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Old 11-03-2009, 10:51 AM   #14
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Would Reagan have sanctioned a Scozzafava as a candidate on the Republican ticket?
No. But he would not have left the party to endorse a third party canidate.

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If the party is splitting into "Sunnis" and "Shias," what and who are the so-called Republican leadership that you speak of?
The republican leader that denounced Palin for endorsing a third party candidate was John Boehner, Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives

The Sunni/Shia split in Islam was over who was the true heir to Muhammad. To me, the rift in the GOP appears to be over which philosophy is the true heir to Reagan.

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