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Clearer Now?

By The Daily Dish
May 15 2007, 12:36 PM ET

A reader writes:

I thought you might enjoy one of your postings in Live Ink:

     It would be a boon
         to those
             of us
                who are alarmed
                   by what
            Hagel
               has called
             the hijacking
                of the Republican Party.

With sectarian
         murders
            rising
               in Baghdad,
        I can see
            internal GOP chaos
               in the fall,
        as the current crop
            of candidates
               try
           to decide
          if to support
             the president
         (and
            face
               potential electoral doom)
            or
                to run directly
                   against his war policy.



   Under those circumstances,
        a war-critic like Hagel
           could be
              very well-positioned.

     A Nebraska-New York ticket
         could also win many votes
            from Blue State Republicans
                and Independents,
        and reduce
           the Rove Christianist machine
              to a rancid rump.

     Money
          quote
             from Hagel:

     "The president
         may find himself standing alone
            sometime this fall
          where Republicans
             will start
                to move away,
        and you're starting
            to see trapdoors
                and
             exit signs already
            with a number
                of Republicans.

     The 11 House Republicans
          that went
             to see him
                speak
            for more than
                just 11 House Republicans.

     That's just
           the tip
              of the iceberg."

     My advice:
        don't run
            as Independents.

     Run
          as Independent Republicans.

     We may have
         to split
            this party
         in order to save what's left
            of it.

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