[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"..."Toujours l'audace!" proclaims a French military slogan..."

It is a Napoleonic slogan, to be precise.

"L'audace; encore l'audace; et toujours l'audace."

Napoleon was, of course, the proto-Hitler in European history. Hitler is unthinkable without Napoleon. However Barone is confindent that nobody in America can connect the dots.

The dots; again, the dots; connect the dots.....

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

When can we expect a post of houshold hints from Herr Hitler?

(Something about the "Big Lie" and all that jazz....)

[Savage Beast]

'Audacity is 9O per cent of the battle.' --Karl Marx

[lavaroise]

Audacious? and they do not find Vedrin's picking up Bin Laden's batton relating to support of Israel and America's supposedly imaginary terrorist chimeras?

If there was support for terrorism, it did come out tacitly from the French.

Europe is quaking in its boots. I know Europeans. When they have a problem they fear explaining it lest they feel debased and inferior. They will stubbornly say no no and invoke outrageous reasons when the sole problem was just a little bit of lack of confidence...

This is European inferiority complex amplified to the power 10. They are litteraly sh!ting in their pants. Too bad, may they do so for valid reasons against them that will come to happen. I wonder what kind of blackmail they are under.

[Wolfstar]

Our President is a very brave man. It's a long way to November, and other Republicans need to play their cards right, but judging by the huge cheers our Dubya draws wherever he goes, it's going to take something really big to make a dent in his popularity. For those who watched the Olympics opening ceremony last night, weren't those roars from the crowd every time the President appeared just wonderful? Music to my ears, that's for sure. It was also really cool that he gave the U.S. athletes a pep talk before the opening ceremonies, joined them in the stands as he officially opened the games, then sat with them for awhile after that. First leader of any country ever to do that. I don't doubt it gave the Secret Service heartburn, but it was a wonderful and brave gesture. I tell ya, at this point I'd follow Dubya anywhere, and I know I'm not alone.

[thucydides]

Rather than get bogged down over the source of the quote, as some posters to this thread seem to be doing, let's just focus on the article. Barone is one of the most knowledgeable men about politics writing today, and his point that a politician needs to keep pushing an agenda to succeed is well taken.

[Grut]

French military philosophy results in French military successes; their last victory was the Battle of Maubeuge in 1814.

[alcuin]

Good post.

As usual.

[SubMareener]

Most of the reaction to George W. Bush's audacious State of the Union message has focused on his virtual declaration of war against the "axis of terror"–North Korea, Iran, and Iraq. And rightly so.

Of course, President Bush spoke of the "axis of evil", so Michael Barone can't even get the premise correct, let alone the conclusion!