Posted on 01/29/2005 9:50:32 AM PST by quidnunc
He was well-built, blond, and nice looking. You know, he kept in shape. Oh, heck. Let’s face it: He was downright handsome. The women at his campaign events called him gorgeous. The menfolk just admired — and envied — him.
He was a born-again Christian, and made a point of saying it early and often. Too often, it seemed. Like he was trying to explain away the obvious contrast between Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself and the dark forces he was stirring: Hey, I’m not a hater. I’m a Christian. I’m a good man. I’m just telling you the truth, and how can I help it if the papers don’t understand? They’re too liberal, anyway. You know I’ll always tell you the truth. Even if it hurts or offends. I can take the heat. But I’ll still always tell you the God’s honest truth. You can trust me.
His just-finished bid for the U.S. Senate was closer than anybody’d expected. Heck, he was supposed to get trounced! Not only did he not, he had such a respectable showing that his political stock soared. He was eyeing the Governor’s Mansion.
The media were against him, he’d tell you in a heartbeat, but the people — The People! — were for him. Like him, the people had common sense. Like him, they knew that all this illegal immigration was hurting their state. They could see it happening all around them. They were out there working and sweating, but those eggheads in their Ivory Towers, what did they know?
To him, Immigration was a kind of 11-letter four-letter word. And he knew how to fling it around. Like a bullwhip.
From his legislative perch in the statehouse, he Told It Like It Was. Or, at least, like it would be if They took over. You know who They were. People with darker skin. Dirty, shifty-eyed people from another place, and another race. And They were lazy, and They were just here to eat up as much tax money as possible so the rest of Us were left without. And the newspapers apparently wanted it that way, ya know, because why else would they write all these editorials denouncing his efforts to solve the problem? Heck, every time this good ol’ Christian boy opened his mouth, one of Them Lyin’ Newspapers would chime in, using that snotty way of theirs to belittle his legislation, or twist the truth, or make it out to be something different from the fine, upstanding thing it was.
He was in the same party as the Governor, but the Governor shied away from him, too. Our handsome young man was just so … controversial. The governor — a controversial Republican himself — didn’t like to get too close. But, hey, the governor wouldn’t be governor forever, right? (In fact, it would be the governor’s last term.)
The people, you see — The People! — would always be there for our handsome, Christian man.
After all, wasn’t he just trying to give the people what they really wanted? That is, the people didn’t want the state to keep feeding Them, day after day, and giving Them shelter, night after night. The people could see how the whole state was being taken over, and they weren’t going to put up with it, not any more. And here was this shining white knight who was going to lead them … .
The year was 1990. The man’s name was David Duke. And Louisiana still hasn’t got over all the damage he did.
Yep.... thus born the slogan and bumper sticker for the Edwin Edwards campaign
'Vote for the crook--it's important.'
I don't get this one at all. What is its point? And why was it written in "punch line" format?
Oldest trick in the book. David Duke was a bigot. David Duke thought we needed to crack down on immigration. Therefore, anyone else who thinks that we need to crack down on immigration is also a bigot.
*Do you think they will admit that *their* favorite senior senator (other than Teddy) is a KKK member?
Diarrhea of the mouth?
Too difficult to include a short list from the myriad terrible things that resulted?
A simple "look at me!" "look at me!" moment?
No, the Ardemgaz editorial page is conservative and reliably supportive of Dubya.
If it's directing this editorial at anybody in particular, it would be Pat Buchanan and his ilk.
I thought it was gonna be Sen. Byrd.
Thank you dirtboy. I was totally mystified by that seemingly useless and senseless column or editorial. Must be too early and no coffee yet.
Well, for an old trick it is executed very poorly.
Logic: Dogs like bones. David Duke likes bones, therefore David Duke is a dog.
FMCDH(BITS)
Yawn. The Arkansas Democrap Gassette.
Proving, of course, that anyone who wants better highways is a bigot.
Well, that's a relief. I live in Pennsylvania which has really crappy roads. So that means I'm not a bigot. I think I'll take a pickaxe and install a couple more potholes in the neighborhood roads just to be sure.
After reading this useless drivel and all the posts, I feel like reading the article tonight just to spite the loser and his "cute" headline.
Way too obscure for me. Why don't they just come out and say what they mean so it can't be misinterpreted? If they wanted to be even more subtle and insinuating, they could've just written it in Spanish, no?
Should read: He was downright Aryan handsome after several plastic surgery procedures.
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