A prisoner became a free man; a liberation figure became a passionate voice for reconciliation; a party leader became a president who advanced democracy and development.
But the Romney operation and GOP "establishment" decided to sandbag his supporters anyway, shocking even some in the Ron Paul apparatus who hoped for reconciliation with party power brokers.
Because the Massachusetts special election of Republican Scott Brown cut the regular process short and detoured Democrats into reconciliation, the party was limited in changes that it could make.
Similarly, in order to define what is necessary for the reconciliation of parties as members of a moral community (Radzik 2009), a political community (C. Murphy 2010), or the international community (Barry 1980), we might look to the ideals that appropriately define those relationships.
For true reconciliation, both parties have to take responsibility and do their part.
Betrayal, backstabbing, families trying to work things out, friendships falling apart, explosions, reconciliations, RV parties, lots of wine.
Participants took it as a gesture of reconciliation after the party outraged grass-roots groups by backing a moderate Republican over a conservative in the special Congressional election in New York's 23rd District in November.
Mr. Bloomberg's reconciliation with the party unfolded over weeks of secret negotiations, many held at the Bank Street town house of Mr. Newman and Jackie Salit, who have long been active in New York politics.
Du Bois, one of the NAACP's founders, he tried to lay the groundwork for a reconciliation between his party and blacks by conceding that racism still exists in America (which some Republicans have denied) and by a nostra culpa: "The party of Lincoln hasn't always carried the mantle of Lincoln".
Nevertheless, Ms Murphy withdrew as the prospective general election candidate for the sake of party "reconciliation and unity".
