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His Own Private Valley Forge

by David Kurtz
07.13.10 | 6:10 pm

Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber — whose TV ad of him personally urging the founding fathers to war was perhaps the most laughable campaign ad of 2010 — lost in the GOP primary runoff tonight in Alabama.

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