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.... they can't hurt us now."

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Yeah, that's a 'high bar' for cabinet appointments and a great campaign slogan.

I'm leery of personal anecdotes because you know, statistical samples and such.

You're overly long last paragraph, to my mind, was delivered by this guy:

"That's The Way It Was And We Liked It "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbU4Cb4A4-o

As I stated, for every dumb-ass there's a ....smart-ass.

LOL!