Denny Hastert, 2 heartbeats from the presidency

Why has the Speaker of the House been marginalized to being a pathetic Republican smear artist? Who knows, who cares. But he's recently set his sites on the Democratic 527 champ, George Soros, one of the world's leading philanthropists. I won't get into the 527 issue, but I'm sure that this sort of dreck is just an extension of what we saw last night at the RNC.
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