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AmyAmy

    • 20 Sep 06
    • 2:48 pm

    Why, oh why does the Democratic Party keep allowing this to occur? This is an old, reliable ploy of the Republican Party. It is exactly the tactic my local Republicans have used for decades to stay in power locally. Every election season in local elections, known reliable Republican supporters run as Democrats, spend extravigantly in the primary to take the nomination then either fizzle in the last round, or take the race and govern like a Republican. Barbara Bush once bragged to one of her neighbors about how they infiltrate the Democratic Party with various ploys.

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