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How low will we sink? Running on torture in IL-06

Imagine you’re heading into an election, and that you are facing  deep hostility,a public which blames the elite political class for the expensive, bloody fiasco it got us all into, and decries inaction to end the war, and the assault on American values like valuing human rights.  

What kind of candidate would you think the GOP might head into an election in this environment? If you said someone who has voiced some support for armed forces involvement in the Abu Ghraib human rights violation scandal, you might get a few laughs. "They’re playing to their 24-percenter base," you might say, and even then, you’d have your doubts, between laughs.

But in IL-06, the party in DC is lining up behind just such a candidate. Only here’s the catch: She’s a "Democrat," one of us.


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