jim beam
Nov 12 2004, 02:08 AM
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There is another great role for minority voices within a national party--as a check on excess. The voices of any party's counter-majoritarian caucus are an alarm that sounds whenever ideological excess rears up. Had the late Bob Casey, pro-life Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, not been humbled by Democratic pro-choice absolutists, but instead been allowed to leave a legacy of respected center-left voices among the Democrats, perhaps wiser heads would have prevented the rise of Michael Moore--a rise that actually landed him in the presidential box at the Democratic convention in Boston. A party without a vigorous minority loses the ability to police itself. And then the nuts rush in
http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/P...04/899rtbfn.aspKerry lost because the democrats are nuts. Plain and simple. Nice examples of this abound here on this forum.
Milton
Nov 12 2004, 08:18 PM
Statistical analysis says the odds that the exit polls were
right are 250 million to one.
Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancies
Boon Mee
Dec 1 2004, 09:49 PM
Blue State Liberals Crying In The Rain
The most illuminating vignette in Newsweek magazine’s most excellent post-election issue was a line from none other than John Kerry. Arrogant to the core, the elitist ketchup-digger revealed his true feelings toward George Bush - and by extension all us clodhopping carp-chompers in the Red States - with one infamous slip of the tongue.
“I can’t believe I’m losing to this idiot” muttered Kerry in a moment of sputtering confusion, no doubt scratching the bolts on his neck and wondering if his next job would entail being a body-double for Herman Munster.
It has been a month since the election, and the Democrats still can’t believe it. There is a much repeated cliché - attributed to Albert Einstein - that insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome. If such is true, then the clones and supplicants of the liberal contingent should jump on the ol’ thorazine train post-haste. In scientific terms, they’re nutty as a fruit-cake.
Rather than accepting reality and striving to regroup, the Blue State liberals grind their capped teeth, yank their woven hair and fiddle with their nose-studs. They visit therapists who hold a dual specialty in both post-election-stress-disorder and locating the inner child of mid-level hedge-fund managers. They still deny that George Bush won a far greater mandate than that which was heralded by the DNC upon the election of Bill Clinton. They still see the Kerry failure as an anomaly. Though they are in no position to make demands, they still scream for the Republicans to compromise. They cajole the Red Staters to reach across the aisle, to joyously implement after-school methadone programs, to offer free condoms to golden retrievers and ban handguns, spitwads, snowballs, lawn darts, Rush Limbaugh and other deadly devices.
In their despondency, Kerry supporters have gone around the bend. They’ve demanded recounts and hatched bizarre conspiracy theories as to how the election was stolen by a domestic cabal consisting of Dick Cheney, Halliburton and 3,000 dead winos who live in the oleander bushes behind a 7-11 in Columbus, Ohio. Unable to accept that they lost, and further unable to accept that loss with grace, a couple members of the latter day Blue Man Group have even decided to shed this mortal coil. I have no doubt the preferred method of self-whacking was a chest shot, as it’s tough to blow your brains out when they can’t be located without the aid of an electron microscope.
The radical libs curse the stupid evangelical Bush voters in Jesusland and threaten to move to Canada en masse. This latter tactic proved to be amusing, as the Canadian government quickly issued a press release stating that disgruntled Blue Staters would have to wait their turn if they chose to emigrate to the most boring and politically correct chunk of tundra on the planet. You know you’re sorta’ obnoxious when even Canada doesn’t want you.
Frankly, I worry about the libs and their geographic escape plans. When they took a shellacking in 2000, lefty icons such as Alec Baldwin and Barbra Streisand told us they were going to move to France. In 2004, the grieving Blues chose Canada. What the heck will happen if they once again are crushed in 2008? Will they all go to Portland, spending their remaining days tossing pink rice at gay marriage ceremonies? Will they all migrate to Seattle, wandering the rain-soaked streets while sipping on a triple soy latte with carob shavings? Will they all move to Idaho and build a tent city on the outskirts of the Heinz compound? One can only hope.
The liberal strategy of sour-grapes and self destruction gets better. The President has appointed new Cabinet members based upon ability, beliefs and shared vision, rather than pandering and political considerations. Talk about diversity. We have Condoleezza Rice as the next Secretary of State. We have Carlos Gutierrez, the Cuban-born chief executive of Kellogg Co., as the nominee to be Commerce Secretary. Alberto Gonzales has been tapped for the Attorney General slot.
But do the liberals celebrate the implementation of the diversity they have long claimed as their most fervent wish? Not on your life. Their talk radio lackeys portray Rice as “Aunt Jemima.” Gutierrez and Gonzales are labeled “yes-men.” You see, the Democrats have their own version of racial profiling. One can only be Hispanic or African-American if they accept the scraps and bones of welfare, if they voluntarily remain in poverty and praise the liberal agenda. To espouse conservative beliefs means you are just another “old, rich white guy,” no matter your age, race or gender.
