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yellowcanine

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4. The fact that they had to go to the carpetbagger Alan West tells you what you need to know about the
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 09:33 PM
Jul 2020

Texas Republican Party. Kind of reminds me abut the time the Illinois Republicans recruited Alan Keyes to run against Barack Obama for U.S. Senate. Of course, they denied that it had anything to do with the fact that Keyes was black, but everybody else knew that was so much horseshit.
Mother Jones has a lot to say on the subject.
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/07/what-the-return-of-allen-west-says-about-the-delusional-state-of-the-republican-party/

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