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How can they continue to support...

It's always confounding to see people, who we believe should know better, who slavishly supporting a cause, person, or organization when it doesn't seem to be in their best interest. Liberals shook their heads in dismay as throughout the eighties until today a large part of the Democratic base started voting Republican. This group of mostly white men claimed it was for a number of reasons. Be it prayer in school, abortion, patriotism or gun rights, they sent people into political office that continuously voted for legislation that cut programs that benefitted this group. Be it tax legislation that favored people who were comparatively wealthy or a failure to deliver on the social issues they campaigned on, their record didn't help the disenfranchised white voter, and yet they continued to support them. When President Bill Clinton's affair with a white house intern became the all-encompassing story, conservatives pressed the incident until they...