Robert Novak: Dean's holiday gaffes

Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2004 | Robert Novak

[Elkiejg]

This is a priceless article..........love seeing the RATS turn on each other. Speaking of Novak. Heard an interesting take on the CIA leak story in connection to Novak yesterday from a talk radio host - don't remember name. He claims the real story behind the "witch hunt at the WH for the leaker" should include "why did Novak reveal Wilson's wife's name after the CIA ask him not to?" He went on to claim Novak is just a guilty as the so called leaker.......if there is one!! Any opnions freepers?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Off camera, [Dean adviser maria Echaveste] suggested Dean needs a little rest.

Being President of the United States is not a job which allows for all the rest one might need. If Dean goes this far off the deep end from lack of rest at this stage of the campaign season, I'd hate to see what would happen to him when dealing with a major crisis as President.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

In my experience I've learned that only two kinds of people have a problem with "running off at the mouth".

The first kind is engineers who are obsessed with the minutia and are excited to tell you all the details.

The other are people with inferiority complexes who must pontificate continuously to feel important.

I know that the former governor is a man of science, but some of his recent statements seem devoid of intellect.

The verdict is still out.

We will see the true heart of this man when he loses the Iowa Caucuses or some other early primary.

There is also the possibility that Dr. Dean is a perfectionist. If so, then the real fun is about to begin!

[Huck]

I heard that, too. I forget which program. Maybe the radio Factor. I'm not a big Novak fan, myself. I'm pretty sure his attitudes about the middle east differ from those of the Administration. He's been on TV a long time and so has some name recognition. The media is part of the game.

The radio host wanted to know why people would defend Novak. I think around here it was the instinct to close ranks around "one of ours." Like lawyers, they found the best credible defense and ran with it, to prevent the opposition from having any sort of victory.

For me, I don't care about that story at all. I don't think I could care less. Sounds like inside the beltway bullshit. So what the heck am I doing here?

[Leroy S. Mort]

Carville:"I'm scared to death that this guy just says anything. It feels like he's undergone some kind of a political lobotomy here."

I'd say the Clintonista Anti-Doc campaign has now entered the Shock and Awe phase.

[Huck]

I think there are some people who are just verbal (or maybe oral?) gluttons. Fat, unpolished people who blubber and blather with no sense. They don't have sense or self-control enough to shut up and listen.

[debg]

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I think there are some people who are just verbal (or maybe oral?) gluttons. Fat, unpolished people who blubber and blather with no sense. They don't have sense or self-control enough to shut up and listen.

Hey, no fair!

Turn off that hidden camera.

I don't like to be watched.

[Doc Savage]

Deano is off his beano! The man is clearly psychotic, disturbed, and foaming at the mouth. Of course these are the quotes that endear him even further to the DU rabble that lap at the defacatory excrement leaking from this rectal cavity.

[Stentor]

Brown did not lift a finger as other candidates savaged front-runner Bill Clinton.

Things that make you go Hmmm.

[Stentor]

They don't have sense or self-control enough to shut up and listen.

Charles Krauthammer said that there were a lot of these guys with him in school. Is this a characteristic of the M Deity?

[Seruzawa]

Deano is off his beano!

Hear hear. A simple statement that answers all questions about Dean's unhinged comments.

Insane people get elected into office all the time. Usually they are weeded out before they reach the Presidency, but when you have a voter base that is as lunatic as that in New England you can expect the insane to reach the pinnacle of power.

There are plenty other people in high office who are certifiable. How about Barbara Boxer? The list is endless.

[CygnusTheSwan]

Off camera, [Dean adviser maria Echaveste] suggested Dean needs a little rest.

Being President of the United States is not a job which allows for all the rest one might need. If Dean goes this far off the deep end from lack of rest at this stage of the campaign season, I'd hate to see what would happen to him when dealing with a major crisis as President

My thoughts exactly.
It's one thing to make these 'gaffes' while on the campaign trail, but imagine if these 'gaffes' were concerning not at a rival candidate, but a leader of a foreign country, say China. Yikes.

[aristeides]

James Carville this week summed up the Dean problem: "He seems to not appreciate the glory of the unspoken thought."

I wonder if it's really a problem. I suspect it's precisely what appeals to Dean's supporters.

[Fifth Business]

As DNC chairman in 1992, Brown did not lift a finger as other candidates savaged front-runner Bill Clinton.

Hmmmmmmmmm.

[aristeides]

Was Dean's statement about Brown a hint of a threat towards the Clintonistas?

[aculeus]

He disappeared at age 23 in 1974 while visiting Laos as an anti-war civilian as part of a world tour ...

I knew he wasn't military but he was "anti-war" meaning anti-miliary if not anti-American.

And his body was accorded a military escort. What's next? Noam Chomsky to be buried at Arlington?

[TUX]

Howie "The Mouth" Deano

Talk about loose lips sinking ships.

[jwalsh07]

The long knives are out for Uncle Howard. The race is on, will he die from a thousand cuts or will the pure, raging hatred of the left for President Bush carry him deeply wounded over the goal line?