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The GOP Advantage: Stupid Is Easy. Smart Is Hard.
It took me a while to find it, but I thought you’d enjoy this little nugget from October 5, 2004, dug out of the Mahablog Archives. Why We’re Screwed Bush’s years as a good-time Charlie and heavy drinker may actually help him draw a contrast to Kerry. Bush led a more “normal” life as a young man, spending his college and postgraduation years partying, ...
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Crooks and LiarsThe Mahablog: The GOP Advantage: Stupid is easy. Smart is hard. The G Spot: Health Care, Obama, and the perils of post-partisanship Faithful Progressive: New McCain ads based upon other classic Russian novels The Root: It Breaks A Village Right Wing Watch: “New Evangelical” Warren just like the old ones. He calls pro choice pols “holocaust deniers.” Ezra Klein: The rich define the rich ...

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The Sideshow — Just in case you forgot, the GOP labelled Gore as elitist, they labelled Kerry as elitist, and they were going to label Obama as elitist no matter what. They were not waiting for Hillary Clinton to give them their talking points. ...

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