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Election Season Is Bad Time For Slip Of The Quip (Mark Steyn On Meaning Of Kerry's Quip Alert)
Chicago Sun Times ^
| 11/05/2006
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 11/05/2006 2:25:58 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: L.N. Smithee
As a Boston Brahmin, he's the high priest of post-modern liberalism. As a Heinz Blue Blood, Kerry is an elite Democrat snob. The Drive By Media is wowed by both aspects of his less than sterling character.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:08:18 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
"In this tedious shell game, no matter how frantically the left shuffles the cups, you never find the one shriveled pea of The Military Intervention We're Willing To Support When it Matters."
This article is classic! Love the lines throughout! Thanks for posting.
To: sauropod
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:13:02 AM PST
by
sauropod
("Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow." - Ben Franklin)
To: CheyennePress
The Democrats always begin by supporting a war when the going gets good but when it gets tough they're the first to abandon their foxholes and like cowards, head for the hills.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:13:38 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Instead, Kerry just stood there nose to nose, staring at us with an inscrutable semi-glare on his face. After an eternity, an aide stepped out from behind him and said, "The senator needs you to move." Yessir, Jon Carry- a real workaday, shirt-sleeve Man of the People.
Creepy.
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:13:40 AM PST
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: sauropod
If the party that insults the troops wins on Tuesday, you can't say much for the intelligence of the American people. This is what we would get from those who pretend to support them behind their back but hate them in their hearts for making America both free and proud.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:16:47 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Riley
Yes, note the condescension. According to the Drive Bys, the country is in love with the Democrats. We'll see how much of that is true on Wednesday morning.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:18:17 AM PST
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goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Every word a gem, on target, amazing. The description of his face to face meeting with Kerry, the 'two old coots in plaid'....how New Hampshireish! Kerry's sneer, his aide's demand that Steyn move...priceless. Kerry tried to mend fences with NH dem party insiders in early January, '06. It was worth watching twice on C-Span...he was so inept. Lame speech, one hand clappers, at the end he fawned, named a few locals and then rushed to press the flesh. (All this caught on tape.) The room emptied as if someone had just yelled, FIRE, and Kerry was left with his botoxed face hanging out. (Laughed so hard I cried.)
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:20:01 AM PST
by
hershey
To: hershey
Kerry is worth a mangled phrase or two. The only person on earth who takes his ridiculous pursuit of indecisiveness as politics seriously is himself. As it stands, the French Poodle is the Hamlet of 21st Century American politics.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:23:32 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."I can be slow on the uptake. It just occurs to me that John Kerry, the C-D student, is describing how he himself got to Vietnam. He was a classic draft-induced volunteer -- not that there's anything wrong with that, but he signed up only after failing to finagle another deferment.
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11/05/2006 3:23:59 AM PST
by
sphinx
To: sphinx
For its worth, Mark Steyn predicts the GOP will retain control of Congress. As he said on his website, its too late to backpeddle. Unlike Jean Francois Cheri, neither waving the white flag or taking both positions at the same time isn't Mark's forte. If he's right, he's right. If not, he'll have to eat a helping of crow.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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11/05/2006 3:26:55 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Whatever happened to the guy who was with him in 2004? Served with kerry briefly in Vietnam. Tried to counter the Swiftboat guys by telling them what a great guy and officer kerry was. Kerry probably tossed him aside as soon as the election was over.
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:40:28 AM PST
by
barker
(Some days are diamonds, some days are stones.)
To: sphinx
It really doesn't matter any more where that dope came from or how he served. If the world is still round, his words have done him in and we will hear nothing more from him. I read somewhere that his comments got picked up by bloggers and not the MSM. The PajamaCorps have done it again!
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posted on
11/05/2006 3:42:08 AM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Labrador Retrievers are the dog's dog)
To: goldstategop
"A vain thin-skinned condescending blueblood with no sense of his own ridiculousness, Senator Nuancy Boy..." Priceless. Simply priceless.
To: goldstategop
Kerry's gaffe isn't about one maladroit Marie Antoinette of the Senate but a glimpse into the mind-set of too many Americans.Amen...
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:05:49 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
To: goldstategop
Bill Clinton bombed more countries in a little more than six months than the Zionist neocon warmonger Bush has in six years but, unless you happened to be in that Sudanese aspirin factory, it was as desultory and uncommitted as his sex life and characterized by the same inability to reach (in Ken Starr's word) "completion."
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:06:18 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: goldstategop
Bump for excellent Steyn.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:09:13 AM PST
by
metesky
(My investment portfolio is holding steady @ .05¢ a can.)
To: goldstategop
Classic Steyn. Great article from beginning to end because it lays out the truth about Kerry, Democrats, and the Left.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:10:26 AM PST
by
Ninian Dryhope
("Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers." The inestimable Mark Steyn)
To: goldstategop
I can't imagine getting to the age of 60 and not knowing what Chili is. That type of existence does not seem much fun to me.
No Coney Dogs. No Skyline chili. No Texas flame thrower chili. No football tailgating. No deer camp. No late night tent evacuation.
I'm glad they like being snooty, gives the rest of us someone to loathe.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:12:18 AM PST
by
IamConservative
(A mans true character is revealed in what he does when no one is watching.)
To: goldstategop
...what [Kerry] said fits what too many upscale Dems believe: that America's soldiers are only there because they're too poor and too ill-educated to know any better. That's what they mean when they say "we support our troops." They support them as victims, as children, as potential welfare recipients, but they don't support them as warriors and they don't support the mission.Stein is nearly perfect on these matters. But I'll quibble just a bit with this analysis.
"They support them as victims..." is overly broad. It should say "they support ONLY THE ONES they can portray as victims". Here are the "troops" Dems embrace:
---My recruiter lied to me.
---I only joined for the benefits...not to go to war. Waaaaa!
---I'll have to leave my 3 babies behind & ain't got no husband to take care of 'em.
---As a vet I have to drive 3 HOURS to the nearest VA facility!
---My drill sergeant was mean to me!
---And the worst: Horribly wounded. Better yet...dead.
On that last, note that the American people never responded to the Dems' and MSM's repeated demands to film flag-draped coffins returning to Dover. Patriots understood their motive: portray the fallen as victims, symbols of the folly of war. Any American over 40 understands that "support the troops" only came after Dems woke up with a dreadful hangover from their bacchanalian bender in the 70's (spitting on vets, portraying soldiers as baby killers). They had to rid themselves of the military-loathing label. So they adopted the "we support all victims" strategy.
The above list really could go on and on (and please feel free to add to it). What it will never include---what they do not "support"---is the Hoo-ah warrior who commits violence for their sake. They cannot comprehend the young man or woman who subjugates self to a larger calling.
Bottom line: They do not understand HONOR.
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posted on
11/05/2006 4:13:47 AM PST
by
Timeout
(I hate MediaCrats! ......and trial lawyers.)
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