Posted on 02/11/2008 11:09:41 PM PST by zeestephen
"What a kerfuffle! Half a dozen talk-radio hosts whose major talent is that, like hairdressers, they can talk all day long to one client after another as they snip, have decided that the presumptive Republican nominee does not hew sufficiently close to their gospel.
"As anyone who has listened to them knows, the depth of their thought is truly Oprah-like."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Thanks for helping me understand that my commitment to Conservative principles is just "self-indulgent pique."
And special thanks for informing me that Rush Limbaugh has the intellectual depth of Oprah Winfrey.
You see, somehow I got the weird idea that Rush Limbaugh became successful in the early 1990's by delivering the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal each day to millions of Main Street American radio listeners.
And, finally, my deepest and most heartfelt thanks for telling me I need to "suck it up, be a man," and vote for John McCain.
Do you guys really have no idea how that kind of language sounds to Conservatives?
Have you completely lost your minds?
The only thing I can figure is that you know McCain and the GOP Congress will be utterly crushed in the 2008 election, and, nine months ahead of schedule, you're already looking for scapegoats.
McCain’s gonna bellyflop, WSJ. And with a Liberal president in power, conservatives might just get back the Spirit of ‘94.
Headline????????????????
My, how gay and catty can one get.
McCain’s strategy for reaching out to conservatives seems to amount to: “Ha, ha - you have no other choices!”
Seems like the PTB are still miffed over the amnesty backlash and the fact some people still put ideas before party.
“The Democrats’ advantage in 2008 is that the costs of the war in Iraq have been highly disproportionate to its effects, not least in the decline of the American military, when it could have been otherwise.”
“Along comes John McCain, who has an 80% positive rating from the American Conservative Union but who as a truly independent soul does not fit, at the margins, some of the transient notions of what makes a conservative.”
“not least in the decline of the American military” (huh?)
“Along comes John McCain, who has an 80% positive rating from the American Conservative Union but...... who as a truly independent soul” (huh?)
The article is a an overly verbose peice of crap. Far more words(and big ones) than substance. Erudite this guy ain’t.
Isn’t it amazing how all the players fall in behind McCain?
He’ll be open borders and a consumate globalist.
The WSJ has it’s bases covered, screw the nation.
Yeah, Rush is a lefty but John McCain, now there’s the model conservative. If you’re Hillary and hoping for a layer of socialist governance over our own, like the NAU, or the AU.
Even the traditional conservative rags have sworn allegence to the dark side. McCainiacs one and all...
I know there’s nothing that changes my mind like a heaping-helping of condescension!!
Perhaps Halprin missed his calling as a motivational speaker or a televangalist?
This is too funny:
“As anyone who has listened to them knows, the depth of their thought is truly Oprah-like. And if a great institution of the left can weigh-in as it does in the choice of a nominee, why not its fraternal twins on the right? It doesn’t matter that Mitt Romney, suddenly their Reagan, became a conservative in a flash of light sometime last year, or that their other champion, a populist theocrat, is in many ways as conservative as Vladimir Lenin. The task is to stop the devil McCain.”
I think they are just upset we won’t stay down on the plantation anymore.
Thought: Here is another Warrior-lover for McCain.
Just as Huck strokes the Christians emotive zones, so too does McCain stike a chord among the warrior-class and the lovers of same. A bit of ... Duty, Honor, Country ... and they are yours.
Victor Davis Hanson, This guy, ... meandog.
Now I know why i really loved Romney. Deep down, I’m an investor-class venture capitalist wannabee economic conservative.
3 candidates - 3 zones.
Find yourself a political military veteran hero capitalist businessman Christian and you’ve got yourself the next Reagan.
The WSJ open borders crowd have no creds regarding the illegal alien issue.
One can agree or disagree with his peripheral positions, but political orthodoxy is political death. If those who are in a hissy fit about Sen. McCain would rather have Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, they will get Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton -- how delightful to go to jail for building your house on land once visited by an exotic moth -- and they will wake up to a great regret, as if in their drunkenness they had taken Shrek to bed.
Hey Mark Helprin, here's a hissy fit for you and your favorite candidate!
There. I feel better.
When the enemy starts complaining about you pointig out some short comings of your own, then you know there must be something to what your saying, knowwhatimean?
In the last hour FR has educated me a bit about McCain’s Macbethian guilt over his collusion with his captors in Hanoi Hilton. I think he needs to come clean, very very clean. Before the Dems clean his clock for him. Personally, I hope Ann Coulter writes something about it with sanity. Off the top of my head, it seems McCain has excoriated himself for forty years for what he said to keep himself alive in the POW camps. I am positive I would not do any better.
You got that right—McCain thinks we will vote his way because we can’t pull the lever for Hillary or Obama. The old scare tactics don’t work no more. The old line of Hillary will apoint LIBERAL judges to the supream court—so suck it up and vote RINO if you value the Republic, just don’t work. Why? Because McCain would apoint liberal judges too to please his Democrat friends, if he didn’t the Senate wouldn’t confirm them anyway. I no longer fear democrats. I rather have a raging witch like Hillary (nations will fear her wrath) that a man with the flaws of McCain. At least you know where Hillary is coming from, with McCain you never could tell. I don’t trust him and I will never vote for him, support him, or anyone who does.
Excellent letter.
You know, it’s as though McCain and his crew think they can ORDER us to vote for him.
The fools don’t seem to realize that this garbage simply pushes us further away.
They seem to have the talent of making the imposable..... imposable.
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