Mark Steyn: If Clark wins — I’ll quit!

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 09/27/03 | Mark Steyn

[arasina]

It's a good line, of course, but I doubt that death's head Judy has it in her.

[Gritty]

Steyn rocks!

[StriperSniper]

‘None Of The Above’ in a General’s uniform.

Exactly.

[LibertarianLiz]

If I were a Democrat, my main priority for the party would be to get the car keys back from Bill Clinton.
The most important line of the piece.

I agree, but I doubt many Dems would.

[dead]

Wow! That article was spectacular even for Steyn.

I was just explaining to a liberal friend of mine just how horrible Clinton and his "people" have been for liberals.

She just couldn't see it. He's "her Bill" and she loves him and irrepresible wife.

Her ilk are just fawning battered wives, who just don't mind a few black eyes for love.

[secret garden]

Can't you hear that coffee commercial in your head, where the percolator perks out a tune?

[dead]

Clark has been referred to as "our Eisenhower" on several posts I have read on demo underground.

To give you some idea how smitten the military-loathing, uber-liberals are with Clark, check out the following entry from the Village Voice’s insanely unfunny and artistically limited “cartoonist”:

After all those years spent mocking and deriding our military as baby killers and worse, suddenly Wesley is all regal and manly, here to save the day for sorry-ass leftists. “But he’s our baby killer now!”

Of course, since Ward lacks the brains and artistic skills to make it sufficiently clear that the burning background is supposed to be Iraq, it could easily be mistaken for Kosovo or Waco.

[mrtysmm]

That visual is turning my stomach...but then again, she always turns my stomach.

[Maigrey]

Not true. There was a dance song out 'bout 3 years ago called "Doin' the Percolator"

The kids will be amused, but the adults will still understand the meaning.

[js1138]

Christopher Guest could make a great movie of this in the tradition of "Spinal Tap" and "Waiting for Guffman". he could call it "Waiting for None of the Above". I can see the interview skit now: the four-star general, auditioning for commander-in-chief of the greatest nation in the world, gets on live TV and says, "please wait a minute while I make a phone call. I'm not sure I'm allowed to answer that question."

After all, "... when you get into this, what happens is you have to put yourself in a position."

[Republican Red]

Democrats will be back to Square One looking for a new ‘None’

I love this guy. Thanks for the ping.

[You Dirty Rats]

They had their chance with the Impeachment.

The Republicans did the smart thing in 1974 and told Nixon he had to go. Look how quickly we recovered! Ford came from 30% down to nearly knock off Carter, and Ronbo romped in 1980 and 1984.

The 'Rats lashed themselves to the S.S. Clinton, and they have been sinking (in every sense) ever since. They are getting exactly what they deserve!

Bubba and his WINO are really quite the pair. Those of us on the Right have reaped huge political benefits from these two for nine years now, but we would rather they just go away and stop staining our Republic. Those on the Left love them, even though they are killing them politically. I don't know if we've ever seen two more paradoxical figures in this country's history.

[r9etb]

Unless Wes Clark marries Bill in a Vermont civil union and takes his husband’s name

ROTFLMAO! Egad, the mental image is absolutely priceless....

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"the 44th President will not be Wesley Clark.

Why’s that? First and foremost, Wes is a Friend Of Bill, as in Clinton. Bill gets through FOBs at an enormous rate and even those who don’t wind up dead, in jail or drowning in legal bills rarely prosper. . . . the Clintons’ Democratic party is great for the Clintons, disastrous for the Democratic party. From Arkansas, Bill went on to Washington; his successor as governor, Jim Guy Tucker, went on to jail. His party lost control of Congress, but Bill got re-elected. He survived the impeachment trial, but his vice-president lost the White House. He bequeathed a New York senate seat to his wife, but the Clinton flack he installed at the Democratic National Committee led the party to defeat in just about every competitive senate race last November.

. . . In last year’s election . . . you could pretty much correlate the Democrats’ worst results with Bill’s travel schedule during the campaign . . . If I were a Democrat, my main priority for the party would be to get the car keys back from Bill Clinton. "

A howler!

[windchime]

Bump!

[Strider]

And, given that 48 per cent of the sample identified themselves as Democrats, what this poll seems to have found is that Clark attracts the 48 per cent you’d expect him to plus a barely detectable smidgeonette of the rest.

One would have to run a crosstab of Party Affiliation vs. Who Would You Vote For? to come to that conclusion. The above conclusion can not be arrived at looking at the sample as a whole.

Of course, you really can't extrapolate any of the results to the entire population, given the less than random nature of the sample (48% Democrats???).

I'd like to give the polling company the benefit of the doubt, but, I've seen too many of them trade their integrity for money.

The only use for a skewed sample, like this, is for propaganda.

At least 80% of the effort required to conduct a good poll is on keeping the sample random. Given this fact, I can only conclude that the polling company purposely skewed the results.

[Dave Olson]

The more I see of Wesley Clark, the more he reminds me of that paranoid General, Jack Ripper,
in Dr. Strangelove.

[beaversmom]

Mark Steyn's biting wit makes me want to scream-- ‘Yes, yes! Oh, God!! Yes!!! Aaaooooowwwwaaaooah!!!!’

If there is a ping list for his articles, I wouldn't mind being on it.

[PJ-Comix]

And, of the 100,000 folks reading this posting this morning who are also drinking coffeee, not more than 10 are drinking coffee made in a percolator.

Best coffee commercial ever was the Maxwell House tune playing on the percolator.