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While I usually consider Scott’s coverage of Things Dubya and Republican to be more than a bit over the top, I share his disgust with (alleged) plans to have the cornerstone laying of the new WTC site held during the Republican National Convention 2004 in NYC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Heavy-handed politicizing of an event like that is not going to serve the GOP, or the President, well. Nor should it. People who would be impressed by it are probably already solidly in Bush’s camp. People who are against Bush are just going to be further polarized. And those riding the fence are just as likely to be disgusted enough to, if not vote for whatever hypothetical Dem is running, then simply sit things out.<\/p>\n

Americans are very secular. But they also have a profound sense of the sacred. You risk offending that at your political peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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