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On the web site of the Austin-American Statesman today I saw this story:  Some in GOP fear damage by fringe elements.  And I had to laugh, because...what "fringe" are they talking about?  I'm 40, and I can't remember a time when the Republican party not only tolerated but encouraged and relied upon race-baiting, misogyny, homophobia, militant nativism, and Christian supremacy as the bread and butter of its day-to-day political life.

Worried about the fringe?  The GOP is nothing but fringe.  

( I mean, it's practically a car wash, ladies and gentlemen. )