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Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 6:30 AM

The Moderate Voice: Party, Platform, and Palin: The Triumph of Theocracy in the GOP

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TNR's John Judis, in the Twin Cities for the GOP convention, explains Palin's appeal, and how McCain has sold out to the theocrats : The convention's first two days have been a conservative love-fest for McCain’s vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin. McCain's handlers have also allowed social conservatives free reign in writing this year's Republican platform. McCain strategists have tried to explain Palin's nomination as an attempt to secure discontented Democrats who backed Hillary Clinton. But that's not the refrain heard here among social conservatives who predominate among the delegates. They like Palin because she is one of them. And there is some reason to believe that McCain's choice was partly intended to mollify...
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