Posted on 11/20/2010 12:13:04 PM PST by American Dream 246
This annoys the hell out of me, because I'm not some rabid Palinista. Crap like this from Barbara Bush leaves one no alternative but to respond to it. What, does she have another son, or a grand kid lined up for the job of President? Reagan handed your husband his, despite some misgivings, and he blew it, Barbara.
And as much as I supported her husband and her son while they were in office, they've hardly gotten us to a great place. Guess what? If not for 9/11, GW may well have been a one-term-er, just like his father. He barely escaped losing to John freaking Kerry. In fact, he barely defeated Gore in 2000. So, just how wise is this new found Bush wisdom? I don't see much in the record to support it, short of the political calculations of some consultants concerned more with winning elections, than the nation's politics.
"I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful," Barbara Bush said. "And she's very happy in Alaska, and I hope she'll stay there."
Bush, along with her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, spoke to CNN's Larry King in an interview set to air Monday.
President Bush discussed the Tea Party movement, and although he said "some of the ideas make a lot of sense," he said he isn't sure how the new movement will fit into the larger political landscape.
Read my lips, the same can be said for the price of bread and broken tax pledges.
And as for Mona Charen's, Why Sarah Palin Shouldn't Run item at Townhall, congrats Mona, you finally found something to write about and make yourself relevant, again. I can't recall anything you've done in the last two years that's generated any real interest outside the usual Beltway set you write for. If Sarah Palin has a secret weapon, it's how distasteful and classless are so many of the GOP establishment types lined-up against her. If they were nearly as smart as they fancy themselves to be, they'd probably just shut-up and let the chips fall where they may.
I remember what a loser her husband was in 1992.
I’m sure the only “resume” which would pass muster with you would involve bombing abortion clinics or shooting of abortionists.
You have extremely poor reading comprehension if you would so cling to that last nickel of tax relief for the big shots as to risk them having to pay estate taxes of 55% while complaining that I would tax the rich. As per usual, you don't dare try to meet my argument head on any more than you care to post your non-existent resume. Same reason in both cases.
You seem to be satisfied to be a resentful keyboard warrior while others do the real work of the movement that you will not and probably cannot do. Opinions are like noses and that other body part. Everyone (other than Mayerling and Kid Shaleen) has a nose and everyone has that other body part. What you don't have is anything in the way of movement accomplishments or we would have read them posted by you long, long ago.
And continually bleating "Class warfare! Class warfare!" as though it were a one-way street puts you right up there intellectually with sub-100 IQ Muffy, Skipper, Barbara and their ilk.
2. Sarah Palin isn't alienating conservatives but some of her less judicious and overly impatient supporters may. Mrs. Palin is holding her cards to her vest and is in the process of deciding whether to run. The caucuses and primaries are a year away. She is not yet as obvious a choice as Ronaldus Maximus was but she may become as obvious a choice. Time will tell. Meanwhile, as Chairman Mao used to say, let a thousand flowers bloom!
3. Sarah has done very well without my advice and without yours for that matter. She isn't ready to endorse herself yet. What's your hurry?
4. Commie ticket??? I won't be voting for Obamao in any event and I bet you won't be either.
5. I gave you a partial resume in #156. Let's see yours!
Did you bomb abortion mills (not “clinics”) or kill abortionists? Would you like help reporting yourself to the authorities before further damaging the pro-life movement?
BTW, Barbara Bush has every right to make a fool out of herself by exercising her First Amendment rights to advertise her relentless elitism and utterly unjustified sense of superiority over Sarah Palin. It helps the uninitiated when they are sorting the political wheat from the chaff.
Barbara Bush is probably unique in our history in being the wife of one president, the mother of another president and a descendant of yet a third president (Franklin Pearce).
I have shown my "CONTROL problem" in a big way???? Is that because I believe that candidates for POTUS should be well-prepared and should have made the decision to run? Since when is competence and resolution not consistent with conservatism? Or increasing competence and increasing resolution? Ronald Reagan was no expert on the soviet union when he was a teenaged lifeguard in Dixon, Illinois. He was a liberal when he landed in Hollywood and became more liberal thereafter. For a variety of reasons, he recovered from that liberalism and ultimately became the best POTUS of our lifetimes. His policies ended the soviet union. It is the self discipline of the competent candidate and officeholder that brings about such results.
