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At the finish line, there were no high-school marching bands, no pyrotechnics – not even a perky young TV reporter cloyingly asking the all-purpose how-do-you-feel question. Instead, at 1:26 pm Sunday afternoon, I rapturously luxuriated in a heavenly choir serenading me with the sounds of silence, as a blessed sense of peace washed over my body. After more than 60 hours of eye-glazed communion with the three major cable news networks (enough time to watch every episode from all three seasons of "Mad Men" twice), the television set was mercifully off. I had set out on this ...
This figurative question has been asked quite a bit in the wake of last Tuesday's historic election. What does it mean to be a member of the Grand Old Party? That you favor small government over large? That you cling to guns and God more than your Democrat neighbors? That the issue of abortion trumps all else? Perhaps all three reasons apply. Whatever the reason for Republican affiliation, a clear side-effect of this political condition became apparent in the waning days of the campaign, and has taken hold of the party faithful: Anger. Consider this now-famous exchange from a McCain rally. The ...
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