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" This is becoming something of a theme today. Republicans who were prospering when the party was riding high, and who stood by when all the forces that have produced an incredible week of inhuman cruelty and ignorance from Wingnuttia were gathering, and who were not shy about using those forces to their political advantage, now would like the world to know how really badly they feel about the whole thing, and how much they&amp;#039;d like to be allowed back into respectable company. If it&amp;#039;s not David Frum, ex-warmonger, it&amp;#039;s Steve Schmidt, former Sarah Palin enabler soon to be immortalized on film as The One Honest Man in the McCain campaign. Or, now, it&amp;#039;s Ken Mehlman, who came out of the closet, and now feels really, really bad about all the gay-bashing that helped his old boss win re-election in 2004: &amp;quot;At a personal level, I wish I had spoken out against the effort,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;As I&amp;#039;ve been involved in the fight for marriage equality, one of the things I&amp;#039;ve learned is how many people were harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved. I apologize to them and tell them I am sorry. While there have been recent victories, this could still be a long struggle in which there will be setbacks, and I&amp;#039;ll do my part to be helpful.&amp;quot; In other words, I&amp;#039;m an opportunistic &amp;#039;ho who would have done anything, including flog myself atop Karl Rove&amp;#039;s desk, to win an election, but, now that the winds seem to have changed, and I have to make a living, I would like to be forgiven for having been a self-loathing &amp;#039;ho for a party that I helped gain for political advantage the hatred of people who would have broken my head with a brick if they&amp;#039;d known the truth of who I am. Tell your story walking, pal. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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