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| Progressive political gadfly and former Representative Alan Grayson. (photo: Evan Vucci/AP) |
03 March 12
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the Republican demolition derby rolls on, I continue to be amused by
how each remaining contender tries to assume the "small government"
mantle.
Mitt Romney wants a government so small that it provides universal health care.
Newt Gingrich wants a government so small that it will establish a permanent base on the moon.
Rick Santorum wants a government so small that it will fit inside a woman's uterus.
The only real remaining advocate of small government
is Ron Paul. Dr. Paul appears to be disqualified from the Republican
presidential primary, however, because he is unwilling to drench himself
with the blood of our imagined enemies, like Gerard Butler in the movie
"300."
But what about that Jon Huntsman guy? This week three
different people told me, quite independently of each other, how sorry
they were that Governor Huntsman never gained any traction in the
Republican presidential primary.
I told them that they should get over it. Huntsman wasn't any better.
It somehow counts as an act of courage for Huntsman to
have tweeted: "I believe in evolution." Of course, it would have been
more courageous if Huntsman had said that to a Tea Party audience, and
then they tore him limb from limb, thereby disproving the theory of
evolution right before our eyes.
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