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Originally Posted by Cool Hand
Did you see the same Republican Party convention that I did? I saw the one with Senator Zell Miller from Georgia, a Democrat, giving a short but moving speech about how his party had abandoned him and its ideals in favor of partisanship at a time when it desperately needed to rise about partisanship for the good of the country.
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Okay well, we definitely didn't see the same convention, because I saw a political opportunist who has shifted with the wind more times than is seemly repeat talking points so easily countered that Chris Matthews drove him to blithering idiocy in less than 5 minutes by asking the mildest of questions.
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I saw the one with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking about growing up poor in Soviet-occupied, and then socialist, Austria, and dreaming about and later realizing everything that makes American great and strong--you know, opportunity and all that.
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He skipped a few things, iirc. Tight-knit communities characterized more by cooperation than competition, collective bargaining, workplace loyalty: we would not have the quality of life we have today without them, and as they steadily erode, so does it. The fact is that socialist principles played a large part in creating that privileged American lifestyle.
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I saw the one where the party was smart enough to put forth two terrific speakers who happen to be very much in the middle (hell, even both from the left more so than from the right) as cornerstones for the convention.
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In order to mask its actual extremist, big money, religious right agenda, sure, but that's nothing new. That's what conventions are for.