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O'Rourke; Not An Election, A Restraining Order
Weekly Standard ^ | October 25, 2010 | P. J. O'Rourke

Posted on 10/26/2010 9:44:57 AM PDT by HonestConservative

They Hate Our Guts

And they’re drunk on power.

Perhaps you’re having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP’s crowning glory—an isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine O’Donnell announcing that she’s not a witch. (I ask you, has Hillary Clinton ever cleared this up?) Fret not over Republican peccadilloes such as the Tea Party finding the single, solitary person in Nevada who couldn’t poll ten to one against Harry Reid. Better to have a few cockeyed mutts running the dog pound than Michael Vick.

I take it back. Using the metaphor of Michael Vick for the Democratic party leadership implies they are people with a capacity for moral redemption who want to call good plays on the legislative gridiron. They aren’t. They don’t. The reason is simple. They hate our guts.

They don’t just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody’s guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class.

Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats.

Whence all this hate? Is it the usual story of love gone wrong? Do Democrats have a mad infatuation with the political system, an unhealthy obsession with an idealized body politic? Do they dream of capturing and ravishing representational democracy? Are they crazed stalkers of our constitutional republic?

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Government; History; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: election; orourke; pjorourke; restraining; vote
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To: HonestConservative

Thanks, HC. PJ’s essay is a great read—especially after listening to Barky’s “punish our ENEMIES” speech that was aired and parsed this morning on the Rush Limbaugh Program.


21 posted on 10/26/2010 10:48:13 AM PDT by CDB ([Barky without a teleprompter is] "dazed and confused, like a duck hit on the head"--Abraham Lincoln)
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To: brytlea; Diana in Wisconsin; Kakaze; Tammy8; unkus; metmom; Cap Huff; svcw; leapfrog0202; Concho; ..

Political ping.


22 posted on 10/26/2010 10:57:13 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: HonestConservative

He wrote an essay in 1993 which I had tacked up on my wall when I was working for the longest time. When I was out of the office, someone lifted it.

I am unable to find the thing, and I get mad every time I think about it.

I think its been scrubbed.
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If you can outline the gist of it, I would wager that someone here will be able to find it for you before the day is over.


23 posted on 10/26/2010 11:10:08 AM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: Psalm 144

I have tried for a long time, and a similar one comes forward, but not the one I remember. I am sure about this, since it was posted in front of me for years.

It was published in the WSJ in 1993.


24 posted on 10/26/2010 11:18:23 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://holdingahammer.com/)
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To: HonestConservative

Have you contacted PJ or the WSJ? I ask because I understand how frustrating it is to lose such data, and how hard it can be to recover.


25 posted on 10/26/2010 11:28:10 AM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: Psalm 144

Yep. I give up.

My favorite line is NOT the one most people think of from the time;

“(getting) Lawyers to run health care is like asking the plumber to mow the lawn.”


26 posted on 10/26/2010 11:41:39 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://holdingahammer.com/)
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To: HonestConservative

Sorry.

:-(

Don’t get me wrong, I love the internet, CDs, downloads and all that good stuff, but the only proper way to live is in a high and towering barricaded of stacked books and cartons of documents. There is nothing quite like hard copy, and being able to put your hands on the paper.


27 posted on 10/26/2010 11:47:44 AM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: HonestConservative
Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting a high-powered corporate lawyer in charge of making it cheaper. (This is what I always do when I want to spend less money — hire a lawyer from Yale.) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.

-PJ O'Rourke
The Liberty Manifesto (1993)

28 posted on 10/27/2010 11:11:40 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

thanks, smooth, great quote, and the one I am aware of, But the article that I am looking for is still missing.


29 posted on 10/27/2010 12:15:50 PM PDT by HonestConservative (http://holdingahammer.com/)
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To: dfwgator
I saw him at an appearance for his new book a few weeks ago. He looks good, and I had a chance to talk to him. He said he's at his two-year mark since he was treated for cancer, and the prognosis is good. I told him when I heard he had cancer I couldn't believe it because “P.J. is supposed to be indestructible.” He said, “Yeah, that's what I thought!”
30 posted on 10/28/2010 12:47:57 AM PDT by drew
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To: drew

That’s great to hear, thanks for the update. PJ is one of the reasons I am a conservative.


31 posted on 10/28/2010 6:12:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Texas Rangers - American League Champions)
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