"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness."

Dear Haley Barbour, Gary Cleary & Doug Brennan, South Carolina Republican Governor and legislators

At long last, a couple, no, three Republicans with the guts, the 'balls', (if you'll excuse my utter crassness), to stand out from the crowd, to deviate from the beaten track...to show that there are still a (if comparatively) few politicians in that land willing and prepared to go out on a limb and stand for principle; even if (and when) it'll - and it most assuredly will, so the South Carolinian opinion polls declare - inevitably cost them, and big...perhaps even finishing off their public careers.

But hey, if one's career is thus ended, because one allows one's emotions to correspond with the realities one's facing, is confronted with, and let's those have their full force, their true gravitas and bearing - upon one's political views and moreover decisions - then all power to such...and 'thank goodness' there are still such fibre-laden individuals in the land of the living. Eat your heart out, folks: Abe Lincoln and JFK would've been proud of y'all! And so is this lowly kiwi pleb... .

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