Lynn Swann Republican, Collaborator and Organic-Empiricism

On 10/22/08; Lynn Swann, the former Football player and one time Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, was trotted out on the Lou Dobbs show for the specific purpose of dismissing Colin Powell's criticism of the Republican party, John McCain and Sarah Palin during Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama.

It wasn't surprising to see Lynn Swann play that historical role of collaborator, that easy way out of embracing the status quo narrative at the expense of annihilating the suppositions of reaction.

Colin Powell's analysis and critique of Republican political practice as exemplified by the Palin-idiocy of God, Guns, Family and the backwardness of Urban, Rural antagonism's was positive. Instead of Lynn Swan invoking and resurrecting positive Republican analysis, the party of Fredrick Douglas. He perpetuated the very zeitgeist that kept him from triumph in 2006.

Is it any wonder contemporary Republican politics runs counter to the organic-empiricism of American-Political Economy?

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