The contest for the Republican nomination is stuck in the rogues’ gallery stage
Fredericksburg, Virginia
An election year in America is just that — a year. The 2012 race has just kicked off and still has eight months to go, but it is already having a critical effect on me: keeping up with the contest for the Republican nomination makes me want to run away and join the ladies’ auxiliary of the French Foreign Legion.

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