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Old 02-08-2009, 05:57 PM   #46
classicman
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Originally Posted by Redux View Post
Most Americans don't hate Bush.

They simply lost confidence is his policies and practices as they saw how it impacted them personally and the country as a whole.

And the Republican party is the embodiment of those policies....so rigid in its ideology, particularly among the social conservative base that dominates the party at the grass roots, that it is not very welcoming to the vast majority of Americans who are in the center politically.
I think the party is monetarily dominated by those right wing extremists, not the grassroots.
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