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>Now you're just deliberately misreading me. My argument is fairly simple:
>all other things being equal, give me a Clintonian Democrat over a Nixonian
>Republican any day of the week. How that implies a "preference for the
>counterfactual over the real" is beyond me, and perhaps thankfully so.
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Well, my preference, based on what the two guys actually did, is the reverse. Of course I'd rather go out drinking with Bill than Dick.
jks
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