On feet in Democratic mouths

Mpls (red)Star Tribune ^ | 6/26/03 | James Lileks

[Valin]

Wonder how many people e-mailed Dick Gephardt a copy of the Constitution this week, with the subject line "FYI."

Reacting to the possibility that the Supreme Court might overturn affirmative action, the presidential candidate said, "When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day."

Winch your jaw off your sternum and read that again. Picture the glee that would sweep the Democratic National Committee if a Republican candidate said this.

[The_Victor]

I'll disagree with one statement the author makes:

Given how the Dems hammered candidate Bush for his mistalkerating, it's only fair that the GOP hammer Dean et al. for theirs. But they won't. Not because they're genetically encoded for niceness -- no, they simply lack the political instincts to pound away at a faux pas, and they haven't a compliant media that will recycle the gaffe for a news cycle or two.

It's not that the Republicans don't try, it's that the media ignores them when they do. Which I guess the author says as a secondary point. To me it's the primary issue: democRAT whine and get lots of press coverage, Republicans don't.

[Valin]

Well that's because republicans are evil EVIL EVIL!
I thought everyone knew that.

[StatesEnemy]

This is HILARIOUS:

• Most voters won't notice, and if they do, they won't care. It's not as if the nation is afire with Gephardt fever, you know. There were three cases of suspected Gephardt fever in Wisconsin, but it turned out to be monkeypox.

[Indianer]

This is all getting interesting. We have a Court that corrects all the wrong things a legislature does, a Presidential candidate that promises to correct all the wrong things a Court does. A state suprelme court in Florida that corrects all the wrong things that voters do. And legislatures that seem pretty clueless, and totally ineffectual, and mainly interested in investigating everything they can think of. And of course a press that mainly just makes stuff up. Hard to decide whether one outta swear or laugh.

[EBITDA]

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