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The stupidity of some Salon readers is breathtaking. The moderates and even the liberals of SC (and other regions that get reflexively looked down on) recoil when we are made the punchlines of moron city-slickers' cliched "jokes."
U pluribus unum, y'all.
One thing, though: Don't blame all of the negativity in contemporary American politics on Rove. The Bushies' earlier (and better, in an evil way) ratfucking "genius" cut his political teeth working for that "former governor" whose son is Mike Campbell. Take a look at how Carroll Campbell's campaign against Max Heller for the Fourth District Congressional Seat led to push polling as we know and love it today--and see what name first came to prominence when he suggested that particular poll.