Posted on 02/23/2008 6:34:32 AM PST by knews_hound
On the day that Margaret Thatcher was toppled by her own party, I ran into an old friend, a hard-core leftist playwright, Marxist to the core, who wasn't as happy as he should have been. He jabbed me in the chest. "You bastards on the right!" he fumed. "You wouldn't even let us be the ones to drive the stake through her heart."
I'm sure in America's Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy there are similar mixed feelings. The Clintons have met their Waterloo but it's not some doughty conservative warrior who gets to play Duke of Wellington, only some freshman pap peddler of liberal boilerplate whom no one had heard of the day before yesterday.
Such are the vicissitudes of politics. I see from the gay newspaper the Washington Blade that, as the headline writer put it, "Clinton Leads Among Gay Super Delegates." Only in the Democratic Party. I don't know how many supergays it takes to outvote the nonsuper primary and caucus voters from Maine to Nevada to Hawaii. They may yet pull Sen. Clinton's chestnuts out of the fire, but they're looking pretty charred and indigestible right now. Unlike the Fall of Thatcher, it's nothing so glamorous as an act of matricide, but just the nightly hell of a tired vaudeville act that can no longer find the spark.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
"She has a melancholy dignity in decline. She knows she would make the better president, but every time she tries to explain why it sounds prosaic and unromantic. Bill gave the party an appetite for slick lounge acts, and this time round Barack's the guy delivering it in buckets of gaseous uplift. Can Barbra Streisand and the Supergays get Hillary airborne again? I doubt it. Go back to that Staples Center entrance in 2000, and try to imagine Hill walking that walk. How far would she get before the applause died away and she'd be padding that endless corridor to no audible accompaniment but the clack of her heels?"
Steyn can write one hellava piece.
No doubt about it. This one is especially Steyntastic.
Ditto and might I add, smokin..!! Too many zingers to count and every one of them right on target, CEP = 0.
If McCain is a Soros-man, he is a Soros-light. McCain was a useful idiot to Soros WRT campaign finance “reform”, but on most other issues, he is anathema to Soros.
Mark says exactly what I’ve been saying. Obama does what Bill did.
This mornng on F&F some empty suit said, “I’ve never seen anyone with such a meteoric rise as Obama.”
I looked at my hubby and said, “Where what this guy in 1992?”
Steyn is right.
May I be added to the NEW Mark Steyn Ping List? Thanks!
“McCain was a useful idiot to Soros WRT campaign finance reform, but on most other issues, he is anathema to Soros.”
Yeah, they completely disagree on open borders and global warming. No, wait...
What do you mean IF...
McLaim is supported by Soros, the Tides Foundation and the Rockefellers..
The boy is filthy..
This article about Barack Obama by David Kahane in the National Review Online is excellent. His next to the last paragraph is right on the money:
"But now the magic is beginning to wear off. Instead of the second coming of Jesus Christ, some of us are beginning to sense the second coming of Jim Jones. Instead of a new redeemer, were looking at an undistinguished first-term senator with no paper trail, a wife with a major-league chip on her shoulder, a politician from the insalubrious precincts of Bathhouse John Coughlin and Hinky Dink Kennas old hometown of Chicago."
It is time to stop being afraid to critize Obama.
Please add me to your Mark Steyn ping list.
Good luck with that!
Great article. Thanks.
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Thanks for the pingy, Meek!
Yes’m !!
thank you for the ping; good article!
Too bad, as Steyn says, it’s someone like Obama who is putting the stake through her......
: )
I wonder if she’s stressed out at all.
lolol!
You owe me a dandruff comb (scratching my head on #11).
I hope so !!
I agree. Wonderful piece.
bumperoo!
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