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From where I sit, the GOP handwringing about straw men and phantasmic threats from an Obama presidency illuminates how truly cowardly most conservatives are these days. Quick to discard diplomacy; quick to feed the flesh, blood and bone of other people's children into the machinery of discretionary war; quick to embrace testosterone-laden rhetoric to whip the uninformed public into a froth. They are the last, however, to lead by example. They are the most dangerous form of REMF--the policymaking variant.
America, beware the fool who shrieks at his own shadow.
