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Mark Steyn: Democrats quagmire: petty politics -
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 21, 2003 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/21/2003 10:22:11 AM PDT by UnklGene

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To: I'mAllRightJack
Agreed a Repub Primary with some real conservatives would be excellent!
21 posted on 09/21/2003 2:03:29 PM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero)
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To: Paul_B; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...
Thanks Paul!


22 posted on 09/21/2003 2:21:23 PM PDT by Pokey78 ("I thought this country was founded on a principle of progressive taxation." Wesley Clark to Russert)
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To: capt. norm
Post-convention, when it comes down to Bush vs. Gore/Hillary/Clark/Dean, this posturing will be long forgotten. The media will full court press on domestic agenda. If Pubbies try to bring up the panty-waist anti-war dems, they will be ju-jitsued as mean-spirited name-callers.

The truth is, if a Dwarf is somehow elected, I predict they will continue W's foreign policy. Will the truth - that W is a gifted Commander In Chief - make a difference?

23 posted on 09/21/2003 2:27:49 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Pokey78; UnklGene
It would make more sense to argue that Bush has done such a fabulous job on the war -- Afghanistan and Iraq liberated, the Taliban gone, al-Qaida gutted, Saddam on the run, etc. -- that the whole anti-terror thing has been pretty much wrapped up and we urgently need to get back to focusing on new federal standards for mandatory bicycling helmets, or whatever Democrats consider important these days.

The American electorate is just uninformed enough to fall for this. It worries me too.

24 posted on 09/21/2003 2:38:24 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: UnklGene
Aware that the air-quality chit-chat was making her and Katie look like a couple of airheads,

ZING!

Steyn twists the knife so smoothly the victim may not even feel it.

This is obviously meant to recall how Katie Couric caused a flap when on three separate days she said, "The Gipper was an airhead." When challenged she tried to excuse it as the conclusion of the book she was discussing, but even the book's author objected, saying that he had only written that his *first* impression of Reagan was that he was an "apparent airhead", but that the author soon learned otherwise.

25 posted on 09/21/2003 3:26:09 PM PDT by Ichneumon
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To: scholar; Bullish; linear; yoda swings
Ping
26 posted on 09/21/2003 4:07:19 PM PDT by knighthawk (And we all cry for freedom with your fists in the sky)
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To: Pokey78; UnklGene
Look at it this way: What do you think that 69 percent of Americans make of Katie and Hillary marking the anniversary of 9/11 with a discussion on environmental regulatory compliance? Or previously sensible Democratic senators twisting themselves into pretzels to explain why their vote for war was in fact a principled vote against war? Or a four-star general whose general position is that real men don't have positions unless they're approved by the French? How many of that 69 percent want to trust their national security to these fellows? Or want them handling North Korea and Iran?

I happen to think George W. Bush is vulnerable in 2004. But not on the war. As long as Democrats go on bleating and whining that it's all going horribly wrong, that 69 percent will dismiss them as pantywaists. It would make more sense to argue that Bush has done such a fabulous job on the war -- Afghanistan and Iraq liberated, the Taliban gone, al-Qaida gutted, Saddam on the run, etc. -- that the whole anti-terror thing has been pretty much wrapped up and we urgently need to get back to focusing on new federal standards for mandatory bicycling helmets, or whatever Democrats consider important these days.


November, 2004:
President Bush on the Road to Victory ...


27 posted on 09/21/2003 4:53:57 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: Pokey78; UnklGene
Look at it this way: What do you think that 69 percent of Americans make of Katie and Hillary marking the anniversary of 9/11 with a discussion on environmental regulatory compliance? Or previously sensible Democratic senators twisting themselves into pretzels to explain why their vote for war was in fact a principled vote against war? Or a four-star general whose general position is that real men don't have positions unless they're approved by the French? How many of that 69 percent want to trust their national security to these fellows? Or want them handling North Korea and Iran?

