"AWAY ALL BOATS!" (Election Eve Vanity)

My fevered mind | 11/4/2002 | section9

[section9]

Well, folks, another election is upon us. I simply urge you to go out there and turn out for our President and his candidates for the Senate, House, and the Governorships.

Let's set the stage tomorrow for a monster victory in 2004.

I got the title of this thread from the anticipation and dread that ran through the minds of thousands of American infantrymen as they saw the approaching beaches of places like Peleiliu, Tarawa, and the Normandy Coast.

It is the waiting that is the hardest; the hardest thing of all.

Best to do what would not begin to enter the mind of our opposite numbers over at DU. Best to simply humble oneself and say, as Henry V did centuries ago on Crispin's Day,

"...and so, pleasest God, dispose the day.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Pushi]

We are getting the same story on all the races--suddenly the Republicans are ahead. This is '84 and '94 all over again. The media and pollsters have known this for days. Now, they are trying to save their a---, uh, er reputations.

[stlrocket]

If the Democrats had their way - this clown would be President!

HOW THEY THINK !

[section9]

Let's put it this way:

I'm very confident that Jeb will put McBride away by nine pm tomorrow night.

I'm less sure about the Senate, but I'm feeling better, especially when I saw Gallup detect a Republican tide. Zogby's internals have gotten criticism from Stu Rothenberg from Roll Call, so we just have to wait.

I want Minnesota, bad. Georgia and CO, too. All of 'em.

Except Arkansas. Hutchinson isn't worth it.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[small voice in the wilderness]

A BIG thanks for this post. You have once again inspired and made common sense reign amidst the madness surrounding this election. Good luck and God-speed to all who cherish truth and liberty.

[Tuco-bad]

Away All Boats (1956)

Starring Jeff Chandler as Capt. Jebediah S. Hawks.

The story of landing troops on Okinawa...

Best part was when a coxswain is told to turn left and looks at his hands to determine which way is left.

[section9]

Wasn't that the movie where the CO has a heart condition?

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[boris]

Take off every zig!

Move zig...for great justice!

[Gunder]

Thanks for the encouraging post. Please, everyone!! As you lie in bed tonight, ask yourselves -- do I know any Republicans who aren't going to vote tomorrow? If so, what can I do to convince them to get to the polls? Who haven't I called? Who haven't I prodded? Can I offer to drive anyone to the polls!

Let's put this one to bed, people! Go Talent, go Chambliss, go Coleman, go Cornyn, go Allard, go Dole, go Sununu, go Wolfe, go Thune! Get out the vote!

[DakotaGator]

Away All Boats

That's the order passed over a US warship's "1MC" circuit (public address system) directing the launch of all landing craft. I remember it well.

And here's another one; "Land the Landing Force".

It is time for us to land the landing force at the polls and liberate an America occupied too long by the democRATS!

VOTE

[Tuco-bad]

Wasn't that the movie where the CO has a heart condition?

Well Jeff Chandler did die during heart surgery.