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Reply #21: I don't mean to get all Thomist/ Scholastic on you, but this gets cut by Occam's razor [View All]

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JVS

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Sun Jan-27-08 10:07 AM
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21. I don't mean to get all Thomist/ Scholastic on you, but this gets cut by Occam's razor

It's too risky, too intricate, too unpredictable. I think a much more simple explanation is in order. The stuff about "party of ideas" simply points to the fact that the republicans aggressively pursued an ideologically driven agenda, and that from 1994 on were dictating the direction of both policy and discourse. In a way it is an attack on Clinton's administration for being put on and kept on the defensive, but the idea that he could know that it was bait to be taken is way too steeped in hindsight.

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