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		<title>Mitt gets bested</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excuse me, but if a Republican presidential candidate can&#8217;t turn being rich and paying a low tax rate into a positive, he isn&#8217;t much of a Republican. By contrast, Newt flipped a question about his moral laxity and adulterous behavior into an indictment on the ethical failings of the free press, thus winning over values [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4897&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newt: More to Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A FOX News psychologist explains why Newt Gingrich&#8217;s multiple adulteries, desertions and marriage are really a good thing. Talk about your fair and balanced. I want to be coldly analytical, not moralize, here. I want to tell you what Mr. Gingrich’s behavior could mean for the country, not for the future of his current marriage. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4892&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama vs. Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter who the GOP presidential candidate turns out to be, the person that Barack Obama is running against is himself. It&#8217;s the guy who seduced enough of America to vote for him 3 1/2 years ago in hopes of&#8230;well&#8230; hope. It&#8217;s the guy who has sat in the oval office the past 3 1/2 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4883&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Huntsman probably would make an excellent president. But he never had a chance. He was far too even-keeled, far too intellectually honest and possessed the one quality that the Republican base absolutely cannot tolerate: temperence. E.J. Dionne also observes: My friend and colleague Harold Meyerson and I went to a well-attended Huntsman event in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4878&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8 votes short</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A few days ago someone was complaining to me about something stupid candidate Rick Santorum had said about poverty. He said he had a two-part plan that would eliminate poverty for good: 1) Finish High School 2) Get Married. Now, such a policy would be impossible to implement, impossible to enforce and naive at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4869&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Republicans&#8217; Albert Hobbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the story of a libertarian isolationist–– who favors the legalization of drugs and pot––posing as a Republican presidential candidate. Right! As implausible as it sounds, Andrew Sullivan discusses the fact that Paul does as well as Romney and better than Gingrich when pitted against Obama: The man who is the target of a massive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4863&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not ashamed</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/not-ashamed-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News flash: Rick Perry is not ashamed to admit he&#8217;s a Christian. Wow! That&#8217;s impressive!! Except, it&#8217;s not. Because Michelle Bachman is not ashamed to admit she&#8217;s a Christian. Likewise, Rick Santorum is not covering up the fact he is a practicing Catholic. Newt Gingrich has joined a wide smattering of Christian churches: from Baptist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4857&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Newspeak</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, GOP strategist Frank Luntz gave Republican leaders a workshop on how to speak about the Occupy movement. 1. Don&#8217;t say &#8216;capitalism.&#8217; &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to get that word removed and we&#8217;re replacing it with either &#8216;economic freedom&#8217; or &#8216;free market,&#8217; &#8221; Luntz said. &#8220;The public . . . still prefers capitalism to socialism, but they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4845&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do Rich Guys Run?</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/why-do-rich-guys-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do wealthy businessmen run for President? For one, it&#8217;s a free country. Two, running for high office ain&#8217;t free–it helps to have money and rich pals. Three, in a weak economy business sense is seen as a virtue. Four, voters love the idea of Washington outsiders and political outsiders are better yet. But finally, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4841&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eye of Newt</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/eye-of-newt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich is not only leading in latest polls, he is the one GOP presidential wannabe who has a reputation for being an idea guy. Just one problem: most of his ideas are bad. Take this one: Fire the janitors at schools and have children perform their tasks. Right out of Charles Dickens. The Huffington [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4832&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cain on Libya</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/cain-on-libya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a reason why every one shouldn&#8217;t run for President.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4828&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Attack of the Dwarfs</title>
		<link>http://myapologies.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/attack-of-the-dwarfs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dopey, Gropey and Romney. Are these the best alternative to Obama the GOP could come up with? Heigh-Ho! Heigh-Ho!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=myapologies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2151590&amp;post=4822&amp;subd=myapologies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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