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Republican McCain. Republican war. Republican Bush. Republican deficit. Republican McCain. Republican gas prices. Republican McCain. Republican corruption. Republican McCain. Republican lobbyists. Republican seven-years-and-Osama-still-on-the-loose. Republican McCain. Republican Bush. Republican mortgage melt-down. Republican health care. Republican our-military-is-wasted. Republican Saddam-is-gone-and- we're- no-better-off. Republican corporate-pigs-shipping-jobs-overseas.
It should not be hard to turn the R-word into an epithet this year among 'average' Americans, and once we hammered that, the color of Obama's skin and the size of his vocabulary will seem friendly enough.
