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McCain's big running-mate rollout

Romney and Giuliani helped supply Wednesday night's "paranoid" conservative politics, while Sarah Palin showed she's no Dick Cheney.
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Thursday, September 4, 2008 06:13 AM

    It is sad, really.

    Even though the republicans know nothing about this women, they are already treating her like the second comming of Mary Mother of Jesus. It just shows how a large segment of the American population has lost their minds.

    I attribute this to their inability to cognitively smooth* the disparity between reality, and how they think things 'shoud' be.

    *Cognitive smoothing: my term for reducing cognitive disonance.

    —FredRated Read FredRated's other letters

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