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I'm an old-fashioned, bleeding-heart, ultra-liberal, atheist, feminist, who has not served the GOP in any way since I learned to think and feel at the same time.
I supported Clinton because, as Paul Krugman documented, she is more liberal than Obama. And, if you're worried about the Democrats' 40 year servitude, incestuous or otherwise, to the GOP you supported the wrong candidate.
Who said the Republicans were the party of ideas over the last decades, that Reagan marked a seminal change? Who voted for FISA, for Dick Cheney's energy bill, took money from Exelon and Goldman-Sachs and oil company executives and a slum landlord named Rezko? Who used the infamous Harry and Louise to criticize a rival's universal health care plan while his own left out millions?
Who claims to want a post-partisan relationship with Republicans to get things done, after making concessions (see above) that so far seem to suggest giving away half the farm before negotiations begin?
Obama is better than McCain on the issues, but that's not saying a whole hell of a lot.
