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Mark Steyn: The Best-Laid Five-Minute Plans of Bill Richardson.
NRO ^ | 30 dec 07 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 12/30/2007 8:06:30 AM PST by rellimpank

It’s tempting to rerun my column on Pakistan from a month ago. Not because I predicted the assassination of Benazir Bhutto or offered any other great insight, but rather for the opposite reason: “Everyone’s an expert on Pakistan, a faraway country of which we know everything: General Musharraf should do this, he shouldn’t have done that, the State Department should lean on him to do the other… Well, I dunno. It seems to me a certain humility is appropriate when offering advice to Islamabad.”

Oh, well. In the stampede of instant experts unveiling their Pakistani solutions-in-a-box, some contributions are worthy of special attention. Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who is apparently running for the Democratic presidential nomination, was in no doubt about what needs to happen in the next, oh, 48 hours:

“President Bush should press Musharraf to step aside, and a broad-based coalition government, consisting of all the democratic parties, should be formed immediately... It is in the interests of the U.S. that there be a democratic Pakistan that relentlessly hunts down terrorists.”

Wow. Who knew it was that easy?

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; pakistan; richardson; steyn; wot
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---good wrap-up of the position of Monica's pimp--
1 posted on 12/30/2007 8:06:31 AM PST by rellimpank
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2 posted on 12/30/2007 8:08:41 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Mitt.... despite what some here are saying. it wasn’t a lie! It was a BLUNDER...by Romney supporter.)
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To: rellimpank

Whew, I thought we were going to have a discussion of Slick Willies female conquests.

Its just about Richardson who probably has to beg for the best 5 minutes. LOL


3 posted on 12/30/2007 8:09:11 AM PST by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: rellimpank

Chalk it up to another f’up in picking leaders for other countries. Why are we so unprepared for such a happening - this event should have been thought out earlier, not now.


4 posted on 12/30/2007 8:10:32 AM PST by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: rellimpank
Richardson’s just a hildabeast minion, gather as many voters as possible in the Hispanic community,then hand them over as he drops out....as a result of his loyalty he’s given a cabinet post.
5 posted on 12/30/2007 8:13:57 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: rellimpank
Now that's one serious back of the hand.
6 posted on 12/30/2007 8:17:31 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: rellimpank

Bill Richardson. What an inspiration to the mentally challenged everywhere.

Look at how far he’s gotten with his 55 IQ score.

If he can do it, anyone can.


7 posted on 12/30/2007 8:17:59 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: rellimpank
Richardson wins the prize for most fatuous foreign policy prescription of the 2008 election cycle.
8 posted on 12/30/2007 8:18:50 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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To: rellimpank
Notice how it is always Democrats who demand that the U.S. tell other countries how to run their business? And step in and run it for them, if they won't do it the way they're told?

Aren't these the same people who are, oh, so concerned about whether other countries like us? Who are oh, so dead set against "interventionism"?

Liberalism is a mental disease.

9 posted on 12/30/2007 8:19:42 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: rellimpank
consisting of all the democratic parties, should be formed immediately... It is in the interests of the U.S. that there be a democratic Pakistan that relentlessly hunts down terrorists.”

typical liberal blather, see, it's so easy. I think he should drop out of the race right now and implement his "plan" now, maybe he and Pelosi can have a sit down with the jihadist and sorta work it out.

10 posted on 12/30/2007 8:20:56 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Richardson has already been given the job as Hillary’s Secretary of State.

She is looking for a woman to be Secretary of Defense, just to rub it in those damn military people’s face. Claudia Kennedy is rumored to be her top pick.

/sarc


11 posted on 12/30/2007 8:22:02 AM PST by oldbill
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“Claudia Kennedy is rumored to be her top pick”

My blood ran cold until I saw the sarc tag. I fear that would not be out of the realm of possibility. If Claudia Kennedy were to gain such a position, that would surely be the end of the most powerful military the world has ever seen.

12 posted on 12/30/2007 8:30:51 AM PST by mesoman7
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To: rellimpank
POLITICO

The lieutenant governor of New Mexico, Diane Denish was quoted in the Albuquerque Journal saying she avoids standing or sitting near Richardson because of his physical manner, which she said was not improper but was "annoying." The governor, she said, "pinches my neck. He touches my hip, my thigh, sort of the side of my leg."

13 posted on 12/30/2007 8:32:08 AM PST by ricks_place
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—yeah—a real “hands-on” kind of guy—


14 posted on 12/30/2007 8:35:23 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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-—good wrap-up of the position of Monica’s pimp—”

Oh, Geeeez- I had forgotten his role in that farce.

Why doesn’t anyone bring that to the forefront these days and derail his campaign???


15 posted on 12/30/2007 8:39:48 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: samtheman

Bill Richardson. What an inspiration to the mentally challenged everywhere.

Look at how far he’s gotten with his 55 IQ score.

If he can do it, anyone can.”

I think I have a dufus Labrador with that much IQ.

He sure does seem to be trying to drag the Hispanic vote to the gates, doesn’t he?

They aren’t supposed to be voting anyway if they are illegals.


16 posted on 12/30/2007 8:41:17 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: mesoman7

“If Claudia Kennedy were to gain such a position, that would surely be the end of the most powerful military the world has ever seen.”

Perhaps, but it would be a military of kindness, compassion, and consideration of others.

Biggest danger is to other Cabinet Secretaries, whom she would probably be accusing of fondling her at Cabinet meetings and demanding investigations.


17 posted on 12/30/2007 8:42:23 AM PST by oldbill
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To: rellimpank

Richardson is running for VP. that is all.


18 posted on 12/30/2007 8:46:59 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: ridesthemiles

—short attention span on the part of the MSM—


19 posted on 12/30/2007 8:59:19 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Richardson wins the prize for most fatuous foreign policy prescription of the 2008 election cycle.

There, fixed!

20 posted on 12/30/2007 9:01:42 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Mitt.... despite what some here are saying. it wasn’t a lie! It was a BLUNDER...by Romney supporter.)
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