The Weekly Commuter

“God will do the right thing on election day,” Sarah Palin said.
God did do the right thing on election day. He stepped aside and let the American people vote.
And so goodbye.
Goodbye to the Palinistas and the McCainiacs.
Goodbye to Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder.
Goodbye to “There is no God!” and Letter to America 2012.
Goodbye […]

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“The day will come–and it is not far off–when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.”
– George H.W. Bush, 1990

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George Bush speaks American

Shouldn’t you?

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Great post by Timothy Egan of The New York Times pinpointing exactly why Mitt Romney’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination failed:
Anti-Mormon bias on the part of evangelical Christians, who believe the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to be a cult. In the eyes of these evangelicals Mormonism isn’t even a religion, let […]

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The other day NPR was interviewing Republican voters in the state of Northern Florida (as opposed to the state of Northern Minnesota) about the current field of GOP candidates. Who would these voters pick if the primary were held that very moment? The views were decidedly mixed. Most every voter interviewed admitted that he or […]

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