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Question of the Day: Should we add irrationality to the list? Does not your abrupt departure mean we were right about at least some of it? If you can't handle the answers, don't ask the freaking question.

Washington Post columnist David Broder says the Republicans should nominate John McCain as president and Mike Huckabee as vice president because both men are principled. What kind of principles does it take for a man to embrace someone who launched personal attacks - all lies - against him in the 2000 presidential campaign? What kind of principles does it take to accept an illegal, immoral war based on lies and corruption and become George Bush's biggest cheerleader? And don't even get us started on Huckabee. Maybe Broder needs to get off the campaign trail and do a bit of good, old-fashioned investigative reporting. If this is the best Broder can come up with, he must have a pretty dim view of this country.

According to the writing of Tammy Bruce, one of the reasons George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq was to free its women. Funny, no one else has ever mentioned this. Found this item on Little Green Footballs and thought it might need a little airing out. Maybe she needs to talk to the Iraqis and find out just how "free" they are now. Bruce was writing about feminism, and of course just couldn't let an opportunity pass without taking a swipe at Hillary Clinton. The right wing has been so afraid of her ever since her husband What's His Name first ran for public office. We are not supporters of Hillary, but she must have something or the hard liners of the GOP wouldn't be bashing her all the time.

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