If you liked George W. you'll love his clone

I am here to tell you that as the nearest possible thing to being Bush's exact clone, I am entitled to some credit that I wouldn't otherwise deserve. Okay so I had to suck up to the right wing evangelistas, I'm still entitled to my reputation as a reasonable man. Okay I had to go silent on torture, that was the deal that got me this far for crying out loud, what do you expect me to do? Stick to my principles? Hang tough? Put my money where my mouth is? I have an election to win and to do that I have to make a lot of people like me enough to vote for me, end of story. Problem is though, since my stated position is that I would continue Bush's unpopular war in Iraq and continue to threaten nuclear war with Iran ("Bomb bomb bomb, bomb Iran...), well that's not very compelling to most people.

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