The final proof of insanity is that the Blues find it repugnant that these Cabinet nominees agree with the President. They think he should hire people who find his goals disgusting (Democrats), people who will spend their time in endless meetings (Democrats), and people who accomplish nothing unless it involves bad-mouthing American traditions and undermining American interests (Democrats, Democrats, Democrats).
They’re really gonna’ freak out when they learn John Ashcroft is on the short list to be the next Chief Justice.
Thanks to Ron Marr
Georgie-Porgie
Dec 2 2004, 07:04 AM
Thanks for this Boon Mee.
Butterfly
Dec 4 2004, 11:39 PM
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American People or conservatives for the matter. We have a good sample here
Georgie-Porgie
Dec 5 2004, 05:17 AM
Another thing that you are an expert on. There is no one in the Bear-Pit on
either side who matches you in the stupid realm.
Mike
Dec 6 2004, 01:32 AM
QUOTE (Georgie-Porgie @ Dec 5 2004, 02:17 PM)
Another thing that you are an expert on. There is no one in the Bear-Pit on
either side who matches you in the stupid realm.

But I'll agree with anyone on either side that you are a bore......

Mike
Blather
Dec 6 2004, 10:13 AM
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Never underestimate the stupidity of the American People or conservatives for the matter. We have a good sample here
Oh the irony of that statement!
Butterfly
Dec 7 2004, 03:11 AM
QUOTE (Blather @ Dec 6 2004, 05:13 PM)
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Never underestimate the stupidity of the American People or conservatives for the matter. We have a good sample here
Oh the irony of that statement!
You are the living proof that you can sound smart by spitting an entire encyclopedia and still be dumb as a rock when it comes to logic
So tell me, were you also in "special services" before you retired in Pattaya ?
C.Woww
Dec 7 2004, 10:31 AM
Georgie doesn't live in Pattaya anymore. He has seen the light and is now eagerly looking forward to The Rapture. He can currently be found handing out leaflets to newly arrived punters at Don Muang.
Doctor Pangloss
Dec 9 2004, 12:26 AM
Here's a nifty little gem that was e-mailed to me today:
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If we really wanted to turn it around, perhaps we should have looked at Saudi Arabia: does Fox tell you that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from there? I reckon you might think that Iraq did the 11 sept stuff-- SUPRISE!! IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING other than a Bush family vendeta. If the US was after anyting other than killing 100,000 Iraqi civilians in the name of capitalism .. er, sorry, democracy (we do tend to confuse those two words in Amerika, don't we) we would have left Iraq well enough alone and rather than attack them the way Hitler attacked France, we could have gone after Saudi Arabia- oh, wait, they supply out herroin, er... oil, and Lord Bush is an oil man, or rather Daddy set him up as one, so that is where we went. You can couch this in anyting you wish, but bottom likne is we are there for oil, oil and oil. Fox news and the Bushies and religious right (of whom I am suprised you are a part) can place the Yank flag all over it and get the ignorant masses to cheer at the sight of the red white and blue, but bottom line is that it takes a true patriot to stand up against a bad regime, and that is what I am doing. You can spout the party line all you wish and let the religious right make your thoughts for you, but I find what America is doing to be reprehensible and not any better (in fact, worse) than what Hitler, Musalini, Stalin or Hussein himself did. At least those people were placing their desire in nationalistic or ideological dreams: Bush has lead the country to an un-provoked war based on lies, false statement and bad inteligence all for oil. Greed. THAT is what your war is all about. Anyone who supports this war is just as guilty of war crimes as Bush himself. History will judge that man a criminal. Of that I am certain.
This was written today!
I let it stand as evidence of how thoroughly shellacked the liberal democratic brain has gotten.
Off the the cliffs of reason. Utterly gone.
See ya later alligator!
lamphun
Dec 9 2004, 03:36 AM
A bit extreme pehaps but basically a lot of truth in that e-mail. It's a pity that a lot of people have been blind sided by fear.
Doctor Pangloss
Dec 9 2004, 04:10 PM
QUOTE (lamphun @ Dec 9 2004, 10:36 AM)
A bit extreme pehaps but basically a lot of truth in that e-mail. It's a pity that a lot of people have been blind sided by fear.
Yes comparing Bush to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein might be considered just a little bit extreme.
Doctor Pangloss
Dec 9 2004, 04:12 PM
And as Dan Rather would say" even though the documents were forged the content was true"
Doctor Pangloss
Dec 9 2004, 04:14 PM
Or as Micheal Moore would say "there are no Iraqi terrorists, just freedom fighters"