As (something) of a public service, I now offer my Children's Guide to the 2012 Elections -- or lessons young people can learn from American politics. I offer this in the spirit of bipartisanship for which I am noted and with absolute faith that -- eight years of George W. Bush notwithstanding -- the people are never wrong. OK, kiddies, here are the lessons:Never Give Up. The person who best exemplifies this is Todd Akin, the senatorial candidate in Missouri who enriched the English language with the phrase "legitimate rape." When such a thing happens to some poor women, he...

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