by Robert S. Becker
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
rbecker@cal.net
October 12, 2010
Is it a mystery why a six-pack of rightwingnuts, loonier and less qualified than the Wasilla quitter, are vying for Senate seats while the most principled Democrat, Russ Feingold, faces ruin? Hot-dogging prayer warriors sell better in off years than a modern philosopher king – all of two years after Democrats supposedly routed wrong-way Bush and demon Cheney.
What an irony if the GOP Demolition Party thrives from the very horrendous recession its own self-serving, tax-giveaway, budget-busting wars fomented. Not only is this season’s nasty spawn of Palinistas riding roughshod, I see few progressive antidotes – not one, new, significant, emerging leftwing candidate who champions reason over politics as goon show.
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