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Dear Nathan Bedford – I think that your analysis is spot on except for your use of the term RINO.
The Republican Party was founded in Ripon, Wisconsin on the ruins of and by a group of Horace Greeley promoted Fourierian socialists.
This communitarian group had been known as the Wisconsin Phalanx. This is disappointing because you obviously have a great working knowledge of American history. But regurgitating the Leftist propaganda that we have been fed by Progressive (Transcendentalist) Leftist professors with a slightly Conservative spin actually does a great disservice to our Framers. Many of whom had plans for Gradual Emancipation. Political Correctness arose from the attempt to cover up the failure of immediate manumission.
The actual truth of the founding of the Republican Party can be found at the Ripon, Wisconsin’s Chamber of Commerce’s website:
//www.riponmainst.com/riponmainst/hist.html
I would also suggest your taking a look at John Noyes, “The History of American Socialisms” – free at Google books:
//books.google.com/books/about/HISTORY_OF_AMERICAN_SOCIALISM.html?id=cCgdBuhYcy0C
I love your nom de plume.
My G-Great Grandfather employed another of this country’s greatest military minds Stonewall Jackson.
Col. Smith also hung my nom de plume. The tragedy was that (he) they stopped at one.
Many more should have been hung for treason and misprision of treason……………….
Regards,
Shubel

I NOMINATE THIS FOR FREEPER POST OF THE YEAR:

“An empty suit is like a soufflé, when the air goes out the whole thing collapses. Obama is the classic empty suit who has been propelled since infancy through the best schools (from the most exclusive prep school in Hawaii to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law), bestowed with great honors (president of the Law Review, Nobel Peace Prize) and into posts (instructor at University of Chicago Law School, Illinois State Senator, United States Senator, President of the United States of America) for which he was qualified only by virtue of his race and his radical ideology. The whole contrivance imploded last night as the air went out of Obama’s campaign in one great rancid and embarrassingly public fart.”

Excellent analysis as usual, sir. This is a melee of the first order. The smoke and dust of battle is just now stirring. Romney and his team have to be as aggressive and ruthless as Nathanael Green, Grant, Sherman, Halsey, Patton, LeMay, et al...

Obama will always have a large share of support from the 47% takers who feed off the makers, and he is counting on that. We saw a rare glimpse of Obama without his mask on last night. He is uncomfortable being challenged in any way. This is not how he was brought up. I also still maintain that he could personally care less if he wins another term or not, which belies his outward display on stage last night. His hardcore syncophants are the driving force for their poster boy. They will not retire quietly. Debate performances do help set the tone but rarely offer the decisive knockout blow. I have no real expectations that Romney and the GOPE are willing to drop their usual self inflicted congeniality to the opposition in order to win. This will be their undoing if they go the way of McCain from here on in.

To paraphrase Josey Wales, Romney and his team need to get mad dog mean, with a happy warrior smile, of course.