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This self-regarding city loves its celebrities, be they dandified politician, techie billionaire or quirky sports hero.

John Dennis is none of those things.

Not a single head turns as he enters one of his regular lunch spots, passing the long mahogany bar and striding down a row of tables before settling into a seat near the corner.

His labors may qualify as one of the most futile exercises in all of American politics, an effort akin to shooting a bottle rocket at the moon: Three times Dennis, a libertarian-minded Republican, has run against Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Three times he has fallen epically short.

Pelosi, the Democratic House leader, is not just one of the most powerful and prominent women in the nation. She represents a vociferously liberal city, where Republicans are a blink-and-you-miss-them 8% of registered voters. On Nov. 4, she was reelected for the 14th time with 83% support.

Still, Dennis suggests, a struggling party needs to start somewhere.

"This town is an echo chamber, like a super-red town would be," he says, "and it's really important to break down the stereotype of what people think so you can have a more interesting discussion of what's going on."

Dennis is hardly your standard-issue Republican.

He differs with social conservatives on same-sex marriage, believing such wedlock is none of the federal government's business, and also on legalized abortion, saying he is "not comfortable using the force of the state" to outlaw the procedure.

He breaks with the chest-thumpers in the GOP who offer American exceptionalism as a rationale for an expansive and assertive foreign policy. Having lived abroad, Dennis says, he has seen the way people resent the United States; for him, a catalyzing political moment came during a 2007 Republican presidential debate when former Texas Rep. Ron Paul characterized the 9/11 attacks as "blowback" for America's role in the Middle East.

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Their underwhelmed expressions produced a number of amused comments, with the Gawker website observing that not even the pomp and ritual of the White House can overcome the most powerful force known to man: teen contempt.

Ms Lauten, however, took the caustic theme and went much further with it.

I get youre both in those awful teen years, but youre a part of the First Family try showing a little class, she wrote. At least respect the part you play. She added: Then again, your mother and father dont respect their positions very much, or the nation for that matter, so Im guessing youre coming up a little short in the 'good role model department.

Then she turned to the girls clothes, and in particular, it seems, their short skirts. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar, she concluded.

The post quickly drew ire on Twitter and elsewhere, with many calling for Ms Lauten, once a media director for the Republican National Committee, to be fired, even after she deleted it and posted an apology.

After many hours of prayer, talking to my parents and rereading my words online, I can see more clearly just how hurtful my words were, Ms Lauten wrote on Facebook, also widely shared before she made her page private.

Id like to apologise to all of those who I have hurt and offended with my words, and I pledge to learn and grow (and I assure you I have) from this experience. She said that she had judged the two young ladies in a way that I would never have wanted to be judged myself as a teenager.

Star Jones, a television personality, was among those unimpressed. Ive seen tacky people but rarely seen someone as tacky as Elizabeth Lauten for slamming the children of the Potus, [President of the US], she tweeted.

One Twitter user, Maria Lia Calvo, wrote: Youre always free to disagree w/Potus on policy, but the children are off-limits. Always.

The two girls are the youngest residents of the White House since Chelsea Clinton, who was 12 when her father, Bill, became president in 1993.

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Their underwhelmed expressions produced a number of amused comments, with the Gawker website observing that not even the pomp and ritual of the White House can overcome the most powerful force known to man: teen contempt.

Ms Lauten, however, took the caustic theme and went much further with it.

I get youre both in those awful teen years, but youre a part of the First Family try showing a little class, she wrote. At least respect the part you play. She added: Then again, your mother and father dont respect their positions very much, or the nation for that matter, so Im guessing youre coming up a little short in the 'good role model department.

Then she turned to the girls clothes, and in particular, it seems, their short skirts. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar, she concluded.

The post quickly drew ire on Twitter and elsewhere, with many calling for Ms Lauten, once a media director for the Republican National Committee, to be fired, even after she deleted it and posted an apology.

After many hours of prayer, talking to my parents and rereading my words online, I can see more clearly just how hurtful my words were, Ms Lauten wrote on Facebook, also widely shared before she made her page private.

Id like to apologise to all of those who I have hurt and offended with my words, and I pledge to learn and grow (and I assure you I have) from this experience. She said that she had judged the two young ladies in a way that I would never have wanted to be judged myself as a teenager.

Star Jones, a television personality, was among those unimpressed. Ive seen tacky people but rarely seen someone as tacky as Elizabeth Lauten for slamming the children of the Potus, [President of the US], she tweeted.

One Twitter user, Maria Lia Calvo, wrote: Youre always free to disagree w/Potus on policy, but the children are off-limits. Always.

The two girls are the youngest residents of the White House since Chelsea Clinton, who was 12 when her father, Bill, became president in 1993.

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