You are not interested in posting a probably non-existent resume. If you persist in braying like a jackass with little evident knowledge and no evident manners, conservatives will indeed know their own and know that you are a phony with a keyboard expressing impertinent opinions from a vacant brain pan.
Again, if Sarah Palin is your choice for POTUS, don't you think you should honor her decision-making process on her own candidacy if you want her running the nation for four to eight years? Who is the control freak if you cannot wait for the lady to make up her own mind to run? Has she an obligation of some sort to obey your whim?
If you insist on cheerleading for rash behavior, that becomes every conservative's business. So far, you look infinitely more like an embarrassment than like a conservative. Whether you want to prolong your stubborn march to humiliation rather than thinking things through is up to you. I guess that will have to be your "little game."
Let's see that non-existent resume.
Frothing whackjobs are those who fanatically support those who get 2% of the vote or less. No one is good enough for them. Their actions seem to work FOR the Democrats and have little positive impact on Conservatives issues which are used by them to hammer people over the head when they are confronted by political realities.
We see these sorts around every election cycle attempting sabotage of GOP candidates. They are dead to me.
Yeah, what is that number? 9 something, 9-1? gee I almost had it.
Jim Buckley (C-NY) dispatched Charlie Goodell, a Rockefeller appointee. Goodell was accurately described by then Vice President Spiro Agnew the Christine Jorgensen (a contemporary sex change subject of some fame) of the New York GOP. Jim Buckley was considerably more conservative than "Christine Jorgensen" Goodell or Nancyboy Kirk.
Charles Mathias of Maryland lost his seat to a Demonrat but no one noticed a difference in voting records. Mathias was a gentleman but no better than Nancyboy Kirk.
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., child of Greenwich privilege turned from early Bircher to latter day McGoverite (sorta like the voting record of Nancyboy who lacks only LoLo's inherited fortune and trust funds but has inherited his bad political habits) and Nancyboy Kirk vote alike, lost his seat to Joe Lieberman, then and now a better man and a better senator. Bill Buckley annointed Lieberman by forming a PAC called Buckleys for Lieberman and openly endorsing Lieberman who was elected with the bulk of the GOP votes while Weicker received a smaller number of mostly Demonratic votes that he had earned. A key issue in that campaign was Lieberman's commercial showing LoLo scuba diving and cavorting with LoLo's old pal Fidel Castro in Cuba and Joe's persistently honored promise not to embarrass Connecticut or the nation by cozying up to totalitarians. Joe Lieberman could improve considerably but he did not have to improve to be a far better man, American and senator than Lowell Weicker. 1988 was the last year for Weicker to disgrace the GOP brand name. When he ran for governor against future governor and future jailbird John Rowland (there I go again being picky over a few federal felonies), he did so as an independent with trust fund baby Eunice Groark as his running mate. I would think that "frothing whackjob" would describe anyone who would EVER vote, fanatically or just barely, for the likes of Weicker, Rowland, or, for that matter, Nancyboy or Jailbird George Ryan or Ray Obamao Footstool Lahood, or Judy Baah Baah Toooopinka, or any Combiner Crook Illinois "Republican" but, hey, that's just me and most Republican voters.
John Vliet Lindsay (nobody in any neighborhood I have ever inhabited ever had a middle name like Vliet) was an alleged "Republican" Congressman from the so-called Silk Stocking District in Manhattan who then decided to inflict himself and his windtunnel leftist ideology on New York City (a sort of Michael Bloomberg of his era without brain cells). Not only did Bill Buckley run against him on the Conservative Party ticket (getting 13% not 2%) but so did a conservative Democrat Mario Proccacino who coined the delightful term "limousine liberal" to describe your favorite rich leftists posing as "Republicans." Eventually, Lindsay became a more honest man and, driven from the GOP by actual Republicans, became a Demonrat right out in public as Nancyboy should.
