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435. Talk as tough as you fight

By Joel Jacobsen

It was refreshing to travel to South Carolina, the eighth most conservative state in the country.... Yeah, I know, I figured it would score higher than #8, too, but that's what Gallup says its surveys find.  The campaign signs don't just identify candidates as "Republican" but as "conservative Republican."  Segregationist Strom Thurmond's child (one of the white ones) is running for Congress, and so is a weirdly ruby-lipped, dewlappy retired lieutenant colonel whose slogan is "Don't hope for a better America... demand it!"  They're both up against the child (white, judging from the pictures) of a former governor.  Chuck Berry once wrote, and Keith Richards frequently performed, a song about the last one's father (or maybe it was the grandfather)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on May 26, 2010 (boomark / email).