[Cincinatus' Wife]

Elites just can't stand being left in the dust by "cowboys."

[johnny7]

What's 'ol Howell doing now?! Craps like him never flush completely... some PC group will scoop him out of the bowl.

Funny how the NYTimes still keeps on lying without him... not even skipping a beat.

Thank God for the internet and FOXNews!

[AmishDude]

The answer, Mr. Raines, is yes and you, therefore, don't qualify.

[lonestar]

My guess is that GWB's IQ is higher than JFK's. After both graduated from Yale, GWB got into Harvard Business school and JFK couldn't get into Harvard law school.

[an amused spectator]

"Somewhere in Texas," the bumper sticker said, "A Village Is Missing Its Idiot."

I heard that line when I was counter-protesting in the midst of a Bush-hater crowd at one of Bush's campaign stops.

My very loud retort, directed at the speaker and his laughing fellow semi-literates? "I didn't know Kerry was from Texas!"

That shut 'em down right quick. ;-)

[an amused spectator]

IT was in the parking lot of Cramer's Home Center in Pocono Summit, Pa., less than seven miles from a NASCAR track, in a pivotal battleground state, on the back of a battered work van, that we saw the first one.

"Somewhere in Texas," the bumper sticker said, "A Village Is Missing Its Idiot." The next showed up at the Home Depot on the back of an equally battered pickup driven by a tough-looking kid dressed for construction work. It said: "Bush," and then, "Like a Rock Only Dumber."

Battered work truck. Battered pickup. I saw a Kerry sticker on a old, rusting pickup truck yesterday. It also had an IBEW emblem.

I was going to stop the guy and ask him if he felt that the multi-billionaire could run things better for guys like him, who obviously didn't have the wherewhithal to make intelligent enough choices to enable himself to get a better vehicle, like mine.

But I took pity on the poor, underinformed dear. :-)

[an amused spectator]

Voters are doubly disadvantaged, by both a paucity of information in campaign coverage and by the elusive nature of the evidence about the kinds of intelligence that matter in our leaders.

"Howlell" still can't get it right: "Voters are quadruply disadvantaged, by a paucity of information in campaign coverage, by the elusive nature of the evidence about the kinds of intelligence that matter in our leaders, by a Democrat media machine that lies like a freaking rug about its Republican political enemies, and refuses to make the simplest inquiries about the "war-hero" tall tales of its Democrat standard bearer."

[an amused spectator]

Bush's former counselor Karen Hughes, in her awkwardly named book Ten Minutes From Normal, assures us that what "Bush does best of all" is "ask questions that bore to the heart of the matter." She says that during the 2000 campaign she and a "brilliant" issues staff "never once succeeded" in anticipating all of Bush's penetrating questions. "He has a laser-like ability," Hughes writes, "to reduce an issue to its core."

I know guys like George W. Bush, and I'm willing to take direct orders from them. I'm a really, really bright educated guy. I'd love to see "Howlell" Raines manning a chain saw. I'd quietly sidle away, and let the "brilliant" Raines drop a log on himself, and make sure I wasn't in the line of fire. Elitist guys like Raines are used to giving orders to people who work for money - they have NO idea what to do when the troops find that mere money is no longer enough. Witness what happened when Raines jacked things up at the New York Times. ;-)

In regard to Iraq and the war on terror, though, there's little evidence in the public record of such Bush interventions. We have been told instead that George Tenet, then director of central intelligence, successfully misled Bush by assuring him that the evidence on Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction was "a slam-dunk."

Hey, Howell, "super-genius". Let me move in next to your mansion, shoot it up for a week, then give me a year before the cops bust into my house to search it.

Effing jerk - it would take CSI times 1000 to prove that I had the weapons to shoot up your manse.