Joe the Plumber and GOP 'Authenticity'

online.wsj.com — Reality is a terrible impediment when you're reaching out to workers while simultaneously cracking down on unions and scheming to privatize Social Security. Leave that reality to the "reality-based community." The "perception of reality," on the other hand, is an amazing political tonic, and with it conservatives have cemented a fact-proof worldview of lasting power.

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