I happen to think George W. Bush is vulnerable in 2004. But not on the war. As long as Democrats go on bleating and whining that it's all going horribly wrong, that 69 percent will dismiss them as pantywaists. It would make more sense to argue that Bush has done such a fabulous job on the war -- Afghanistan and Iraq liberated, the Taliban gone, al-Qaida gutted, Saddam on the run, etc. -- that the whole anti-terror thing has been pretty much wrapped up and we urgently need to get back to focusing on new federal standards for mandatory bicycling helmets, or whatever Democrats consider important these days.


November, 2004:
President Bush on the Road to Victory ...


28 posted on 09/21/2003 4:53:57 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: yall
Ugh ! A double post. Sorry 'bout that ...

29 posted on 09/21/2003 4:54:51 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
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To: UnklGene
So much of the petty politics reminds me of the "In Crowd" thing --- high school cliques --- particularly Hillary and Katie's prearranged little Bush-bashing fest. Wonder if Katie's cheerleading getup still fits.

I guess to continue to analogy someone would have to say "I hope Hillary gets pregnant and has to drop out!"

30 posted on 09/21/2003 5:00:12 PM PDT by arasina (Hillary thinks being shrill is the same thing as standing up for principle.)
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To: UnklGene
Let's hope democrats don't read Mark Steyn.

As long as Democrats go on bleating and whining that it's all going horribly wrong, that 69 percent will dismiss them as pantywaists. It would make more sense to argue that Bush has done such a fabulous job on the war -- Afghanistan and Iraq liberated, the Taliban gone, al-Qaida gutted, Saddam on the run, etc. -- that the whole anti-terror thing has been pretty much wrapped up and we urgently need to get back to focusing on new federal standards for mandatory bicycling helmets, or whatever Democrats consider important these days.

31 posted on 09/21/2003 5:53:06 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: Verginius Rufus
Monica Crowley was born in 1968.
32 posted on 09/21/2003 7:19:07 PM PDT by Tony in Hawaii (Actually Tarzana CA)
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To: Congressman Billybob
"She's the same b*tch who got roundly booed at that benefit concert by New York City's Finest."

My favorite has got to be when those NYC Jews threw all those toilet seats at her and she was hounded out of there. The look on her face was priceless.

33 posted on 09/21/2003 9:21:57 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Conservative til I die
Katie is such an objective "journalist" isn't she?
PUKE!
34 posted on 09/21/2003 9:26:35 PM PDT by ladyinred (The left have blood on their hands.)
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To: ladyinred
We must all remember and never forget that over fifty percent of citizens (and non citizens) are receiving funds from the federal government, in employment or other allocations. And they tend to vote Democrat candidates.

And those citizens have to be profoundly persuaded to put their country over their own individual interests.

Remember that Gore did get the popular vote.

We have a long road ahead of us, still.
35 posted on 09/21/2003 9:54:16 PM PDT by Conservababe
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To: Pokey78
Steyn ping!
36 posted on 09/21/2003 10:58:14 PM PDT by lainde
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To: UnklGene
Bump! Great Steyn.
37 posted on 09/22/2003 9:03:26 AM PDT by dead (All that is not mandatory is prohibited.)
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To: baseballmom
"moron" here that agrees with you...
38 posted on 09/25/2003 1:18:44 AM PDT by teldon30
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To: UnklGene
Oustanding article. Thanks for posting it.
39 posted on 09/25/2003 2:58:25 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: UnklGene
Afghanistan and Iraq liberated, the Taliban gone, al-Qaida gutted, Saddam on the run, etc. -- that the whole anti-terror thing has been pretty much wrapped up

Doing some digging for old Steyn articles regarding Afghanistan. I love Steyn's writing. But I recall him mocking the idea of a quagmire in Afghanistan back in the day. Here in this piece he seems to have declared victory in Afghanistan.

Well, aren't even Freepers now calling it a quagmire? What's the situation? I love Steyn's writing, but he does seem to be a neo-con, and he does seem to sometimes be the Larry Kudlow of foreign interventionism.

Things just go down the memory hole though, and no one remembers when someone was dead wrong about something.

40 posted on 10/04/2009 5:36:08 PM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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