When in 1971, Illinois and Connecticut (located in the famously liberal Northeast) each enacted a state income tax on wages and salaries for the very first time, we had a political revolution in Connecticut which stripped that tax off the books in a special session before a nickel was collected and no state tax on wages and salaries was enacted until Weicker's upper class revenge in 1991 in which he bought so many legislators as to enact one and we had substantial support from such unions as Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers (who paid the expenses), IBEW locals, Postal Clerks and Carriers, and many others. We were sold out by the silk stocking crowd who were bought by reductions in sales tax and investment tax cuts (yachts, limos, Lear Jets cost heavy sales taxes not paid by the kid flipping burgers at Mickey D's). Of course, according to Nancyboy's sycophants, twenty years of no state taxes on wages and salaries "have little positive impact on conservative issues." Illinois never repealed its 1971 state income tax despite GOP Combine governors because they had the Chicago Demonratic Machine to which they wanted to funnel taxpayers' money.
When, as in Illinois on a state level, leftists in Demonratic drag seize control of the GOP and are no better than their Demonratic allies and create party rules that establish a self-perpetuating oligarchy, then there is nothing so sacred about the GOP as to command the automatic loyalty of conservatives. Here, conservatives can and do support Congressmen like Peter Roskam, Don Manzullo, Joe Walsh, John Shimkus, and the three newly elected conservative Congressmen who replaced Hare, Halvorsen and the leftist Demo who took Hastert's seat twice but is now gone. We can support and elect many local candidates and county candidates and state legislators of quality but not the pro-abort stooges Radogno or Doublecross. We are well rid of the Paul Findlays and the UpChuck Percys and will celebrate the destruction of Nancyboy and his morally and ideologically corrupt pals.
You want political reality??? Check out Michael Barone's recent column (via Drudge) (Even the Finns Voted Republican) in which he breaks down the constituent elements of the recent historic national election. The spoiled and wealthy and privileged of the coasts remained Obamao's most faithful supporters other than blacks and outright reds. Yet you would have us bleed for them even if it punishes our reliable voters and those who will be.
You have Federalist/Whig disease. Each of those parties (ancestors of the GOP) were handily destroyed by the Democrats' more respectable ancestors over the Fed/Whig delusion that our nation exists to fatten the wallets of the comfortable above all else and to hell with the rest of the population.
Somehow, conservatives will survive being "dead" to you. In fact, we would not have it any other way.
Did you post your non-existent resume yet??? I did not think so.
One minor correction: Chuckie Mathias of Maryland didn’t lose his seat, he voluntarily retired in 1986, allowing his 1974 Democrat opponent Barbara Mikulski, to succeed him. I think he was trying to find a way to switch to the Democrats while being able to retain a Senate Chairmanship, but couldn’t find a way, so just quit. Too bad we couldn’t have swapped him for Nebraska’s Ed Zorinsky, who swiftly regretted bolting the GOP after leaving the Omaha Mayoralty in a fit of pique after Watergate. I believe he was fixing to switch before his untimely death in 1987 paved the way for the execrable Bob Kerrey.
As for Jacob Javits, a convo I had with a New York Socialist Party leader confirmed to me that he was always considered “one of theirs.” He was (at least for his last term, if not longer), the most left-wing member of the U.S. Senate (and in the ‘70s, we had some real beauts infesting the GOP caucus, from Javits to Case to Brooke, Percy, Mathias, et al — which was no wonder when people like Orrin Hatch & Dick Lugar first arrived in ‘76, they looked like Conservative saviors, and they could rightly claim to be with all those Socialist snobs around). Javits was barely a degree or so away from the far-left Fiorello LaGuardia (if not Vito Marcantonio) types, once a mainstay of the NY GOP. Marcantonio could’ve probably maintained his association with the GOP, instead choosing to jump to the American Labor Party, which could barely disguise their links to Moscow. Marcantonio, of course, was the only person to have won in the history of Congress ever to have been officially nominated by the Communist Party (in 1936, while as the Republican nominee).
Thinking of Weicker the Wackjob, maybe it was his birth in Paris that set of alarm bells for me. Well, at least he gave up the pretense of being a Republican by his coming out for the radical Dem leftist moonbats (much like the freakshow Willie Weld in MA, whom I’ve maintained was a Democrat agent/Clintonista since the 1970s).
