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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
News Republicans. The Fair Tax. A condom.
Posted By Karen Shugart on Tue, May 15, 2007 at 7:51 PM
Yep, at the Republican debate in Columbia.
Word is Duncan Hunter has been the only candidate to enter the media tent so far tonight. We're mostly confined to a tent outside the Koger Center, where the action's actually going to happen. Even during the debate, we'll be watching it on TV inside this tent.
So there's not much about covering this debate that couldn't be done at home -- except at home, the sound would be better (can't hear a damn thing in here right now), and I'd be able to drink a beer to numb the pain that inevitably follows listening to politicians grovel for votes.
But at home I would've missed the protesters. Seeing the throngs of people, clad in T-shirts, chanting and waving signs, I thought, "War protesters?" Nope. Fair Tax advocates.
There was a big tax rally here earlier, with Mr. Fair Tax himself, Neal Boortz, officiating.
Yawn.
I have seen a truck, courtesy of the Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, driving around with the words "Republicans: Mission Accomplished?" An anti-abortion truck has been driving around, you know, one of those with the bloody photos of disembodied embryos or fetuses. Oh, and I also found what appeared to be a condom in the ladies' room toilet. (That's the kind of detail you won't find in The Washington Post.) Hope whoever used it was married.
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