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I get the sentiment and frustration, but there are capable people

even in today's administration (gulp, I think, maybe??? A few have left) and I'd say the same about Fox -- at least I think. The same can be said about today's GOP. It just is not what it used to be, at least for the moment.

We seem to have blown way past whatever we even used to think mattered in terms of running for office. So be it. By most accounts, she is intelligent and somewhat measured in her comments. I have a few friends who I respect who interacted with her in the W White House and had good things to say. Even though she has no actual governing experience, I'd love to see what somebody with her intelligence and communication skills could do running for something in today's GOP.

I'm not ready to disqualify people just yet from having sincere integrity regardless of what one things of their employer -- although I get the temptation.

[Post edited by fishhoo at 04/06/2020 5:51PM]

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