11.   The average nursing-home provider hates government and feels burdened by federal regulation.

12.   Their simple plea is that they hate government as much as the voters do and want to use public office to stop it in its tracks.

13.   These folks do not hate government when it preserves cheap gasoline for their Chevys in gulf wars, or repairs the freeways they use to drive to gun shows.

14.   They hate government.

15.   They came not from Muslim extremists, but from those who claim to be American patriots who love their country but hate their government.

16.   They do not hate government when they exercise their right to stockpile weapons in ways other civilized countries do not allow.

17.   They came from people claiming to be American patriots who love their country but hate their government.

18.   This is why increasing numbers of otherwise sane people hate government.

19.   To avoid that fate, Republicans would have to agree on a platform more compelling than hating Bill Clinton, hating government, distrusting minorities and opposing abortion.

20.   Unlike the angry white males who hate government so much, most of those I interviewed wished it would invest more in them.