To me, it is prostituting to the lowest common denominator in the past to have courted votes of that Jesus-jockey batch of malcontents bent upon obliteration of the separation of church and state. Even the Gipper acknowledged that such a separation was a proper one. Disaster that he was, at least the Gip saw right on that situation.
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Strib on Fitzsimmons' dilemma, here.
Talk about whoring, and lo, Lucero, the opposition GOP candidate to DF, posts proof of Fitzsimmons' use earlier of the tactic:
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Lay down with dogs such as Tom Pritchard, you get fleas.
If this Lucero character unhorses Fitzsimmons, it could not happen to a more deserving individual.
When it fits party fashion, wear it. When it falls out of fashion, discard it.
Fitzsimmons. Man of conscience.
Not bending to the expediency of the moment. How exemplary of the GOP we know and love.