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"Freedom can be preserved in the face of a continuing process only up to a certain point. Beyond that point one inevitably becomes the slave of events. The logic of the process takes charge, upsetting all independent plans and calculations.
According to this Sunday's New York Times, "..Republicans (say Rick Perry) either gets in and gets through the gantlet of the first month..or he's got this terrific flameout." "There's no middle ground," says Matthew Dowd, a former Bush strategist.