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Lack of hero leaves liberals languishing
Kennebec Journal ^ | June 26, 2005 | J.P. Devine

Posted on 06/26/2005 7:16:28 AM PDT by Fido969

Sunday, June 26, 2005

Lack of hero leaves liberals languishing

Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. E-mail this story to a friend Move to Augusta correct

"When America was on its knees, he brought us to our feet." So goes the buzz line for Ron Howard's "Cinderella Man," a summer hit describing the 1935 bravura victory of New Jersey's "Irish" Jimmy Braddock over Max Baer.

What I want to know now, Mr. and Mrs. Democratic America, is where our "Cinderella Man or Woman" is when we need him or her.

The Democratic Party is truly on its knees. Who will be our Jimmy Braddock and bring us to our feet?

These are sad, dark days. Even people who truly like us are getting ready to take out the going-to-the-wake blue suit.

Even clear, liberal comics who are on our side, such as Jon Stewart and Bill Maher, are making fun of us.

They're saying the Democratic Party has no plan, no vision and, at this date, no credible candidate who can go up against the Rove Machine. I agree.

If Bush succeeds in loading the Supreme Court with Clarence Thomas clones, the prospect of seeing Democrats actually -- not metaphorically, you understand, but physically -- thrown to the lions in Madison Square Garden is next.

We can point with pride to Gov. John Baldacci and Reps. Tom Allen and Mike Michaud, but unfortunately, as Maine goes, so does not go the nation.

Yes, we're only months away from becoming a chain gang. If we lose in 2006 and 2008, expect to see Democrats from every state working on the weed gangs along the highways from Alabama to North Dakota, shamed and humbled, dressed in orange jump suits with a big, white "DEMO" on the back.

We're going to be like Marlon Brando in the back of that cab, whining, "We could have been a contender."

The only magazines that will put us on the cover will be Arthritis Today and the J. Jill catalogue.

Even now, in Washington's better restaurants, neo-cons are getting the better tables.

And who is our "Cinderella Man" to be? Yes, Hillary is currently leading the pack, but she is a 1,000-foot lightning rod. Already Richard Mellon Scaife, the Darth Vader of the dark right, is lining up his forces to destroy her.

There is a book, a hatchet job, already on the stands with the "real secrets" of Hillary. Should she run, the Swift Boat Veterans Against Hillary would be running 24/7 commercials denying that she ever served in Vietnam and doesn't deserve the medals she doesn't have.

She can beat the wimpy George Allen of Virginia and Bill Frist, but John McCain? As the rumors of summer grow, who is out there who is our golden boy, our "Cinderella Man," who can lead us out of the desert, cutting short the 40 years of dry matzohs with cheap sauterne?

I can tell you that Howard Dean ain't our Moses. Even the hard-core base veterans blanched and quivered with gritted teeth when Dean recited his litany of stupid remarks. With honorable Jewish senators such as Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Eric Cantor of Virginia, and even the pathetic Norm Coleman of Minnesota, the "mostly white Christian" slug fell flat.

And most embarrassing was "... they never worked a day in their lives." Frist may be the anti-Christ, but in order to be a medical doctor, the man had to put in some long, tough, hard years to get where he is. And let's not forget Tom Delay, who started as a bug exterminator in Texas. Yes, he is Satan incarnate, but crawling under trailers in Sugar Land, Texas, qualifies as hard work.

It's getting late in liberal land. Do you know where our "Cinderella" is?

J.P. Devine is a free-lance writer who lives in Waterville.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: allen2008; bluestateblue; chairmandean; dnc; hillary2008; lostdems; maine; noideaparty; rats
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To: speedy

Barracuda won't eat or harm Teddy. Professional courtesy.
Pirhana, now....


21 posted on 06/26/2005 7:38:48 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Fido969
The Democratic Party is truly on its knees.

Well, I know of at least one Democratic White House intern of whom that is true ...

Who will be our Jimmy Braddock and bring us to our feet?

How about "Irish" Ted Kennedy? Oh, that's right ... he's a homicidal boozehound. Well, what about Robert "Sheets" Byrd? Yeah, that Klan thing might tarnish HIS halo. Ummmm ... Al Gore and Harry Reid? Sure, they're as charismatic as tepid oatmeal but at least Al Gore was Bill Clinton's vice president. Oh, I guess that's not much of a recommendation. There's always Howard Dean. But he's got that annoying habit of saying something stupid everytime he opens his word crack. Nancy Pelosi? Stepford Wife on meth. Barbara Boxer? America's fishwife.

I got it! Hillary Rodham Clinton. For one, her butt's big enough to run on its own. She can quote Saul Alinsky like a catechism. And you won't have to worry about her getting BJ's in the Oval Office. Besides, the media love her. And if you step out of line, she'll drub you like a rented mule. She's the perfect dominatrix for all you liberal girly-men who secretly yearn to be cuffed around by a Brunhildesque uberfrau.

22 posted on 06/26/2005 7:40:18 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Spktyr

Hee hee. And I pity the poor animal who goes in against Hillary. My money would be on the Hildebeast. She's vicious and gristly.


23 posted on 06/26/2005 7:41:03 AM PDT by speedy
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To: backhoe
Well said:

...the problem is, when the average voter really sees what the Dems, and the Left, want for ( from ) them, they want no part of it.

