by William A. Cook

CounterPunch

09/04/04

The Republicrats have now met, the unwashed in Boston manipulated by the managers of the Kerry command that allowed no dissent from the predetermined platform, a platform that supported the war (although an estimated 90% of the delegates attending decried the war according to Joe Scarborough's unquestioned authority on 'Hardball' 8/31) and supported Bush's total acquiescence to Sharon's shattering of the 'Road Map' (an acceptance that guarantees the continuation of terrorist acts against America), and the pin-stripers in New York controlled by a well-oiled machine driven by Karl Rove who allowed 'moderates' (an oxymoron in any language) like Giuliani, McCain, and Cheney to speak about the inclusiveness of the Republican Party even as it forced all to rally around a preset platform that denied access to thousands upon thousands of Americans. 'Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few,' as Huxley notes, and he spoke in 1958!"

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp