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GARRISON KEILLOR
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What you don't want, throw out
Only February and already it's a fine political year here in our great roisterous republic with a carnival cast of colorful drones and smiley eminences huffing and puffing across the field of battle and tumbling off the cliff, leaving two serious contenders in each party. Thanks to all the candidates for their nerve. Hurray for democracy, which has been so generous to keyboard wretches like me. And to all the soreheads who say the presidential campaign season is too long, a big Bronx cheer (pppppppppppppp). Not when it's this interesting, it isn't.
A leader of the new west
At a conference in the mid-1960s, Nevada Republican chair George Abbott told a national political reporter, "Barry Goldwater's nomination shifted the center of power in the Republican party about one thousand miles to the east. It's not moving back."
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