Oregon Republicans revel in new-found unity

Jeff Mapes, Oregonian:

Oregon Republicans held a lovefest in Newberg Thursday to celebrate how unified they are after a competitive primary for governor that avoided mudslinging.

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    The best part of reading the Mapes article are the wild responses posted which totally belie the unity theme. As one of the first responses says... "unity-smunity!"

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    Heh. No kidding. But then, comments are always like that, which means they're consistent, if not unified.

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    This is interesting. Alley isn't the mud slinging type. Too nerdy. If anyone had tried, it would have been obvious who was starting it. One possible lesson is that mud slinging goes on in campaigns because there isn't one person that will refrain.

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    I wonder if State reps. Greg Smith of Heppner and Bob Jenson of Pendleton were invited to the luncheon?

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