Vliet Lindsay unquestionably had the singlemost impact on my life prior to my birth. Had it not been for his execrable (which isn’t as strong a description as I’d prefer to use) stewardship of New York City, my family might not have been forced to scatter to the four winds. With the dreadful job situation in the city by the end of 1973, my father had to uproot my pregnant (that being me) mother, a lifelong resident, and relocate (from Manhattan) literally days after Abe Beame was sworn-in down to Nashville. Let’s say the psychological damage of that move we all never truly recovered from, even almost 37 years after the fact.
JVL was also a premier example of a party establishment choice. The Silk Stocking District had an excellent Congressman from the 1946 election onward (although a very snobby and French-sounding Frederic René Coudert, Jr., “Freddie” Coudert was a solid Conservative). Of course, with the party dominated by the Rockefellerites (big time Social libs and made even the most spendthrift Democrats look like Calvin Coolidge), they loathed Freddie with a passion. But Coudert was loyal and stepped aside for their young liberal savior in 1958, Vliet. To this day, I wish Freddie had curbstopped that little termite to dust (or at the very least forced JVL to the Democrats). JVL would likely never have survived a Democrat primary for the Mayoralty (indeed, after he officially became a Democrat, not even they wanted him, the most toxic and incompetent Mayor in the history of NYC, if not U.S. history).
When you get right down to it, are there ANY liberal Republicans we look upon with fondness and expert leadership ? It seems like the damage they wrought have often outdone their open Democrat counterparts. And some on this website wonder why I rail against them even more strongly than a lot of Democrats... after all, if we can’t keep our own house clean from this trash and traitors, how can we go after the other guys in a united front ?
Even the one time Lindsey lost the primary for Mayor(1969) he still won as the Liberal Party nominee. So we just can’t win anywhere in NY it seems.
She is old enough to know better.
On Javits, Bill Rusher (former publisher of National Review) once served as chief counsel to the Senate Internal Security Committee which took the opportunity to investigate then Congressman Jacob Javits during his first campaign for the Senate in 1956. Rusher wrote a book about his experiences. Apparently, in 1946, Javits was graduating to civilian life from the WWII Navy. He showed up at the Communist (not Socialist) Party HQ in New York to introduce himself to and seek support in a Congressional race from Dr. Bella Dodd who was then the Commissar of the New York Communist Party. He convinced her of his, ummm, philosophical mala fides but she advised him to be really sneaky and run as a Republican which he did and he won.
To Jake's credit, when he was in dire straits in 1980, seeking a fifth senate term only as Liberal Party nominee since he had been defeated by D'Amato in what amounted to a truly vicious campaign, however desirable the result, and also stricken by Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), Jake had himself flown to the Miami area, rented out a big meeting hall, invited the many Jewish ex-New Yorkers to attend and urged them to vote for Reagan because if Carter were re-elected, there would be no Israel in four years. Jake made a difference in the vote by Jewish ex-New Yorkers in Florida.
How did I neglect Case, Percy and Brooke?
You had to live in Connecticut to fully appreciate the evil that was Lowell Weicker as a public officeholder. He did fundraisers for Planned Barrenhood and NARAL at the governor's mansion (which some governors had regarded as too dilapidated to occupy). He imposed a state income tax. As a senator, he left a fancy French restaurant in DC to go straight to the Senate to attack Ronaldus Maximus for bombing Qaddaffi in the Libyan desert. He imposed a state income tax. He made Donald Sundsquish look like a Republican but only by comparison, of course. He imposed a state income tax. He tried to change Connecticut Republican Party rules to allow unaffiliated voters to vote in Republican primaries, He imposed a state income tax. He nevr saw a leftist dictator abroad who did not sexually excite him. He imposed a state income tax. He stabbed Reagan in the back regularly. He imposed a state income tax. He was as passionately devoted to baby-killing as his fellow elitist John Warner was devoted to fox hunting. He imposed a state income tax. He could certainly be called an arrogant sob, among many other more colorful things. He imposed a state income tax. I am sure you get the picture but it was even worse being in the same state with him.
Nancyboy delenda est.
