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JHB

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31. Point taken, but how much cred do Palin and Walker really have where they would need it...

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Reply #21)

Wed Nov 14, 2012, 04:01 PM

Nov 2012

i.e., with the Republican House members? Maybe if either one of them were considered towering paragons respected by all (and able to call in or bestow many favors), but that's not exactly their situation, is it?

It's past wishful thinking and off into deepest "what are you on?"-istan.

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+1 (Took the words out of my mouth.) cthulu2016 Nov 2012 #19

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Point taken, but how much cred do Palin and Walker really have where they would need it... JHB Nov 2012 #31

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