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I agree in part, and disagree in part, with Cheri Jacobus's post yesterday. I disagree with her that opponents of Sarah Palin have anything to do with race. I agree with her that the Joe McGinniss book is trash. What does this have to do with my view that Rick Perry is right about immigration?

We have reached the state in America that a politics that most Americans deplore, full of derision and insults toward political opponents, no longer allows respectful debate.

Regarding Palin, the issue has nothing to do with race, and much to do with the idea that if one does not like Palin one is supposed to hate her, and use any weapon to defeat or destroy her. Ditto the attacks on Obama, which i! n my view have little to do with race, and much to do with the lack of jobs, and the obsessive attacks from the right against many leading Democrats, white or black.

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