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" (Optional soundtrack to this blog post....)      GREENVILLE, S.C. \u2014 In the background, things are getting very down and extremely dirty here: It&amp;#039;s not clear how many people received the fake email, though at least two members of the South Carolina GOP Executive Committee, who did not want to be named, were among those who found the missive in their inboxes this morning. If the Republican party ever returns to sanity, it&amp;#039;s going to look at how important South Carolina became to it since the mid-1960&amp;#039;s as the reason why it went so far off the rails. I mean, Jesus: Lee Atwater? Joe Wilson? Jim DeMint? The smears against John McCain&amp;#039;s children in 2000. Too small to be a country, too big to be an insane asylum, but just the right size for an empire of ratfking. It&amp;#039;s going to be pretty damned funny going forward to listen to these slanderous yahoos whine about the awful &amp;quot;Chicago-style politics&amp;quot; of the Obama campaign. If Massachusetts actually had been as important down through the years to the national Democratic party as the Republicans have made it out to be, and as important to the Democrats as South Carolina actually is to the fundamental identity of the Republicans, then I&amp;#039;d be a much happier fella, I&amp;#039;ll tell you. EARLIER: John H. Richardson on the Truth About Marianne Gingrich and Pierce on Nightline "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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