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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:00 AM

The right floats off to Neverland. No girls allowed!

In Texas and elsewhere, conservatives soothe the pain of electoral rout with dreams of secession -- and of magical nerd kingdoms.
By Michael Lind

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  • Monday, April 27, 2009 06:54 PM

    Eureka!

    That's it! What to do with the neo-Confederacy? Send them on boats ... to platforms. Although I think they'd be happier anchored off of Cape Town instead of red San Francisco. I knew we didn't want to lose Texas, just the 48% of Republicans there.

    They told the liberals to go back to Russia and the blacks to go back to Africa. Perhaps they should go back to ... their floating platform ... shades of Waterworld.

    —ELYDOG Read ELYDOG's other letters

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