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Johnson's absence threatens Iraq measures - Politics
Continue to the storyThe biggest mystery to me of 2007 is why the notoriously cutthroat GOP have simply decided to not try to replace the ill Johnson. Is there prior precedent? Is the governor unsympathetic? Do they know it could happen to McCain as President (ha)? Anyone know? I thought recovering this seat for the GOP would be job #1 for Cheney/Rove.