1 posted on
06/09/2005 9:04:23 AM PDT by
CHARLITE
To: CHARLITE
That's OK. We don't want them to win.
To: listenhillary; bitt; purpleland; Beth528; nothingnew; Congressman Billybob; Blurblogger; ...
3 posted on
06/09/2005 9:08:36 AM PDT by
CHARLITE
(I propose a co-Clinton team as permanent reps to Pyonyang, w/out possibility of repatriation....)
To: CHARLITE
Democrat party jackasses braying do not a pretty picture make.
5 posted on
06/09/2005 9:10:44 AM PDT by
FormerACLUmember
(Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
To: CHARLITE
7 posted on
06/09/2005 9:12:33 AM PDT by
firewalk
To: CHARLITE
It would be great to "plant" some quotes like this out there attributed to Bush or high elected officials of the GOP, just to watch the firestorm and then make comparisons on the MSM's profound lockstep complicity with the Dems.
8 posted on
06/09/2005 9:14:21 AM PDT by
cookcounty
(Army Vet, Army Dad.)
To: CHARLITE
Peggy is too gracious here.
9 posted on
06/09/2005 9:14:42 AM PDT by
Enterprise
(Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
To: CHARLITE
Calm. Thoughtful. Mature. Big picture. Long view.
I like Peggy. As much as Bush/Frist drive me nutty sometimes, I'm grateful that they conduct their business in a serious, methodical way that is based, for the most part, on fairly conservative principles. Perfect? Certainly not. But at least they lean toward our constitutions version of what gov't is supposed to be.
I really want to just say something positive and so I will...not...make...any...comparisons.
13 posted on
06/09/2005 9:27:12 AM PDT by
mad puppy
( "He's with me!" And I'm with W.)
To: CHARLITE
Peggy nails it. Unfortunately the Democrat base has lost touch with mainstream America. Most people don't tune in to the political scene until election time but the pure vitreol of the left is getting through to more and more people and far from being persuasive its turning people away.
To: CHARLITE
Conclusion by Peggy Noonan:
There is a tradition of political generosity that prevails among the normal people of America, a certain live-and-let-live-ness. That is why Little League games don't break out in fistfights, at least over politics. You don't shun people in the neighborhood because they're Democrats, and you don't inform the Republican in the next cubicle that he is evil, lazy and racist. That just doesn't play in America. There are breaches, exceptions, incidents. We are not angels. But by and large even though we disagree with each other, and even if we come to dislike each other, we maintain, for reasons both moral and practical, decorum. Civility. We keep a lid on it. We don't lower it to the level of invective. We don't by nature seek to divide.
When you have been in Washington long enough and have become consumed by your place in the political struggle, you can lose sight of the American arrangement. You can become harsh and shrill. You can become the sort of person who would start the fight at the Little League game. You can become--how might a columnist, as opposed to a political leader, put it?--a jackass. But not a funny one, a destructive one, the type that can knock down the barn it took the farmer years to build.
The comportment of Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean is actually not worthy of America. Their statements suggest they are in no way equal to the country they seek to lead. And something tells me that sooner or later America is going to tell them. But in a generous, mature and fair-minded way.
16 posted on
06/09/2005 9:28:20 AM PDT by
OESY
To: CHARLITE
[Republicans]would find talk like that to be extreme, damaging, desperate. They would understand it would tend to add a new level of hysteria to political discourse, and that's not good for the country. I think they would know such talk is unworthy in a leader, or potential leader, of a great democracy. I think they would understand that talk like that is destructive to the ties that bind--and to the speaker's political prospects.
This conduct is the CLINTON LEGACY- it was unprecedented; to wit:
If a President disgraces the WH and the Country by fornicating with an 18 year old intern, he resigns or he's impeached- that should be an inviolative principle. I doubt there is a Freeper who if, GWB ever engaged in such conduct (which obviously he wouldn't)- would not hold that he should resign his office.
After engaging in such conduct, however, Clinton waged nuclear war between the parties to maintain his power. The DEMS placed their desire to maintain Power, over their Duty to the preeminent principle of safeguarding the dignity of the Presidency and this Country.
It was this DEM Betrayal, that represents the etiology of the existing Hatred. The DEMS sold their souls.
19 posted on
06/09/2005 9:41:14 AM PDT by
sirthomasthemore
(I go to my execution as the King's humble servant, but God's first!)
To: CHARLITE
Howard Dean as leader of the DNC - the gift that just keeps on giving!
To: CHARLITE
you don't inform the Republican in the next cubicle that he is evil, lazy and racist. That just doesn't play in America.I was discussing this the other day with a Dem friend. He had told me that he thought I had become narrow minded since I left LA and moved to flyover country and that it was because I was no longer exposed to diversity.
My reply was that it was exactly the opposite. Here in flyover country, we actually have ideological diversity. Here, I don't get called 'nazi' very often when I express an opinion that differs from Howard Dean's. It happened all the time in LA. So I don't know what Peggy is talking about. Liberals shut conservatives up all the time with nasty, personal comments--at least on the left coast.
To: CHARLITE
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