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can be the swing voters. Indeed the more bushco is demasked, I suspect some hardcore conservs will become more moderate (as in ... well I don't like x but I still support y) and then it is only a matter of time before some of those folks, too, can be turned. Most Americans are not ideologically driven - just wanting to believe that those we elect are not SO evil to intentionally drive us into the ground, and thus they cling to the belief that we just don't understand the big picture of what the admin is doing (protecting themselves, if you will, from the cognitive dissonance between believing that folks, including elected ones, are basically good - vs the reality of what is becoming clear about todays DC based GOP).
The arrogance of absolut power by the GOP has led them to legislate more and more on their ideology AND their cynical corruption. The confluence of ugliness that is being revealed from many directions in the media (and it had to get real prevelant and real bad to finally be covered) - is doing more to push these folks into cog disonance than anything we could say. Just a matter of finding when various individuals are finally "open" to hear/learn more about the realities of the admin and congressional actions.
I used to fear that when things turned it would just be against the Bushadmin - but that the hold of the extreme GOP would remain. Now, it is beginning to appear that the arrogance of bushco - is baring the ugliness of the extreme GOP in DC - and that leaves us with grassroots work - to turning the tide not just against bushco - but against the whole darn party. I am hopeful that over the next 2-10 years there will be some serious political realignments happening in this country. Courtesy of the 8 awful years of bushco.
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