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So let me get this straight. The guy works all his life and spends over $100,000 on... this?

Well. Let me say one thing - I don't think many of you realize how close, even in terms of wording, this is to similar letters-to-editor in the good old US of SR. My grandfather could write a more convincing and more genuine piece about how he is a communist. Does that justify the crimes commited by the regime?

I'm not trying to say here that the Republican party is essentially bad. It's had good things and bad things about it, and certainly isn't the worst that's out there - BUT that is no reason to profess love for it in this way, turning a blind eye to many of its rather nasty failings and ignoring the injustices it has often produced. Especially when all of this is based on personal experience.

ANY AND EVERY member of ANY AND EVERY party on this planet could write a similar piece of garbage about their respective position. Why do you think they're parties? What, even Nazis were all based around "let's come together and be evil" ideology?

Listen, I respect this guy and his life story, but I have no respect to where this leads to. If the American dream is to make enough in your life to produce a piece about how marching in line with a major political platform is equated with the goodness of life and morality, count me out. And if this story is true, I would postulate that the guy has lived a good life to blow all his goodness one one stupid, selfish, ego-pumping action that suddenly elevates his flailing sense of self as he nears the end of his life. If you're so good, why don't you spend that $104,655.60 on something better than that? You could feed thousands of people in the world for a year on that money. Okay, fine, you don't want to feed some [insert racist slur] in [insert 3rd world country]? That money could pay for several complex operations to deserving people who could use it right there in the states. You could put that in a scholarship fund and let several deserving kids go to college. And guess what, you'd produce more smart, ethical, thinking people that way than you ever would with a national newspaper ad, too. But is that really the point of this little writeup?

Nope, march in line. Einz, zwei, Heil Republikan. Get ahead, be free to spend money. On a political agenda. While pretending to be the height of morality and selfnessness and patriotism itself. Disgusting and sad. I've no respect for this whatsoever.