"10 days to go? I think it's disgraceful." Libertarian VP candidate William Weld on Clinton's FBI investigation. https://t.co/VRBJF16OCw
— New Day (@NewDay) October 31, 2016
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Weld was, for those too young to remember, essentially chased out of the Republican Party by Jesse Helms during the first Clinton administration. Ol’ Jesse felt that neither Bill C nor Bill W would sufficiently kowtow to the ‘essential traditions of the Senate’, aka the naked bigotry of the hardcore defenders of the Confederacy, unlike that upstanding gentleman Ronnie Reagan. Let the records show that, even twenty years ago, the GOP was the party of out-and-proud racists who’d kneecap each other rather than give up one iota of their ancient tribal prejudices…
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