-=> Richard Webb wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    DD> Or his kid - who is an even worse nutter. As Bugs Bunny used to say   
    DD> "What a maroon".   
      
    RW> YEp, but note Matt Taibbi's piece in for February 16 about   
    RW> Romney's meltdown in South Carolina.  HE stated in that   
    RW> column that Paul was the only one who even looked like he   
    RW> might hold his own in a head to head against Obama.  The   
    RW> wack jobs the Republicans are putting up (political insiders all) don't   
    RW> do nearly as well.   
      
    RW> NOt that i"m a fan, but one wonders if they aren't listening to some of   
    RW> the real concerns voiced by all the folks who join the tea party or   
    RW> occupy.  Don't they (the leadership of the Republican party) grasp this   
    RW> at all?   
      
   Well, the tea baggers have been co-opted by the oligarchs as window dressing   
   for their own feather the nest agendas. As for the "Occupy" movement - the 1%   
   seem to think that if they ignore it and chip away at the edges that it will   
   fade away. They may be right. It worked for Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, didn't   
   it???   Bv)=   
      
   They are out of touch or they wouldn't be (current) Repuglicans.   
      
   ... Bureaucracy defends the status quo long after the quo has lost its status.   
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