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He was always the dependable super-patriot and conservative tool until he went to Iraq and left a body part there. Now he's sitting at home, idled and hobbled, and taking the time to learn What The Hell Went Wrong.
Zonker, the guy he has hated for years, is still annoying as hell -- but he knows that the old hippie would open a vein sooner than abandon the old war hawk.
Not like his government. Not like George W. Bush and Team America.
Millions of "good" Conservatives and Republicans are going through this kind of thing right now -- watching the men and women they thought were annointed by God turning out to have all the moral elevation of sewer rats.
To whom can they turn? They seek the truth behind the lies, the fear, the cliches, the inanities and banalities and bunk. They realize these are all scarecrows -- and they are the crows. They have been dispassionately and cynically played, and some have died. As they fed on carrion, their masters dined on pheasant.
What's a conservative, struggling for identity and a sense of certainty, to do? So they watch, and listen, and ask questions, and resolve to understand, this time, what "libbrulism" is really about.
And thus, the New Synthesis is forged -- every tear, every bead of sweat, every drop of blood a hammer strike on the anvil of history, heated to an ardor that can only be quenched by truth, peace, and at long last, justice.
Gary Trudeau has listened closely, and B.D. speaks for a generation.
--p!
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