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Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:00 AM

No longer the "Right Man"

Conservatives are raging against Bush to hide the utter failure of their ideology.
By Sidney Blumenthal

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  • Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:21 AM

    Pull up a chair, we're in for a treat.

    Unfortunately for us lefties, conservatives will still vote for Republicans in 2006 and 2008. In spite of the implosion of the neocon adventures both at home and abroad, conservatives are still worried about swarthy Middle Easterners attacking us and they still believe that the only people capable of protecting them from the boogeymen are Republicans.

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