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In 1861, a contemporary critic of South Carolina's secession said that "the state was too small to be an independent country and too large to be an insane asylum."

I see nothing has changed.

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Dec 28, 2023Liked by Dean Obeidallah

Wow! Thank you, Dean, for being a truth-speaker. I was not aware of exactly how bad she is, but I did know that she is pro-abortion ban. How exactly does that work with government allowing freedom??? And as a woman, who is aware that there is normally a sound reason for getting an abortion, I can't fathom how a woman could be so cruel to other women. I hope a huge number of people see this column and are able to take in the truth.

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She said she would support Trumputin, if he was the nominee. Not a single independent thinker in the bunch except for Christie, and I am not a fan.

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Amen, brother!

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Dec 28, 2023Liked by Dean Obeidallah

If she promotes states rights so much, she should be cheering Colorado's Supreme Court decision to remove the Embarrassment from the primary ballot. IJS.

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Right you are!! But they’re all hypocrites, and with hypocrites there’s never any consistency.

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They only like States Rights when the state chooses the direction they want.

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...& MAINE ‼️💙👏👍☺️

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Best kind of Christmas present!

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Good point!

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Republicans will argue states rights or anything else that allows them to do what they want when they want regardless of even their own voters

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There’s really no excuse for this. She’s trying to further embrace the far-Right as she moves up in the polls, but she’ll lose her moderate base in the process. You can’t beat Trump with MAGA talking points. Sad all around that the cause of the Civil War can be a gotcha question in 2023.

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She is no different from Vivek in that sense, both opportunists and racists.

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Not one Repub is fit to serve. Anywhere.

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I’d say they all deserve to rot in hell, but I’m not sure the devil would take them.

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Haley also stated that she would enact the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" which fundamentally dismantles our Constitution. Nothing "moderate" about that. She, like every Republican candidate is running to either be Trump's VP, or in his cabinet.

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I didn't hear that one. I can't even believe she would do that. Holy crap!

They're all the same. 🙄

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She’s an extremist. I can’t imagine how a woman of color becomes an ideological extremist but she is and she, as always, will say whatever gets her the votes of the very worst of us. I don’t understand why people have been fooled by this phony for so long

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The south's own Alexander Stevens set the record straight when he said outright, slavery was the reason for the civil war: "Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition."

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🤢🤮

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The Republican Party, especially the "Party of Lincoln" is dead. The GOP is blatantly racist, sexist, xenophobic, agists, self-hating, fear-based, warmongering, closeted pedophiles, rapists, and domestic terrorists in the name of religion.

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"Haley—like Donald Trump has repeatedly done—is pandering to the white supremacist GOP base." Fixed that for you, Dean.

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Remember how often Nikki Haley embarrassed us at the UN! And how she was called crazy. Same Nikki Haley!

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There is no good rep! The only one I remember that was quite acceptable and smart was john mac cain. The most infamous one just close to von trump is bitchy mitch mac connel. Shameful

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There are no good Republicans.

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The only good Republican is a dead one.

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Some Republicans at least defend the Constitution, the way Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinginger and Mitt Romney do. Even Mike Pence did the right thing on January 6th. Some Republicans are not as completely bad as Trump, Jim Jordan, MTG, Rand Paul, Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton are.

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The network evening news outlets are staunchly glossing this over. Either they don't think average Americans are capable of understanding this detail, or they're afraid to report the truth.

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