pbrower2a
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« on: June 21, 2009, 04:34:58 PM » |
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The GOP established a marriage of convenience between corporate power and religious fundamentalists during the 1990s, a coalition sure to shrink with respect to the rest of America over time. It expected to offer prosperity through tax cuts and the supposed miracles of the right people getting the wealth necessary to power unprecedented growth. The GOP would enforce ideological rigidity to keep people in it on the program -- that is, ideologically pure.With that the GOP would convince enough of the rest to win in enough places.
That's how things seemed to work in 2000, 2002, and 2004 even with razor-thin margins because democracy all but died within the GOP.
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