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Pom Pom Princesses The cast of characters that the Republican Party presents to the world, it's social media profile, has at last come fully into the open. We have seen the boorish, nativist side of the GOP in the person of Sean Hannity - the thuggish traffic cop; Rush Limbaugh - the race-baiting gasbag; Glenn Beck - the sequestered child of Josef Goebbels. We have also seen the corporate manager, the ethically challenged Wall Street player who would just as soon see impoverished children go without medical coverage than to have to pay a few dollars more in yearly taxes; and we have witnessed the pastors, reverends and priests, all experts in the revealed word of God, who don't quite get the Sermon on the Mount. With the appearance of kewpie doll Christine O'Donnell onto the national political stage, following in the footsteps of media darling Sarah Palin, the profound neurosis that is the GOP has at last fully emerged from its gristled cocoon. A twisted form of repressed s