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Deeper still, Mr. Romney surrounds
himself with rich, greedy White men (the
likes of Donald Trump, most notably) and
former George W. Bush neo-conservatives
and warmongers. I have yet to see (with
the exception of the “White” Cuban,
Marco Rubio) any people of color around
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