Monday, June 27  Not only is there no crying in baseball, there
are apparently no Democrats, either.  So it was OK for major
Republican donor Wayne Huizenga to own the Florida Marlins, and
it was OK for a dozen current or former team owners to raise
hundreds of thousands of dollars for George W. Bush's re-
election campaign -- but George Soros can't buy the Washington
Nationals from Major League Baseball because that would be
"get[ting] involved in a political fight"?  Right. Because
people with political connections should never own sports teams!
In addition to "smaller government" and "individual rights," I
guess we can add "free-market economics" to the laundry list of
former conservative tenets that the current Republican Party is
merrily pissing on. Ten bucks says that if Jack Abramoff comes
calling, though, they'll sell him the Nats in a heartbeat.  No
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