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Exactly right....they beat the Dems to it.
Politics is exactly that, exploiting the right opportunities. Whether it's Dems scaring everyone that Repubs want every child to be poorly educated, especially minorities, women, mentally retarded or whatever pc, oppressed segment of the population du jour the statistics can be skewed to demonstrate, because they are sick at throwing money at a failing enterprise? Or that the edlerly will be left to die in the streets poor and without dignity because they try to fix medicare. Or it could be the republicans exploiting recent terrorist events to convince everyone that 'unreasonable' (although it is no longer called unreasonable, instead kindly refered to as 'less restrictive') searches and seizures are neccesary, due process protections need to be reduced, or that anything they've done so far has actually prevented a daggone thing. It could also be the broad brushed stroke used to paint Dems as socialist welfare hungry anti-americans.
What ever floats your boat.
That's politics.
Remember the Paul-Wellstone-come-anti-Bush-rally-memorial? Sometimes you catch a tiger by the toe....sometimes the tiger catches you.
I'm not even sure this qualifies as exploitation though. Where else? Why not NYC? Lots of airports, plenty of convention facilities, in NEED of a good swift kick in the economic backside. and full of voters who could use a little exposure to some different ideas about how things should be. Did the Dems pass it up because they thought it was just 'too gratuitous, and shameful?' I seriously doubt it.
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