That's a great analogy. But I gotta tell ya this election is about sponge worthiness. To: 3D-Joy; 50mm; AGreatPer; calcowgirl; cindyTrueSupporter; concretebob; Disco Dave; Doctor Raoul; ...
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Posted on 10/21/2008 12:45:01 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee
Elitism the sit-com. Very good, L.N.
Hahaha! Good analogy! These are the useful idiots Lenin spoke of, I believe.
In my view, one of the problems with Conservatism is we have people who are not Conservatives populating our ranks.
This election has shown us who is wheat, and who is chaff.
Christopher Buckley=Chaff
Could it be that this epiphany was inchoate all along, and waiting only for his father's passing to manifest itself?
Then what do we say about Colin Powell, Peggy Noonan, and (any minute now) David Brooks?
Even Charlie Krauthammer has virtually endorsed Obama.
Looks like we've got the last ditch all to ourselves, y'all.
I am just too cynical. I see "yada yada yada" and translate it to "Soros's payment arrived in my Cayman account."
Disagree about Krauthammer, Chris Buckley’s back sliding could be due to a number of things, Elite Culture, the Dawning of a Liberal Democrat Capital Hill or perhaps book sales.
“Looks like we’ve got the last ditch all to ourselves, y’all.”
Disagree, at least two members of the writers spice guild have been spot on this election season when things look sunless, Mark Steyn and Jonah Goldberg, neither have wavered nor turned astray.
Especially Jonah Goldberg.
BTW, the miscreants over at the Atlantic deserve to be additions to the litany of chaff...
Thank you, very good article.
That's a great analogy. But I gotta tell ya this election is about sponge worthiness. If you want off my ping list get over it!
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I’ve read Buckley’s two columns on this — & I’m convinced it’s Oedipal for him, the metaphoric killing of the father. He doesn’t need a philosophy rejuvenation, he needs a psychiatrist. (He’s also apparently written a book, to be out next year, apparently from what I glean not very nice about growing up Buckley).
Parker is just ambitious, the old fashioned way: faux conservatives who attack conservatives get ongoing columns anywhere. (There’s a not-nice word for this).
Noonan has had issues with Bush since the beginning of the second term, when his “messaniac democracy” speeches scared her; she’s been looking for the hit back to conservatives.
George Will famously attacked George HW Bush as a lapdog. He is the Georgetown conservative McCain attacked in praising Palin.
Charles K — fairer than the rest, I’d say — has acknlowledged Palin’s strengths, but worries about her weakness on experience. He’s wrong, but he’s not going after her “style” compared to Obama’s.
Maybe worth remembering, in all this, that Mccain has never been a favorite among conservatives — too much apostasy, not enough orthodoxy, more attitude than ideas. Palin is what made many of us (at least, those like me) comfortable with him. The shock is
1) the attack on our own people, in an election season, i.e., in the middle of a political war when the stakes are so very high. Why do it? Who are you doing it for? To show yourself so fastidious means it’s about you, not anything else, and suggests a smallness of mind and character, in that the writers don’t understand the stakes.
2) To go further, though, and drift from not supporting the Republican ticket to endorsing the other side, is calculated lunacy. It is certainly contra to William Buckley’s wonderful diktat about supporting “the rightward most viable candidate.” It reminds me of those kids in college in the late 60’s, working so hard to offend the parents. That is to say, it’s like something that is drug-fueled, and certainly narcissistic.
8 and a half??? How did you do that?!
I've been seeing this schtuff about Krauthammer wavering, and it's nonsense. He wasn't a fan of the Palin choice, but he's not ready to throw Adam Smith overboard because of it.
Before going nuts, read this, and refer anyone who says C.K. has lost his mind to it as well.
Thanks for your kind words and thanks for the image of the lovely Ms. L-D. If only I really woke up to someone so beautiful.
Politics aside, she's an immense talent, made all the more amazing since she is in reality an old-money heiress (grandpa was the Louis-Dreyfus of the multi-national Dreyfus financial empire), but she paved her own way as if she was a pauper (why else would she have been in the monstrosity called Troll, playing fourth or fifth fiddle to June Lockhart and Sonny Bono?). I've been a fan of hers since she stole the show as the wacky "pop-in" neighbor in the short-lived sitcom Day by Day, which also introduced another hyphenated hot babe to the world: Courtney Thorne-Smith.
There’s a conservative case for Obama just like there’s a Muslim case for eating porkchops.
"In their lavishing praise on Mr. Obama’s smarts, they seem not to have considered the possibility that the Senator’s genius towers over theirs so completely, he may have (in The One’s own words) “hoodwinked” them into buying into a philosophy that is the antithesis of all they held dear – that is, of course, until he became all they held dear. "
Gee, would the magic One be so devious?
Or did Tina slip an LSD or psilocybin mickey in his drink?
Actually, Psilocybin Mickey is registered to vote in Florida twenty times. :)
It must be hell to live that unsure of oneself.
L.N., thank you so much for your kind words! |
18½ posted on 10/21/2008 10:25:12 AM EDT by Courtney Thorne-Smith (It wasn't WildCatClan. No it wasn't!)
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Smithee, you luck dog!
They pass out the stamps and mickeys with the ACORN registration forms?
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