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AND then there were six. If the race for the Republican presidential nomination was an Agatha Christie novel, the redoubtable Miss Marple would now be gathering the remaining crew, sans Michelle Bachmann, in a chintz-splattered drawing room to outline her conclusions. The traditional statement, "I expect you are wondering why I have gathered you all here today ..." would be replaced by, "How in the name of Dwight D Eisenhower did you lot get this far?"
Even the fairest of observers would acknowledge the candidates to take on Barack Obama are a remarkable bunch. That's "remarkable, but not in a good way". With not a poor man among them, take your pick between the Mormons (Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman), the twice- divorced guy given to lecturing others on morals, the anti-gay and pro-guns one, the amnesiac one, and Ron Paul, a man who delivered thousands of babies during his career as an obstetrician but whose minimalist attitude to taxation during an economic downturn suggests he was the one born yesterday.See the full content of this document
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Republican Hopefuls Battle to Be the Least Worst Option
Candidate of the moment, as the contest moves to New Hampshire, is Rick Santorum, otherwise known as "Who?" It was "Who?" who defied the pundits to come from nowhere and inch to within eight votes of beating front runner Mr Romney. The Christian evangelical has also received th...
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