What It Means To Be A Republican

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If this has been posted before I apologize. I ran across it today and thought it made some excellent points.

Snippets from "What It Means To Be A Republican" by Larry Beinhart (author of "Wag The Dog")
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0219-20.htm

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The vice president shoots you in the heart and in the face. Then you apologize for all the trouble it’s caused him. That’s what it means to be a Republican.

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Alberto Gonzales helped come up with the program that rejected the Geneva Conventions, that permits torture, that says that the president is above the law and that “I was only following orders” should be a defense against a charge of war crimes. Ah, if only the Nazi war criminals who were hung at Nuremberg had Gonzales there to defend them. The president nominates Gonzales to be his new Attorney General. He is confirmed with little debate and no outrage. That’s what it means to be a Republican.

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What it implies is that Republicans can’t be dealt with as if reason and facts will sway them. Because it wont. It’s hard for reality based people, regular Democrats and Liberals to understand that.

What it let’s us know is that reality based people, Democrats, Liberals, real Conservatives, old-fashioned Republicans and non-profit Christians have to take more vigorous and rigorous stands. Or reality and real American values and the American landscape will disappear, not just temporarily, but forever.

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1. I love it!

[WePurrsevere]

2. Thank you. The last 2 paragraphs were particularly interesting IMO. n/t

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