Mark Steyn: So which would America rather have: Pretty Boy or Long Face?

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 02/22/04 | Mark Steyn

[JusPasenThru]

Don't be so sure. Remember, this is a country where Al Gore's poll numbers jumped after he frenched his wife on TV. Edwards is just too darn cute for the testosterone-challenged section of our society not to pay close attention to.

[DestroytheDemocrats]

Ashton Kutcher should shave and stop wearing lipstick.

[DestroytheDemocrats]

``We don't need a president who just says, `Gentlemen start your engines.' We need a president who says, `America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.''

OMG! This is so profound! Whoever said this MUST have served in Vietnam!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Edwards is condescending. Kerry is far too grand to condescend. But both are agreed that America is a vast wasteland of unemployed, shivering, diseased losers. For single-issue guys like me, Edwards barely says a word on Iraq and the war, though I am inclined to think he'd be better than Kerry. The latter seems eager to do whatever Chirac and Kofi want, whereas with Edwards there's always the possibility he will wind up suing the UN Security Council for emotional distress.

Mark Steyn is awfully funny. I laughed through the entire article, LOL.

[MeekOneGOP]

ha ! Yeah, me too. Another good one from the SteynMaster ! ...

[AlbertWang]

A large part of the public votes for the candidate with the best hair.


That could be either Breck Boi or Al Sharpton.

[WaterDragon]

The Dimwits primaries are resembling a snail race, with the only interesting thing about them the slime they leave behind.....for someone else to clean up.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I love this part:

Kerry was a blueblood of relatively minor means who married a woman worth $300 million and then traded up to a woman worth $500 million. If I were Teresa Heinz Kerry I'd be worried, now Massachusetts is introducing gay marriage, that hubby may start giving the come-hither look to some of the state's elderly bachelor billionaires.

By contrast, John Edwards had a dirt-poor hard-scrabble childhood but managed to sue his way out of poverty. He has made 25 million bucks just from suing tobacco companies.

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! Me too, esp. this ...

If I were Teresa Heinz Kerry I'd be worried, now Massachusetts is introducing gay marriage, that hubby may start giving the come-hither look to some of the state's elderly bachelor billionaires.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hahaha, too funny!

[Choose Ye This Day]

Please add me to your Mark Steyn PING list. He is hilarious!

[irv]

Kerry is far too grand to condescend.

At least in his own mind.

[Maximum Leader]

Oh you have something to look forward to!

It's astonishing how bad a public speaker he is.

[gcruse]

And the Giraffe said "cheer up pal, the highballs are on me!"

LOL    And the bartender says, "I was talking to the duck!"

[Jim Scott]

Another excellent Mark Steyn piece. My favorite line:

By contrast, John Edwards had a dirt-poor hard-scrabble childhood but managed to sue his way out of poverty. He has made 25 million bucks just from suing tobacco companies. His is an inspirational message: If I can do it, the rest of you haven't a hope in hell. But fortunately I've got a thousand new government programmes and micro-initiatives that will partially ameliorate your hopeless mediocrity. (I paraphrase.)

Well said, as usual.

[NYCVirago]

If Pretty Boy wins somewhere, anywhere, on Super Tuesday, the mantle of inevitability falls away from Kerry. If he doesn't, Dems are stuck with the default guy, and by April they're going to be awful sick of him.

We're all sick of hearing Kerry talk about Vietnam in every other sentence. I imagine that pretty soon, the rest of the electorate will get as sick of hearing that as we are. It's like Dukakis talking in every speech of being the son of immigrants -- it gets really old after a while.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Ruth A.]

I willnever be able to think of Edwards again, without a vision of him bouncing on stage, bangs a flouncing ala Charlie's Angles or Baywatch.

I love Mark Steyn.

[texasflower]

Take my advice. Continue to avoid listening to him.

He will make you pull your hair out and then beg someone to knock you unconscious.