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O'Rourke; Not An Election, A Restraining Order
Weekly Standard ^ | October 25, 2010 | P. J. O'Rourke

Posted on 10/26/2010 9:44:57 AM PDT by HonestConservative

They Hate Our Guts

And they’re drunk on power.

Perhaps you’re having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP’s crowning glory—an isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine O’Donnell announcing that she’s not a witch. (I ask you, has Hillary Clinton ever cleared this up?) Fret not over Republican peccadilloes such as the Tea Party finding the single, solitary person in Nevada who couldn’t poll ten to one against Harry Reid. Better to have a few cockeyed mutts running the dog pound than Michael Vick.

I take it back. Using the metaphor of Michael Vick for the Democratic party leadership implies they are people with a capacity for moral redemption who want to call good plays on the legislative gridiron. They aren’t. They don’t. The reason is simple. They hate our guts.

They don’t just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody’s guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class.

Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats.

Whence all this hate? Is it the usual story of love gone wrong? Do Democrats have a mad infatuation with the political system, an unhealthy obsession with an idealized body politic? Do they dream of capturing and ravishing representational democracy? Are they crazed stalkers of our constitutional republic?

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Government; History; Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: election; orourke; pjorourke; restraining; vote
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1 posted on 10/26/2010 9:45:03 AM PDT by HonestConservative
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To: CharlesWayneCT; armymarinemom; sofaman; Dr. Scarpetta; Cautor; Bahbah; baystaterebel; ...

Hat tip to and greetings from Joyce Kaufman of wftl 850, Florida.


2 posted on 10/26/2010 9:46:44 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://holdingahammer.com/)
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To: HonestConservative
”Photobucket" Agreed!
3 posted on 10/26/2010 9:48:20 AM PDT by xuberalles ("The Right Stuff" Conservative Novelties http://www.zazzle.com/xuberalles)
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To: HonestConservative

PJ does it again.

Good work, PJ.

Two possible outcomes for the November 2nd elections:

1) Blowout by the Pubbies

2) Tsunami by the Pubbies

Everybody vote!

Please!


4 posted on 10/26/2010 9:50:12 AM PDT by RexBeach ("There is no such thing as a good tax." Winston Churchill)
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To: HonestConservative; griswold3; Constitution Day; Lazamataz; monkapotamus
Loved this.

(I actually got to see and hear O'Rourke speak a little over a week ago -- and gave him a kiss, lol. I couldn't help myself... even told him he was adorable... rotf.)

5 posted on 10/26/2010 9:52:18 AM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: xuberalles

Great sticker, but I’m pretty sure they cannot read it.


6 posted on 10/26/2010 9:52:18 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://holdingahammer.com/)
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To: RexBeach

Yah, and any of you Democrats who intend to vote for a Democrat ~ we’ve scheduled a special time and day for you ~ November 3 at 6 PM ~ every polling place.


7 posted on 10/26/2010 9:53:00 AM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: AnnaZ

I understand, I’ve come damn close to that a couple times.


8 posted on 10/26/2010 9:54:44 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://holdingahammer.com/)
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To: HonestConservative

lol. Good point!


9 posted on 10/26/2010 9:55:36 AM PDT by xuberalles ("The Right Stuff" Conservative Novelties http://www.zazzle.com/xuberalles)
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To: xuberalles

bttt.


10 posted on 10/26/2010 10:00:53 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://holdingahammer.com/)
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To: HonestConservative

Magnificant. PJ at his finest.


11 posted on 10/26/2010 10:03:33 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." Thomas Mann)
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To: denydenydeny

How is PJ doing? Didn’t he have cancer. Hadn’t heard from him in awhile, so I was worried.


12 posted on 10/26/2010 10:04:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Texas Rangers - American League Champions)
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To: HonestConservative

Wonderful...now let’s get down to business...vote the dems out and celebrate for a change! :-)
I’m tired of this mess!


13 posted on 10/26/2010 10:06:25 AM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: HonestConservative
Loved this Line from PJ. Democrats aren’t just dateless dweebs clambering upon the Statue of Liberty carrying a wilted bouquet and trying to cop a feel." Priceless
14 posted on 10/26/2010 10:11:26 AM PDT by ChiefJayStrongbow
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To: RexBeach

Voted this morning with the blue hairs...


15 posted on 10/26/2010 10:11:42 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: HonestConservative

great read


16 posted on 10/26/2010 10:16:45 AM PDT by PMAS
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To: ChiefJayStrongbow

He’s got a million of ‘em.


17 posted on 10/26/2010 10:25:35 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://holdingahammer.com/)
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To: HonestConservative
And Democrats hate the military, of course. Soldiers set a bad example. Here are men and women who possess what, if they chose, could be complete control over power. Yet they treat power with honor and respect. Members of the armed forces fight not to seize power for themselves but to ensure that power can bestow its favors upon all Americans.

Well said.
18 posted on 10/26/2010 10:27:49 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: HonestConservative

Haven’t read him in a while. He is still sharp as a tack. Good piece and funny. I too would like to know if Hitlery cleared up her witch status.


19 posted on 10/26/2010 10:31:46 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA ("Forces of Evil" member in good standing)
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To: Lazlo in PA

He wrote an essay in 1993 which I had tacked up on my wall when I was working for the longest time. When I was out of the office, someone lifted it.

I am unable to find the thing, and I get mad every time I think about it.

I think its been scrubbed.


20 posted on 10/26/2010 10:46:41 AM PDT by HonestConservative (http://holdingahammer.com/)
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