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Chris -- 2025-05-10
The Guardian on Saturday (3/6-06) in the “How the bloggers saw it …” piece quotes the following:
http://netroots.wordpress.com/2006/05/31/more-gore/
“Gore is still being ambiguous about his feelins on running for president in 2008. Many believe that he is waiting to be the candidate that has such a buzz of support that he has no choice but to succumb to the will of the people and be carried to the convention on their soldiers. That’s what I think or at least its what I hope.”
I can see how the “carried on their soldiers” evokes the idea of a coup d’état so the eggcorn reformation is there. The problem is of course that this blogger seems to be pro-Gore, so the imagery seems a bit out of place.
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