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kpete

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Thu Aug 23, 2012, 02:41 PM Aug 2012

How on earth is this a great debate? It’s actually an effort to avoid one.

Ever since Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, it’s been widely claimed that this ensures a “great debate” pitting two starkly different ideological visions over the future against one another. But it’s now clear that the GOP ticket doesn’t want a great debate at all. Their entire strategy is designed to obscure the true ideological differences between both sides.

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How on earth is this a great debate? It’s actually an effort to avoid one. Anyone who continues to grant Romney and Ryan the presumption of being serious about engaging in a great clash of visions is only helping them avoid accountability for the true nature of their actual vision.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-morning-plum-no-romney-and-ryan-dont-really-want-a-great-debate/2012/08/21/821297d0-eb7a-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_blog.html

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How on earth is this a great debate? It’s actually an effort to avoid one. (Original Post) kpete Aug 2012 OP
This will be the true meaning of bringing a knife to a gun fight. It will be such a FAIL...n/t monmouth Aug 2012 #1
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