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What Went Wrong?
The New Republic Online ^ | 11.04.04 | Peter Beinart

Posted on 11/04/2004 4:39:10 PM PST by thegreatbeast

The other side may be euphoric, but the intensity of their happiness can't match the intensity of our despair. Honest conservatives, even those who admire President Bush, know he didn't earn a second term. They know he staked his presidency on a catastrophe, and that, by all rights, Iraq should be his political epitaph. Their victory, while sweet, can't be fully enjoyed because it isn't fully deserved.
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But cultural sensitivity is one thing; principle is another. In their attempts to win rural voters, Democrats have already essentially abandoned gun control. That doesn't keep me up at night. But gay marriage is different. The fact that it is widely unpopular cannot obscure the fact that it is morally momentous and morally right...

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To: highflight
Article states: "That doesn't keep me up at night. But gay marriage is different". I cannot imagine why this writer's insomnia problems are any of our concern.

And imagine how twisted he is that in his world...

Streets filled with AK-47 toting gnagbangers: Not a problem.

Two guys can't have the all-important state-sanction ofn their anal recreation: Keeps him up all night.

141 posted on 11/04/2004 9:32:16 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Today the Donkeys need 10 billion gallons of bacitacrin and a whole lot of band-aids.)
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To: thegreatbeast

What went wrong?

Democrats went to live in the Brave New World but nobody followed them.


142 posted on 11/04/2004 10:30:56 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Thanks for the ping!


143 posted on 11/04/2004 11:23:57 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: mercy

Learn how to respond to someone making an honest mistake without resorting to ad hominem attacks... what are you 12 or a liberal?

Some of us, having become spoiled by cable modems, have forgotten what it's like to suffer with dialup. It takes about 2 seconds to load that picture here.

A polite reply would have resulted in an immediate and humble apology. As is, you can go f*** yourself.


144 posted on 11/05/2004 6:50:16 PM PST by flada (At current rates, we can be in Iraq for 118 years to lose the number of troops lost in 'Nam.)
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To: flada

putz


145 posted on 11/05/2004 7:49:39 PM PST by mercy
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To: thegreatbeast

are at least a generation away from figuring out what is happening.


No, they will never understand it, period.

Treat them as such.


146 posted on 11/05/2004 7:51:51 PM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Max Combined

OOOOHHHHHH. Heh heh. right. just testing. heh heh. You passed. Duh. Right. Never mind. Brain now going back to sleep.


147 posted on 11/07/2004 7:02:23 AM PST by jim35 (I'll bet Dashole is Deeply Saddened now!!!)
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