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Look. I can grok the idea of voting for the guy on the theory that a patrician with zero interest in the issue that animate all us prolifers in flyover country will not, as Obama does, see himself as a missionary sent by the Zeitgeist to provide uplift to the savages. I totally get that people can decide it\u2019s better to have an uncaring plutocrat than an apostate puritan filled with burning conviction.<\/p>\n

What I cannot for the life of me understand is anybody who seriously believes for one second that Romney has an ounce of sincerity in his entire body when he claims to care about the unborn.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"