Posted on 07/22/2004 4:35:45 PM PDT by vanderleun
WHEN YOU ARE INVOLVED IN A DUEL and you know your opponent is going to miss, it might be a good idea to hold your fire until after he's had his shot, and his gun clicks on empty.
This is hard to do when all your supporters are gathered around you chanting, "Kill him, kill him, kill him, kill him...," but an experienced man can manage. A champion dualist turns to the side, watches carefully, gets his enemy to miss, and holds his fire until he knows that he can put one between the eyes.
It seems to me that, with all the hoopla over the last few months, the President's supporters in the midst of the political melee are getting a wee bit over-anxious to have him open fire. A primary example of this appears today in the National Review as an editorial:
Where, meanwhile, is the positive, substantive side of the campaign? People are noticing that the president has not presented an agenda for his second term should he be re-elected. -- Where's the BeefTo which I would say, "Please get your knickers untwisted and your game face on."
I realize that it has to be tough to sit in the NR's offices day after day and watch the Left and the Democrats sling one plague ridden corpse after another over the wall, but you just have to hunker down and take it until the right moment, which is not.... quite.... yet.
Yes, we've had the Wilson Corpse, the Clarke Corpse, the Clinton Corpse, the Moore Corpse, the 9/11 Report Corpse -- all of these disgusting hunks have been lobbed in and now are scattered about the political landscape in various stages of decomposition. It's got to be getting rank in the Republican Fortifications, and there have to be a lot of people wanting to whip out the flamethrowers and start sanitizing the joint.
But patience, patience, patience please. Always remember that "A Drug and Democrat Free America comes first. "
You see, it really doesn't matter what happens in the next couple of weeks. All that matters is what happens in October.
Yes, there's going to be a Democratic Convention next week. Nothing can be done about that, it is our way. And yes, we're going to be getting even greater levels of putrid pablum spewed about by the media as the preening pundits of puce prevarication strut and fret their hours behind the teleprompter. It will be a sickening time as we watch, night after night, the chosen of the party hard at work defining deviancy as Democratic. But that is not a bad thing. It helps people to make a choice.
In time the convention will, like some mistakenly swallowed razor blade, pass. Then the annointed demented will ooze out on the streets to take their platform of taxation, complaint and appeasement to the American people in the form of what is possibly the most boring Democratic candidate since Mortimer Snerd.
Do you really want the President to say anything substantive that would allow these quislings and poltroons to be able to grind it through their lie machine? I think not. Why hand your enemy ammunition when you can watch him use up his own puncturing his clown shoes?
Perhaps a graying and somewhat melted version of John Kennedy catting about the country side with Robin the Boy Wonder as the Stepmoney sips charddonay to the Left of the podium will appeal to America, but I prefer to put my faith in the common sense wisdom of common Americans, rather than the latest chunk of cheese coughed up by Katie Couric. For most of August, the face of the Democratic Party will be Kerry, Ewards and Heinz. I think America will take a long hard look at them.
The next time we see the real face of the Democratic Party en masse will be on the streets of New York during the Republican Convention. That's going to be a fool's festival not seen since the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968. Just imagine what they will bring to the news of the day.
We'll have intense and random acts of bizarre behavior, city wide exhibits of advanced tattoos and body piercing, chants bubbling with hate, obscene signage, unattractive displays of nudity, and random violence throughout Manhattan for days, all with the Democratic Party Seal of Approval. I'm sure it will play a major role in swinging a lot of voters into the Republican Camp. Depend upon it.
And then, and only then, will we have the President's acceptance speech.
If Bush and his advisers are savvy politicians, and we have a lot of reasons to believe they are, they will wait until this moment to bring out "the positive, substantive side of the campaign" that the editors of the National Review are so eager to get on the record. Any sooner and you're just playing into the enemy's hands.
The dualist that wins is not the one that gets the first shot, but the one that gets the killing shot.
Polls and poltroons aside, let's just keep our power dry and wait until we see the red of their little bong smudged eyes before letting fly.
There's really no rush, especially now. Just think of the method used by Michael (De Niro) Vronsky in The Deerhunter:
Michael : A deer has to be taken with one shot. I try to tell people that but they don't listen.
Nick : What? One shot?
Michael : Two is pussy.
Reread the article and learn something.
1968 was a very different time. The Left had not completely taken over the news media back then.
They did in '68.Didn't you see it? I did.
Yes, and to illustrate how times have changed, compare the reporting of the Sandy Berger story. According the networks, the only story here is the "leak' by the wascally webpublicans. And you think they will show us the true face of the protesters?
many of you weren't on FR for the '00 primary and election season.I was and I have a far better than an excellent memory.Everything that the RED MEAT crowd wanted candidate Bush to do,he didn't and he won.
The alphabet networks and the major papers,such as the N.Y.and L.A. Times have lost and are still losing viewers/readers by the ton.Yet YOU and a few others here act as though FNC,talk radio,FR,and CONSERVATIVE newspapers don't exist.
If you don't mind telling,just how old were you in 1968?
1968? I was 11.
BINGO!
Now please tell me,if you would be so kind,where you lived in 1968 and if you ever read the EVO.
I agree that the media covered the Chicago convention extensively in 1968.
You? Sounds like a personal attack. I thought you weren't supposed to do that, here.
You seem to want all these stories to just - go away. Well, that's not going to happen.
And either you did NOT see the 1968 Dem Convention and the alternate events,or you have a lousy memory.The "children" protesting were covered yes,but BIASEDLY!
Just let the process continue. This isn't going to - go away. The man clearly stole classified documents. It seems the guard were negligent. There may have been orders from higher ups - if you remember the Abu Graib charges, which were baseless. May not be, this time. And so on. It's not going away.
But as with Abu Graib, let the people who prosecute do their job. That was going along as it should until Hersh/Hackworth got those CDs printed. But the process continued under that, and continues still. Now there's going to be a House hearing on Sandy 'Pants' and just what was he up to. There's an ongoing investigation.
And there are a lot of questions.
I don't see a contradiction between the work of the National Review and the motto "patience, patience, patience."
If Wilson is proven a liar now, why wait until October to point that out.
Or am I missing your point?
You haven't even been here a month.Try learning how to maneuver FR,interact here,and what constitutes a "personal attack" is,before you accuse someone of doling same. :-)
What's your complaint, exactly - from back in '68?
And does it really . . . matter?
When David's life by Saul was often sought,
And worlds of woes did compass him about,
On dire revenge, he never had a thought,
But in his grief, Hope still did help him out.
When Job had lost his children, lands and goods,
Patience assuaged his excessive pain,
And when his sorrows came as fast as floods,
Hope kept his heart 'till comfort came again.
When the poor cripple by the pool did lie,
Full many years in misery and pain,
No sooner he on Christ had set his eye,
But he was well, and comfort came again.
No David, Job, nor Cripple in more grief;
Christ grant me Patience, and my hopes relief.
Liked the following as well, and have a question:
unattractive displays of nudity,
Why is it that only ugly people are overtaken by an urge to disrobe? </James Stenbeck>
I second that!
This is refreshing, written by a FReeper I see, well said.
The Kool-Aid will start to run out in the fall.
I still remember with glee the looks on their faces election night 1994 and 2002. Looking for a repeat.
You said - you. That meant me. And you were off to wherever you went.
constitutes a "personal attack"
I thought so. I said so. You disagree?
How politically aware were you back then?
Why don't you answer my questions?
You claimed that the protesters were "extensively" covered,in 1968.I said the coverage was biased.And now you ask me if it matters?
Are you having difficulty trying to follow this?
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