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"In matters of international relations, the United States is one nation," said House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as he spurned reporters' questions on l'affaire Lewinsky two weeks ago.
His screenplay ideas in the company of the muse are pathetically feeble, and when she encourages them--and when they find favor with Steven's agent and the executives who'd previously spurned him--the point seems to be that everyone in the film industry is a moron.
A Royal Commission on the Arts and Letters was spurned by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent as a futile body for “subsidizing ballet dancers.”
So McCain spurned Iowa.
This is the guy who spurned an offer of marriage with the daughter of the king of France, a marriage that would have created a valuable alliance, in favor of a commoner.