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Porco Rosso Posted: Tue, Sep 27 2011 10:28 PM

about some republican senator from Wyoming? All of a sudden there's a "national movement" for him to run for President? Anyone find this odd?

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Sep 28 2011 4:53 PM

Never heard of him. Not gonna happen. He's 80, if you mean Al Simpson.

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DanielMuff replied on Wed, Sep 28 2011 10:35 PM

source?

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I originally saw it on Fox Business, but here's an article about it from MoJo

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/alan-simpson-president-movement-comes-age

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Autolykos replied on Thu, Sep 29 2011 8:53 AM

Translation: the Establishment is desperate to find someone, anyone! to shut up Ron Paul.

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Marissa replied on Fri, Sep 30 2011 12:45 PM

Enter Chris Christie, the other guy they're trying to use to diminish Paul.

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jay replied on Mon, Oct 3 2011 6:46 AM

Alan Simpson is still alive? Like Autolykos said, RP doesn't tow the GOP line and a lot of people like him, so they need to come up with someone to counteract it.

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