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Thank god less and less people still identify as Republicans, but Christ, it blows my mind that so many can be so stupid. Tristero:

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I want you to think about this for a moment. You're in your local shopping mall, wherever you happen to be in this fair country of ours. And exactly 1/2 of the people walking your way are so completely unhinged from consensual reality that they think Michael Huckabee - Michael Huckabee! who let a convicted rapist go scot-free in order to win brownie points from his rightwing pals - is qualified to be president.

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I know it's an old cliche, but we could put a man on the Moon, yet our general populace can plumb the depths of idiocy at the drop of a hat. The moron quotient in this country scares the shit out of me.