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shenmue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 01:41 PM
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3. No
First of all, they never will. Second, not many of them exist.

They are too afraid to lose favor with the puritanical rightist base to which the Far Right also appeals. They don't want to appear so moderate that their public gives up on the word Republican altogether.

If they're so disgusted with their own party, they should have drummed up the guts to actually switch parties a long time ago. If they're only willing to dissent from their own party at the last minute, or only when things have gotten really bad, that doesn't give me much faith in their collective initiative and backbone.

I'd still be very suspiscious of them.
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