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I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

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I Am America (and So Can You!)
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The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
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Recent Comments:

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Re: Serious Question ( / )

Richard Lugar (nope, he's 76)
Chuck Hagel (62, 66 in 2012 - a possibility)
Peter T. King (64, 68 in 2012 - on his purported fiscal conservatism
Ron Paul will be back
Walter "Freedom Fries" Jones
Gov. Mark Sanford (SC)
Gov. Charlie Crist (FL)
Gov. Bobby Jindal (LA)
Chuck Grassley (65, 69 in 2012, nope)
John Ensign, (50, 54 in 2012 - likely)
John Kyl (66, 70 in 2012, nope)
George Voinovich (72, 76 in 2012, nope)
Gov. Mitch Daniels (IN)
Gov. Tim Pawlenty (MN)
Kit Bond (69, 73 in 2012, nope)
Michael Bloomberg
Jeff Sessions (62, 66 in 2012)

There's the start of the brainstorm of the potentially ambitious. So many of the Congresscritters are either headed for defeat or have aged out.

by TarheelDem (editor@thepartielion.com) on
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Yea, I am just a periodic commenter (here probably 12 times a day though) I read his site all the time as well, and was starting to get worried..... Thought you may have some inside-scoop.

I am actually rather sorry to hear you don't know either. I was hoping he just got burnt out or something.

by benjamink on
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Re: Republicans ( / )

no probably a bruise, doncha think

by americanforliberty on
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very strange that you should ask. I'm worried about him. We all know him through email, but he is anonymous, and he has fallen off the face of the Earth. I almost sent out a global email an hour ago to see if anyone really knew who he was and whether he was okay.

by BooMan on
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No question, if this election goes big for the Dems, the GOP will have to make a decision on whether to be a perpetual regional party or to rebuild, starting in the upper Midwest, the suburbs, and the Northeast. Gov. Rell could help, but it is almost impossible to see the remnant of the GOP (almost exclusively from the south, border states, and plains states) learning their lesson in the first election cycle.

by BooMan on
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Hey Boo - Totally off topic, but do you have any idea what has happened with Senate Guru?

by benjamink on
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Re: Republicans ( / )

How do we protect him? America's best leaders never make it.

by MNPundit on
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I have never understood all the talk of the Governator. I mean really, it would take amending the Constitution... For goodness sakes, these idiots in office now have chosen to ignore it, and that has proven way easier than I anticipated, but to amend it? For Arnonld? I just don't see it.

Id make almost any wager that it won't happen.

by benjamink on
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there are good reasons to undercut the Michigan thing but I think it is because she is dense.

by BooMan on
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I don't see Schwarzenegger going anywhere, even if he was a native-born citizen. His track record here in California has not been very good.

by robertdsc on
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Palin.
She's running for 2012 right now with both of her pregnant feet. Otherwise why undercut the Michigan thing?

by Joe Bourgeois on
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Re: Republicans...IT'S TIME TO ATTACK... ( / )

'Obama should be way up in the polls. Why is he not?
Because his strategy is weak and passive and he refuses to go on the attack'. Greenlover you seem unaware that Obama has been attacking McCain on the economy for weeks and began a series of ads and a website On the Keating Five scandal the same day that McCain/Palin began rehashing the guilt by association tactic of Ayers and Wright.

by Multisect on
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Thune strikes me a politician with a future. Pawlenty? I see him as a sacrificial lamb.

by BooMan on
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I predicted last year that Gingrich would be the nominee. If not Gingrich, I predicted McCain. I still think Gingrich would have beat McCain if he had gotten in early enough to raise money.

There was a point in the absolute nadir of McCain's campaign (Sept. 2007?) when I thought Gingrich had an opening. But he didn't take it. I knew there was no way that Romney or Huckabee could win, for different reasons. The base would never embrace Romney and the money would never embrace Huckabee. McCain had the press, and that was enough, with the money to match.

by BooMan on
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Re: Republicans ( / )

What Bill Ayers and other Weathermen did was evil and counterproductive, but it was over 35 years ago. He served time and has not been warranted for arrest since.
When does the sin of association for legal activities come off those who know Mr. Ayers, even those like Sen. Obama who see him on only a few widely spaced occasions? Should those who associate with Gordon Liddy be condemned also? Is it OK for Mr. Ayers to have friends and colleagues now or his he to be shunned for life? I once worked at a state university as a janitor and came into contact with ex cons because government janitor jobs are a traditional placement for those who might not be welcomed by other employers. I haven't been arrested once or even ticketed but do I bear an onus because I tried to get along with those guys?

by Multisect on
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Pawlenty or (eeeeech!)Thune? Just thinking of "popular" but little known (nationally) republicans up my way.

by conglomerNation on
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you can run for three terms in California?

by BooMan on
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Then Granholm would make a serious bid for VP, assuming Biden doesn't come back.

by michaelmt (MrMichael_t@yahoo.com) on
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Naw, here are the candidates ( / )

Romney, Gingrich, and Palin...I'd bet on Gingrich, who will lose of course, but it will be good for the guy's ego.

by michaelmt (MrMichael_t@yahoo.com) on
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Re: Serious Question ( / )

If Repugs had some sense they'd get behind Governor Rell.

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on
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