John Lindsay used the slogan: "He is fresh and they are tired." Fortunately, for some time now, he has been dead and we still live. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
I seem to recall having read that about Javits, although it was about his affiliation with Marcantonio’s American Labor Party. Even FDR had to previously disavow the ALP because of its obvious associations (and the creation of the NY Liberal Party to supplant the ALP followed, although it was initially intended to serve as a national 3rd party force with Wendell Willkie at the helm, but he died before he could make his run under the banner for NYC Mayor). Javits took a risk in running as a Republican in that district (which was a heavily Democrat Manhattan seat), but because he caught a break in running in 1946, he was able to win (although HOW he won seems to have a story of its own).
When the elderly incumbent and local Democrat leader, James Torrens, stepped down in ‘46, the big action was in the Democrat primary (where it was expected the next Congressman would naturally be chosen). The race ended up between former Assemblyman Daniel Flynn and ALP Councilman Eugene Connolly*. Flynn ended up beating Connolly, but Connolly refused to remove himself from the ALP line for the general, so Javits won only by a plurality, 46% to Flynn’s 40% with Connolly taking the crucial 14%. Javits had a tough time under the lines as it was, winning by just under 51% in 1948 (against Paul O’Dwyer, who also had the ALP line) and under 50% in 1950 in a 3-way race against a Dem and ALP’er (he won by a larger 63% in 1952, but I believe the lines were changed by then). Interesting that Javits only chose the added Liberal line to run on, and not the ALP.
Regarding his race for the Senate, you left out one “big” race he made prior to that in 1954. When Gov. Thomas Dewey and Jewish Republican Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein both decided to retire that year, the GOP substituted Sen. Irving Ives and Javits for both offices. Javits had already been renominated for Congress, but decided statewide would be a much bigger opportunity for him (the Dems would pick up Javits’ seat with Herbert Zelenko, who obliterated his GOP opponent by a 2-to-1 margin — the district today, albeit much augmented, has never elected a Republican since, and you can trace a direct line from Zelenko to Bill Ryan (to whom Zelenko lost the primary in 1962 when their districts were merged) to Bella Abzug taking over Ryan’s seat when he died a decade later, to Ted Weiss, and now today, the execrable, but much slimmer, Jerrold Nadler).
Anyway, in an upset, Ives went down to Averell Harriman, but Javits, in a remarkable marquee race, faced fellow Congressman Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., for Attorney General, and this time it was Junior who went down to Javits by the margin of 51-48% (and with that, effectively ended his political career, aside from a desultory run against Nelson Rockefeller in 1966). Almost forgotten was Javits’ brief tenure as Attorney General which lasted all of 2 years before he ran for Herb Lehman’s open Senate seat in ‘56, where Javits beat none other than NYC Mayor Bob Wagner by a 53-47% margin.
I was looking at Javits’ last races, and it would be 1962 that he would win a majority for the last time. He was remarkably weak for the generals from that point on (and I was personally amazed he held on as he did). The real crack started to show in 1968 when he won by just 49%, but his Dem opponent was a rematch of his 1948 House race, that being with Paul O’Dwyer (but O’Dwyer got a paltry 33%). The big rising star, as we would see in 1970, was Jim Buckley running on the Conservative line, where he got a respectable 17% (garnering slightly higher than he was expected to get). The 1974 race was particularly noxious, probably the only time where his Democrat opponent actually WAS more leftist than Javits, when he faced the deranged anti-American moonbat Ramsey Clark, winning by just 45-38% (with Conservative Barbara A. Keating-Edh taking a respectable 15%). And, of course, we all know what happened in 1980... (and even at that, D’Amato still only beat him by 56-44% in the GOP primary).
*One note about Eugene Connolly, whom you may have heard of, and this guy was a real piece of work... Back in the ‘40s, elections to the NYC Council were proportional At-Large, and this guy had tried for several times for offices on different occasions, but he finally made it through exclusively on the ALP line in 1945. At that time, the self-avowed Black Stalinist Benjamin Davis, Jr. was also elected, and who won outright AS a Communist Party member. Davis was kicked off the Council for violating the Smith Act (advocating Gov’t overthrow) and was sent to Terre Haute to serve 5 years in the Big House, and Connolly resigned in protest that this decent upright Stalinist would be given the bum’s rush. Of course, I at least give Davis some credit for being open and honest about his political affiliations, something that many so-called Democrats of today refuse to do (and, a few Republicans, too).
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