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Jumping the Gun: Why the National Review Editors Need to Chll Out
American Digest ^ | July 22, 2004 | Gerard Van der Leun

Posted on 07/22/2004 4:35:45 PM PDT by vanderleun

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1 posted on 07/22/2004 4:35:48 PM PDT by vanderleun
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To: vanderleun

Well done. Just like a good steak. Or is it a good wooden stake ?


2 posted on 07/22/2004 4:40:53 PM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: Howlin; SheLion; metesky; JustPiper; nopardons; hellinahandcart; Gabz; Miss Marple

Ping!


3 posted on 07/22/2004 4:43:48 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Just another Bush-bot biddy drinking that Republican KoolAid.)
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To: vanderleun

"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."

This is a very nice sentence, but, in fact, the entire piece is right on the mark. IMHO. We don't need the president to come out swinging when the other guys are destroying themselves.


4 posted on 07/22/2004 4:46:00 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: vanderleun

bump


5 posted on 07/22/2004 4:46:08 PM PDT by RippleFire ("It was just a scratch")
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To: vanderleun
"That's going to be a fool's festival not seen since the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968."

From the writers keyboard to Gods ear.

L

6 posted on 07/22/2004 4:53:57 PM PDT by Lurker (Rope, tree, liberal. Some assembly required.)
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To: vanderleun
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.

How will it be reported? "Patriotic Americans gassed by jackbooted Republican thugs."

7 posted on 07/22/2004 4:54:19 PM PDT by John Thornton
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To: vanderleun
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.

Bush is awesome at rope-a-dope. I am awaiting a good time this fall. :o)

8 posted on 07/22/2004 4:56:39 PM PDT by theophilusscribe ("America is too great for small dreams." —Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: vanderleun
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.

Bring ... It ... On!

9 posted on 07/22/2004 4:57:00 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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Oh, BS. This isn't a duel. This is trying to convert as many people as you can. Get the message out fast, often and continually.Let's get the message out because we're against the liberal media.
10 posted on 07/22/2004 4:59:54 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Vote a Straight Republican Ballot. Rid the country of dems.)
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To: P-Marlowe

By the time the media sanitizes the footage, it will look like an American Legion convention. Does anyone really think they would show us these people as they really are?


11 posted on 07/22/2004 5:00:32 PM PDT by John Thornton
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To: vanderleun

Well, this was a bracing read. Quite sensible.


12 posted on 07/22/2004 5:01:22 PM PDT by cyncooper ("We will fear no evil...And we will prevail")
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To: vanderleun

This sounds supisciously like the same game plan used by George Bush, Sr. in '92. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for him to come out swinging...and all the time, the GOP elite counselled us to wait...it's coming!

Well it never came, and Bush lost to a draft-dodging, dope-smoking, philandering SOB. Whenever I hear the GOP elites talking like this it sounds like they're selling us a one-way ticket to loserville.


13 posted on 07/22/2004 5:08:32 PM PDT by Harpo Speaks
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To: John Thornton
Just imagine what they will bring to the news of the day.

How will it be reported?

I completely agree. There are just TOO MANY who can't get it into their heads that the leftwing 'mainstream' want to 'get-Bush' - BOOSH is the real enemy!

However they have to spin it, that's how they'll spin it. It's that crude. It's that simple. People just can't accept that, because it's so horrible. And it is. It really is.

The alternative is that people are voting, I don't know how many, based on the web, sites like this, listening to Rush and others, and generally taking an attitude that the truth is more important than being a couch potato and allowing the alphabet net sportscaster, or the sitcom star, or the 'live performance' hero, or this 'anchor', or that network 'fun-babe' to tell them not just what to think, but literally what's happening in the great big world out there. You have to 'get up off your . . '. And even though people are typing things in, here, from the comfort of their homes, etc., it's not just sitting around being spoonfed propaganda.

Be optimistic. That's not being pollyanish. Reagan had it right.

14 posted on 07/22/2004 5:09:27 PM PDT by sevry
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To: vanderleun

Just because you repost some of your writings from another blog site doesn't mean that it isn't a vanity post....You must be desperate


15 posted on 07/22/2004 5:11:26 PM PDT by jnarcus
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To: youngrepublican1986; AirBorn

fyi


16 posted on 07/22/2004 5:12:46 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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To: vanderleun
The media will not show the fools and criminals demonstrating rioting at the Republican Convention. At least not up very close, and they will quote or interview only the milder "protesters".

Meanwhile they will penalized whatever October Surprise the Dims come up with, or worse the one Osama and company comes up with. Either way, the message will be, "It's Bush's fault". Whatever "it" is.

17 posted on 07/22/2004 5:24:24 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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"... greater levels of putrid pablum spewed about by the media as the preening pundits of puce prevarication ..."

18 posted on 07/22/2004 5:27:12 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: Judith Anne
Many thanks for the ping! :-)

This article reiterates what I have been posting for months here.None of us should be chaffing at the bit,for "RED MEAT" now,when it's only breakfast.Dinner will start being served up in a month.

19 posted on 07/22/2004 5:35:13 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: John Thornton

No,not this time and that is NOT how it was being reported in '68 either.


20 posted on 07/22/2004 5:36:58 PM PDT by nopardons
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