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The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

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John Podhoretz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 18
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