Ed Rollins and David Gergen are both tired old men. Where were they during ‘88, 2000, and 2004? Those campaigns were much more negative and apparently trying to win is now a crime.
They can bite it. If McCain pulls a Bob Dole we will lose our filibuster as well as the presidency. Goldwater already taught us the dangers of a democratic sweep.
Lets not have it happen again.
I can’t stand to watch or lister to David Gergan His voice drives me crazy!—not to mention I have no respect for his thoughts...on anything!
It’s funny how the left and the media have jumped on McCain for being “negative” for using Ayers against Hussein, Sitting here watching football I have seen many ads from Hussein that are filled with outright lies and distortions of McCain’s record, and they say nothing of Hussein being “negative”.
Liberalism is being given mainstream treatment in 2008.
The change you want? BS!
VDH will provide the intellectual leadership for the underground movement that will evolve to topple the socialist dynasty that now threatens us.
bump & a ping!
Well, I have to expand on VDH’s reasoning, and for the record he is reason (and wisdom) beyond a lot of people I know and respect...
John McCain cannot, and will not be an authority yet to dictate my revultion and indignation towards anyone with liberal or socialist leanings...
I promise to be as disrespectful, antagonistic and downright mean as I can towards them...period...
We have played the “bigger than that” card way too long...
I do not consider my opinion or position as lowering myself to their level either...
It is way past taking the gloves off in this election cycle...
But hey, don’t blame me...My primary vote (that didn’t matter anyway) went to someone else...
Now we got to do what we have to do once again...Same ole story...
I guess I woke up on the cynical side of the bed this morning...;-)
David Gergen, Ed Rollins, Christopher Buckley, and David Brooks can go jump in the lake.
What a bunch of losers. What, do they want to elect an unAmerican Fascist-Communist-Islamist baby killer to the White House.
Oh, that’s right, I don’t think any of these conservatives care how many babies are killed.
“...both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the “old” noble McCain is gone, and a “new” nastier one has emerged..” ~ V D Hanson
Gergen, Rollins, and the rest of the losers can get a glimpse of themselves in this mirror, and it ain’t pretty:
At the forest’s edge
http://newcriterion.com/archives/26/03/at-the-forests-edge
by Anthony Daniels
In his essay, The Empire of the Ugly, the great Belgian Sinologist and literary essayist Simon Leys recounts the story of how, writing one day in a café, a small incident gave him an insight into the real nature of philistinism.
A radio was playing in the background, a mixture of banal and miscellaneous chatter and equally banal popular music. No one in the café paid any attention to this stream of tepid drivel until suddenly, unexpectedly and inexplicably, the first bars of Mozart’s clarinet quintet were played. “Mozart,” Leys says, “took possession of our little space with a serene authority, transforming the café into an antechamber of Paradise.”
The other people in the café, who until then were chatting, playing cards, or reading the newspaper, were not deaf to the radio after all. The music silenced them, they looked at each other, disconcerted. “Their disarray lasted only a few seconds: to the relief of all, one of them stood up, changed the radio station and re-established the flow of noise that was more familiar and comforting, which everyone could then properly ignore.”
Here is the conclusion that Leys draws:
At that moment, I was struck by an obvious fact that has never left me since: that the real philistines are not those people incapable of recognizing beautythey recognize it only too well, with a flair as infallible as that of the subtlest aesthete, but only to pounce on it and smother it before it can take root in their universal empire of ugliness. [snip]
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Strategic Intention and Mass Man
by J. R. Nyquist
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2008/0314.html
“..There recently appeared an essay by Anthony Daniels, http://newcriterion.com/archives/26/03/at-the-forests-edge published in The New Criterion, http://newcriterion.com/ in which he summarized Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset’s notion of “mass man” as the man “who goes from distraction to distraction, who is prey to absurd fashions, who never thinks deeply….” In the first decade of the twenty-first century this is all too familiar. In 2008 we live in a society dominated by “mass men,” overtaken by mass psychology, mass media, mass schooling and the mass ignorance presently crowding in around us.
Today’s mass audience cannot distinguish the important from the trivial. What needs to be acknowledged, and one day will be acknowledged, is the very real distinction between “low-minded” and “high-minded,” between moral courage and venial conformism, between thinkers and fakers. This is what it comes down to. [snip]
From Eric Hoffer: “What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes than in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored. “
mark
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DNCNN is someone Repubs should take serious.
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