[VRWC_minion]

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

[Judith Anne]

Ping!

[Bahbah]

"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.

[RippleFire]

bump

[Lurker]

"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

[John Thornton]

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."

[theophilusscribe]

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)

[P-Marlowe]

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!

[Shooter 2.5]

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.

[cyncooper]

Well, this was a bracing read. Quite sensible.

[Harpo Speaks]

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.

[jnarcus]

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

[Libertarianize the GOP]

fyi

[El Gato]

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.

[robertpaulsen]

"... greater levels of putrid pablum spewed about by the media as the preening pundits of puce prevarication ..."

[Petronski]

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?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

An ode to Patience:

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.

[AlbionGirl]

Very good piece. I especially liked his decomposing corpses metaphor, with special defect going to baby huey moore, 'that's a whole lot of deconstructin' goin on.' </fritz hollings>

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>

[Mister Baredog]

"Please get your knickers untwisted and your game face on."

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.

[Billthedrill]

Sage advice, no doubt, but the metaphor's a little thin for my taste. In the first place, no accomplished duellist takes a head shot, however patient, and that should apply to politics as well. In the second, duels only happen when both sides agree to the rules. When the other side says it intends to cheat, cheats, crows about cheating, and then accuses you of cheating in response to your objections, the proper response is, IMHO, to pick up the nearest ballbat and have at it. So much for politesse; politics is, at its worst, described as a blood sport but is merely bloody.

Mind you, it is extremely rich to see party zealots who have been spending four years and considerable sums of money systematically defaming Bush to now make a shocked observation that things are turning strident. They are not; what is happening is that a beating is turning into a fight. Too bad for the bullies.