[Pokey78]

[eureka!]

Steyn is so much fun....

[kingu]

That's the real story here: for all Howard Dean's talk that you can't beat Bush with "Bush Lite", the candidates who'll survive to the southern primaries next week are doing their best not to sound anti-war, anti-tax cuts or anti-guns. In other words, even in the Democratic primary, this election's now being fought on Republican terms.

Now, if only there was a way to get our critters in Congress and the White House to stop pretending to be Democrats half the day, we'd have a clean sweep here.

[DeFault User]

After spending the best part of a year listening to the Democrats' strolling minstrels strumming their way round the White Mountains, I'm staggered by how little any of them have to say.

The New Hampshire economy would probably be a slump this year but for the wandering minstrels spinning yarns and shoveling manure.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Someone confronted me last night about this poll showing Kerry beating Bush by 3 points, wanted my take on it, and I said this poll is irrelevant. They then said "Why?" And I said "It's the middle of frickin January, and we don't know if Kerry will win the party nomination or not." Matter of fact, we don't even know who will get the nomination. Do I care who gets the nomination? No. They're all unelectable. I'm not worried, nervous, or scared.

[GeronL]

Fox News said polls gave Clark the lead in Oklahoma... lol

and 2nd in Arizona!!

Divide the convention,,,, floor fight!!

I wish.

[Cautor]

I saw Ms. Ketchup Kid on Hardball tonight. She had an odd accent so I did a bit of checking. Turns out Ms. Ketchup kid was born in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese doctor. She later went to college in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mozambique was from 1569-1975, ruled by the Portuguese as a colony. I wonder how all the African-Amerians will take to a former white African colonial as the first lady? Odd the press hasn't made anything of her origins.

[mylife]

Sen John Edwards, the pretty-boy southern lawyer, does a much better job of this sort of thing. I caught him at Gorham Town Hall way up in the mountains on Saturday morning. It was a brutally cold morning – 40 degrees below freezing – but the place was packed and we all came away enthused,

I just saw Edwards on Oreilly, the guy got hammered on tuff questions and didnt get rattled. He said he is "waiting" for the attacks and that he can handle it.

He is fixing to bump it up a notch.

[prairiebreeze]

Larouche is the guy who thinks the Queen is an international drugs kingpin (or, in this case, queenpin) secretly running the world on her cocaine profits. Compared with some of the wackier utterances of Dean and Clark, the House of Windsor drug cartel is one of the less fanciful notions this primary season.

ROFL!

Prairie

[MeekOneGOP]

I just found out a little bit ago that these morons in New Hampshire won't vote until midnight tonight?

That leaves me to check FR first thing in the morning to see which moron is crowned there !

If it sounds a bit crass to reduce the whole business to Hit Parade rankings, well, don't blame me. After spending the best part of a year listening to the Democrats' strolling minstrels strumming their way round the White Mountains, I'm staggered by how little any of them have to say. If you go to a Kerry rally – something of an oxymoron, but let that pass – the senator's stump speech is a karaoke tape of floppo populist boilerplate. If he'd downloaded it for free from the internet, that'd be one thing. Instead, he paid a small fortune to hotshot consultant Bob Shrum, who promptly faxed over the same old generic guff he keeps in the freezer: "I (insert name here) will never stop fighting for ordinary people against the powerful interests that stand in your way."

This shtick worked so well for Shrum's previous clients - President Dick Gephardt (1988), President Bob Kerrey (1992), President Al Gore (2000) and President Insert Namehere (2008) that he evidently sees no reason why it shouldn't elect a fifth president this time round. Throw in a few mandatory sneering references to Enron, Halliburton and Attorney-General John Ashcroft plus a handful of local hard-luck stories of doubtful general application – "47-year-old Arlene Claxton of Hooksett worked 20 years to build up her hairdressing business only to contract a rare skin disease from a conditioner manufactured overseas by corporations George W Bush has given tax breaks to in order to export American jobs abroad to jurisdictions lacking environmental safeguards thanks to a sweetheart deal negotiated by a lobbyist for Halliburton and then learnt that her health insurer wouldn't cover the cost of treatment because etc etc."

[The Raven]

[RightWingMama]

"47-year-old Arlene Claxton of Hooksett worked 20 years to build up her hairdressing business only to contract a rare skin disease from a conditioner manufactured overseas by corporations George W Bush has given tax breaks to in order to export American jobs abroad to jurisdictions lacking environmental safeguards thanks to a sweetheart deal negotiated by a lobbyist for Halliburton and then learnt that her health insurer wouldn't cover the cost of treatment because etc etc."

ROTFLMAO

[Standing Wolf]

Big tempest, small tea pot. America isn't going to elect a leftist extremist.

[independentmind]

Keep it up. Kerry the Ketchup Kid. It's catchy!
!

[lasereye]

When the unknown becomes known, his numbers slide and the media and the Dems go off in search of a new white knight.

Didn't happen to Clinton in 92 as I recall.

[Temple Owl]

ping

[beaversmom]

Thank you for the Steyn ping. This one is a classic just like most of his rest. I like the line about Arlene Claxton of Hooksett.

[hershey]

Boy, every word is on target, as usual. Steyn is a treasure.

[Rocky]

Bump for Steyn.

[irv]

Shrum's previous clients - President Dick Gephardt (1988), President Bob Kerrey (1992), President Al Gore (2000) and President Insert Namehere (2008)

But for Liberals (to borrow a thought from Rush), being wrong only increases their stature. It's their intentions that count.

And Shrum's intentions are to tear down George Bush, the Republican Party, and America (in no particular order). I predict Shrum will be the next head of the Democratic National Committee.