Posted on 05/03/2005 2:10:11 PM PDT by EveningStar
Most of Mrs. Bush's humor at the correspondents' dinner was just right: Edgy but not over the edge. But I think the stripper and horse jokes were totally beneath her.
Just put it to the other-shoe test: If it were Teresa Heinz Kerry standing up on the dais telling the same jokes, the conservative commentariat would be buzzing for the rest of the year about what a tasteless skank she is.
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I know that even our Republican congressmen have supported and voted in favor of quite a few man hating, family breaking laws against fatherhood, but our First Lady should not have pandered to the rebellious, "progressive" old battleaxe herd against families.
To be conservative is to love traditional family structure, and typical, leftist obfuscation cannot hide that fact.
Suffice it to say that I think you know that very, very few people seriously believe that Laura Bush shouldn't make a public address. You are throwing "Taliban" around to many more than just these few.
Some good christians believe Laura Bush shouldn't have made a couple of comments that she made. That doesn't make us members of the Taliban. I would have thought similar jokes were cheap coming from a man as well...say if it were Dick Cheney who had made them.
I've already said I made a mistake about that comment THREE friggin times now and this will be the last.
I will on the other hand CONTINUE to call you a liberal TROLL even though you have been here LONGER than I have.
Troll.
You're a paranoid schizophrenic. To you everyone is a troll, a phony Christian, a newbie, or a Muslim head chopper in disguise. You probably do think you're King Tut at times. They make drugs that can help you.
I listen to a lot of talk radio, christian talk radio. With rare exception, the party and probably to a point Mr. Rove marketed the President as a Christian man divinely guided by God and placed in the job by God himself. They put the President and the First Lady on a religious pedestal. They were people who had to look modeate, but they really believed as the more strident evangelicals. The christian right bought it, hook, line and sinker. Almost to a man, even the most ardent pro lifers abandoned one of their own (the constitution party candidate) for Mr. Bush. Not only was the election expected to be close, as it was, but I even heard some very ardent consitution party supporters admit that the President was the right Christian man who wouldn't disappoint them, becasue being a lame duck, he didn't have to worry about re-election again. Get him elected, and he would pay the Christians back for their support by advancing their agenda.
The President has had some setbacks recently. And the Schiavo incident further hurt him in the eyes of the pro life right when he didn't personally swoop in and rescue here or force Jeb to do it. His support for Delay was late and for a while luke warm. All this has caused the RR to feel pushed aside.
Let's face it. The jokes were a tad blue at best if one is honest about it. Especially the horse joke. But to the RR it was just another slap in the face.
Again, a big part of this is the sales job the election team sold to the RR. The RR is now having buyer's remorse.
Oh, hon. It warms the cockles of my heart to read that someone like you who has such major issues with women and has posted the most innane posts about this matter thinks I'm nuttier than a fruitcake.
I wouldn't want to belong to any group that accepted you as a member.
Yours is a very interesting post. Something to think about. This is the kind of thread I can read and watch TV at the same time. Fun. Repetitious but fun.
LOL! How 'bout it.
"The RR is now having buyer's remorse."
Kerry appreciates your remorse.
it doesn't help to stick it in the eye of these people - I can understand having to perhaps challenge people in your base on an issue of substance, but for some flunky comedy skit for the media, why bother spending any political capital on an event like that?
Go for it, sweetie. Being called a troll by you is a badge of honor.
Well, people like you, who qualify for all those things. Yeah.
Ha Ha. I've voted for GW twice, Dole before that, Bush I twice, Reagan twice and Ford before that. So give it up. Read what I wrote. That's what I'm hearing from the RR.
I'll have to take time to re-read what you wrote, joesbuck and I appreciate the tone in which it was written. For now, Mr. Peach has reminded me we need to make a phone call.
Well, either you're ignorant about these things or you're trying to spread propaganda, because I can assure you that some people here do care. Maybe you don't like it, but denying it doesn't enhance your credibility.
Because we're not going to sit by and watch them trash the President and the First Lady without responding.
Go ahead and confirm your ignorance to everybody.
Thank you, Miss Gloria Steinem...
Why don't you go and burn a bra? OR a Bible?
It might be theraputic, but then again, it doesn't address your hilarious paranoia.
It is a nice theory, but where is the proof? I don't see the "Christian Right" in anger at the First Lady. As I stated in another posts where are the ..
Pope
Cardinals
Priests
Ministers
Orthodox Jews
Where is Dobson? Where are the Grahams? They haven't come out to denounce the First Lady.
The Christian Community is not angry, they aren't repulsed. There is nothing to support that claim. All you have are a few people on their own trying to stir dissent that just isn't there attempting to give the vast Majority a bad name.
As for the horse joke, I am being honest when I state there was nothing depraved. People have reduced it to a meaning it did not have. That is their own fault, not hers.
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