24 posted on 06/26/2005 7:44:43 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: speedy

Hi
I just want an opinion I am sending this to the local rag paper in response to a nutty letter to the editor yesterday, it was about how Bush ordered 9/11. Please let me know how this sounds. Thanks I always like input!

A small amount of people in this country are preoccupied with Michael Moron and the their Hatred of President Bush and fail to recognize the Islamic enemy. The fact is these people have no idea about the enemy that would (and have) cut the heads off of Americans and would like to make our country a Muslim one. Militant Islam has infiltrated every aspect of our great country, they are in our government they have positions with the CIA and FBI they have say in our schools.

Thousands of these people remain as normal as possible living among us as loving and patriotic Americans waiting for their orders to terrorize America, just like the 19 hijackers did. Yet some people with professional backgrounds write insane articles to your newspaper and they have no knowledge of the enemy. They are the blame American crowd. Remember Radical Islam will cut the heads off of Americans and if not stopped they will do it in this Country. Wake up people and study the enemy.


25 posted on 06/26/2005 7:45:57 AM PDT by angcat
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To: Fido969

liberals? what liberals? There are no liberals left.

There are only "progreeeeesives."

(/s)


26 posted on 06/26/2005 7:45:57 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Fido969

Liberalism was new and exciting in 1964 and won many converts. But those days are over. Liberals are aging badly and are not being replaced. Why would young people flock to the Liberal banner when Liberalism today is all about protecting the New Deal, the Great Society, and Rowe vs. Wade?
No hero will emerge from the likes of Charlie Rangel and Jerry Nadler. Your days are numbered, J.P., 'cause the times they are a-changing.


27 posted on 06/26/2005 7:46:17 AM PDT by RedRover (Dems: Avoid the rush! Stock up on lion repellant now!)
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To: Fido969
Do you know where our "Cinderella" is?

Yes, you typical example of Liberal Trash, right here:


28 posted on 06/26/2005 7:54:30 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Fido969
The only magazines that will put us on the cover will be Arthritis Today and the J. Jill catalogue.

LOL - can't catch breath - Too funny!!

29 posted on 06/26/2005 7:58:13 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Well... There you go again!)
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To: angcat

I like your spirit, angcat. Sounds good to me. Besides, anybody who roots for the Yankees is okay in my book (despite how awful they have been this year.)


30 posted on 06/26/2005 7:58:47 AM PDT by speedy
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To: Fido969
"Yes, he is Satan incarnate, but crawling under trailers in Sugar Land, Texas, qualifies as hard work."

Someone sure doesn't know Sugarland, Texas.

31 posted on 06/26/2005 8:00:04 AM PDT by blam
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To: speedy

Thanks speedy. And don't be so kind regarding Yanks. They suck. What's up with Bernie does he just want to retire and be a musician? I could not even watch yesterday. The Smets I love Willie Randolph but I don't want him to beat the pants out of us. I did not even know the Redsox went into first place till yesterday. Ok I have vented! AGAIN


32 posted on 06/26/2005 8:05:45 AM PDT by angcat
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To: Fido969
J.P. Devine is a free-lance writer who lives in Waterville.

J.P. Devine is gasping drama-queen who prances through (p)op-ed like Goldilocks through the Bear's house.

33 posted on 06/26/2005 8:06:56 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: Fido969
Do you know where our "Cinderella" is?

In a cell in Gitmo.

34 posted on 06/26/2005 8:09:24 AM PDT by pbear8 (Navigatrix, Tomas Torquemada Gentleman's Club - Ladies Auxiliary)
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To: angcat

Hey angcat -- I agree with your assessment of the Yankees -- I usually use a different forum to vent on that subject. This year is a lost cause. Did you know that the Yankees have a 40-year jinx? They collapsed in 1925, 1965 and now 2005, each time coming unexpectedly after a good run. The good news is, they recover pretty quickly. Money can do that for you. But their front office is horrible, and a lot of heads should roll, hopefully soon. It might actually be a good thing for them to lose a few more in a row, just to get some action.


35 posted on 06/26/2005 8:16:59 AM PDT by speedy
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To: GOPJ
You've identified the dem's biggest problem. They've become the party of liars. They lie to us, to themselves and to the fools who still vote for them. The MSM lies for them, lies about them, and covers their lies when bloggers expose them. And still they wonder, "why doesn't anyone trust us?"

You've nailed it except for the last sentence.

The only thing they're wondering is how they can force us to trust them.

36 posted on 06/26/2005 8:18:04 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: GOPJ

37 posted on 06/26/2005 8:18:44 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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To: IronJack

You have a way with words...


38 posted on 06/26/2005 8:23:43 AM PDT by dakine
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To: IronJack
What do I get the feeling you've figured them out... --

Hillary Rodham Clinton... She's the perfect dominatrix for all you liberal girly-men who secretly yearn to be cuffed around by a Brunhildesque uberfrau.

39 posted on 06/26/2005 8:25:13 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: bill1952

Susan Estrich isn't really one of them. She's FOX and she's got integrity. Other than that, congrats on some great PICS!


40 posted on 06/26/2005 8:27:50 AM PDT by GOPJ
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