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Heaven for Atheists? Better Read the Fine Print

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Dark_Falcon5/26/2013 8:27:58 am PDT

re: #251 Targetpractice

A lot of folks told themselves there was no way that Republicans could get one of their own elected after they’d screwed the pooch so badly with Clinton’s impeachment. Then they told themselves 4 years later that there was no way that a Republican president whose war effort was going so poorly and whose economy was barely limping along could get reelected.

All it takes is finding an “Aw, shucks” Republican who can capitalize on the electorate’s ability to overlook the party’s very obvious problems when the guy in front of them looks like “one of us.”

The war didn’t look like it was going poorly in 2004, and George W. Bush had the advantage of incumbency. It is also a fact that Kerry was a much weaker candidate than Obama.