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Mark Steyn: Obama makes Hillary look like Bill Richardson
OC Register ^ | 2.23.08 | Mark Steyn

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.

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To: Slings and Arrows
Post #48

LOL!!

61 posted on 02/23/2008 8:43:50 AM PST by The Citizen Soldier ("There is only one reason to be a Christian: because it's true" – Francis Schaeffer)
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To: maggief

That’s quite a picture. Babs looks like Walter Matthau in drag.


62 posted on 02/23/2008 8:50:31 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: The Citizen Soldier

Thanks! “It ain’t funny if it ain’t true!”


63 posted on 02/23/2008 8:51:29 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
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To: The Citizen Soldier

I can’t believe how easy it was to get the party folks to follow McCain. If we brought up what’s been said about him on this forum since 2000, he is easily the most unpopular Republican. But people are circling the wagons just like the party elites want.

Dole was the worst GOP candidate I ever voted for. I wanted to wretch voting for him. I can’t vote for a political enemy. No McCain.


64 posted on 02/23/2008 8:58:22 AM PST by Luke21
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To: gunnedah
Hillary came into this campaign thinking she had it locked up and knew the big advantage she had would protect her from the men being aggressive toward her.

Hillary came into the campaign as if it were a poker game. "I'm in!" Such an inelegant way to announce one's candidacy.

65 posted on 02/23/2008 8:58:56 AM PST by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Don't let Bill back into the White House to defile it again.)
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To: knews_hound

Bill Richardson, wasn’t he the guy that Bill clinton sent to bail out the Taliban when Masood and the Northern alliance were making good headway against them?


66 posted on 02/23/2008 9:10:38 AM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: knews_hound

May I be added to the NEW Mark Steyn Ping List? Thanks!


67 posted on 02/23/2008 9:11:56 AM PST by Museum Twenty (Proudly supporting President George W. Bush - Proudly shouting "Rumsfeld '08!")
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To: hosepipe
Utter Nonsense. I am sick of this misinformation campaign
by the McCain haters.
Soros has donated to all leaders in both parties for two reasons. And its the oldest political trick in the book and you fell for it.
He knows it will give people like you reason to dislike McCain and two , he knows people like you will use it to stir dissent in the Repub ranks.
Soros is pouring millions into his radical socialist fraud Obama .
He donate a small amount to some McCain related organization. McCain’s people probably have already returned the check but it won’t show up in any reports !
68 posted on 02/23/2008 9:22:03 AM PST by ncalburt
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To: Luke21
I can’t believe how easy it was to get the party folks to follow McCain. If we brought up what’s been said about him on this forum since 2000, he is easily the most unpopular Republican. But people are circling the wagons just like the party elites want.

Words (and legislation) mean things.

I fell your pain - No McCain.

69 posted on 02/23/2008 9:24:13 AM PST by The Citizen Soldier ("There is only one reason to be a Christian: because it's true" – Francis Schaeffer)
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To: knews_hound

Steyn is shilling for McCain, as I predicted he would long ago here. Rush will be next.


70 posted on 02/23/2008 9:25:13 AM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: maggief

Kato Kaelin isn’t aging well.


71 posted on 02/23/2008 9:27:24 AM PST by JZelle
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To: knews_hound
But, if he (Bill Clinton) hadn't been dropping his pants and appealing to so many of their social pathologies, his party wouldn't have been half so enthusiastic for another chorus of "I Like Ike." Hillary is what the Clintons look like with their pants up.

Yes, at his best.

72 posted on 02/23/2008 10:02:59 AM PST by GOPJ (Do the editors of the L.A. Times realize that illegal immigration is, you know, illegal? Patterico)
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To: knews_hound
“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 don’t know how you can be friends with someone like that. Unavoidable acquaintances, perhaps, because of social circles, but not friends.

It’s often all I can do to keep from clocking some of the liberals among my acquaintances. If one of them jabbed his finger in my chest and said something like that, he’d be looking for his teeth.

74 posted on 02/23/2008 10:34:08 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (If Hillary is elected, her legacy will be telling the American people: Better put some ice on that.)
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To: knews_hound

The non stop parade of pantsuits was undignified and brought her down too. You cannot dress in pantsuits all the time and be taken seriously


75 posted on 02/23/2008 10:42:37 AM PST by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<<<||||>>>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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To: knews_hound
Factual....Cuts to the Bone....and COOLLLL


76 posted on 02/23/2008 10:49:19 AM PST by Fred (Looking Forward to Impeaching the other Clinton)
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To: egginanest
eggg...Obama cannot take his eyes off of Hillary for one second....always up to no good.....

In this pic Bill Clinton is behind Obama on his hands and knees while Hillary is saying 'look Obama its Halley's Comet', Obama looks then Hill moves in for the big push...
77 posted on 02/23/2008 10:54:29 AM PST by Fred (Looking Forward to Impeaching the other Clinton)
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To: knews_hound
Clinton Leads Among Gay Super Delegates

ROTFLMAO!!!!

78 posted on 02/23/2008 11:13:59 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: knews_hound

bump


79 posted on 02/23/2008 11:18:44 AM PST by vrwc54
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To: knews_hound

Another classic from Steyn.


80 posted on 02/23/2008 11:42:40 AM PST by ContraryMary (New Jersey -- Superfund cleanup capital of the U.S.A.)
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