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.
You don't want poisoned Kool-Aid. You don't want any of that. I believe the National Review simply said that the GOP seemed remarkably silent in the face of constant criticism over these last months, nothing but misinformation, and so on. Yes, much has been countered by the various reports, themselves. But the press won't clear much of it up, themselves. Why not . . the GOP? What's wrong with asking for that? I don't see a problem.
Well, again, pardon me, 'nopardons', but that again sounds like a personal attack. Why can't you just make your point, and leave it at that?
You claimed that the protesters were "extensively" covered,in 1968
I said no such thing.
Is calling YOU and those like you here,armchair warriors who dispense silly political advice,posted to a web site,a personal attack? REALLY? Not on this site it isn't.
You aren't going to last long here,if that's what you imagine is a personal attack. LOL
I hate to drag out "lipstick on a pig" again, but I will. The sewer Rats, in all their mangy putrid "glory", are one big, ugly, smelly sow. The media can and will try to clean it and pretty it up as much as they can, but there isn't enough lipstick in the world to even start making this porker presentable.
When I was 11,I had a set bedtime,which did NOT change just because school was out.
And what precisely would that 'silly advice' be? Was it when I suggested we consider the heart-felt optimism of Reagan, when the media wants to tear people apart and having them hate, and perhaps only hate the Dem a little less?
grow up! . . . aren't going to last long . . . you imagine is a personal attack.
It seems like it is. I don't think you're supposed to do that. Are you?
I really just don't find that interesting. I'm sorry.
You seem to be taking a very great deal of umbrage concerning my questions and posts to John Thornton and now answering for him/her.You're also claiming that you said "no such thing",in response to something John Thornton and I were discussing.
Could you please clarify why that is?
I think you missed the point.
Agree - Incumbents that win don't surge late - This is a whole new strategy for an incumbent to win reelection.... if this is what the WH is up to.
What I just don't get is why we act like we have to "hold our powder" - wait till the end - but the DEM's they can go full blast - beginning, middle and end (yes, they aren't going to quit as Nov nears...they are only going to run more ads and me more pro-active) -
And this is what I don't get - The idea that we should allow false premise after false premise to be set (by not responding early) - I just don't understand -
Why don't we set the record straight all through the election cycle (it is as if we are just trying to "fool them" at the end (the American public).....to pull of the victory) -
If I was going to personally attack you,YOU WOULD KNOW IT!
You're NOT supposed to "bait" people,but that's what you're doing.
The silly advice is the rest of that post,which preceded the Reagan optimism shibboleth.
My point exactly.
It just seemed like a personal attack, actually, in a couple of messages now, in this thread.
Remember, Karen Hughes is coming onboard in August! She's good!
Then why are you? If you want to discuss some thread, just do so. Why make everything so personal with others here, who just might disagree with you? Just allow for that. We disagree. Fine.
Butt out! MYOB! So's yuour old man..and any other schoolyard jibes you might finally understand.
Yes,she is.
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