Posted on 11/10/2006 5:18:29 AM PST by colonel mosby
You can put me in the cave category. I confess.
It wasn't just the Weekly Standard. Any number of our "friends" spent the election season heaping uncritical praise on these Democrats rather than engaging in dispassionate analysis of their records.
If it is possible to take a half a minute away from fawning over Ann Coulter, it should be noted that she was gaga over Harold Ford--and repeatedly promoted the false claim that he is conservative.
Cancel your subscription. The libs ought to really read that magazine. When the mag rag ain't sellin they will learn whose side the bread and butter are coming from.
Macaca was a hit piece by the MSM and the editors of the Washington Post should commit Hari Kari over attacking the man's mother.
Think about it, it was an attack on the man's mother.
When it happened, I was flabbergasted. What kind of idiot would buy this stuff?
It's worth noting that the new Senators were elected with no record. And know this: Webb is an ass. Worse than McCain.
I'm also looking forward to the Ohio, Colorado and Missouri economies collapse under the automatic minimum wage increases. It's going to be a disaster for them. I'm glad I don't live there.
He also said women at Annapolis were, by definition, sluts.
Have you read any of Webb's books?
I rather think that the Weekly Standard had very little effect on the vote. I doubt that you can find ten voters among the supporters of Webb, Ford, and Tester who were even slightly influenced by the stories on these candidates.
Not exactly. He did raise the question of whether co-ed training was a good idea; that was an ongoing debate at the time in many places that had recently gone co-ed.
Questioning co-education is not same as saying that women should not be in the military at all or that they had no role in the leadership. Even if they had not been able to attend the service academies, there would still have been ways for women to become officers and I saw nothing in the article that objected to them. Webb made clear that he beleived there was a place for women in the military; the words are right there in the article.
Guess he felt their place was in the bedroom being referred to as monkey faces.
Well, that is your interpretation. I do not particularly care for Webb and am well aware of the rumors of his womanizing. However, I think his piece has been grossly misrepresented and that it was a mistake for the Allen campaign to portray him as sexist for his opposition to women in combat.
And how is my best scout today?
When I see Webb on TV I cringe. Something demented about the man. Some ugliness in his soul.
No he didn't. I have the article. There is absolutely nothing to support the accusation that he said that.
Again, I am not happy about Webb's election, particularly the way he has thrown away his principles and embraced Clinton and Kerry. That does not give me or anyone else license to misrepresent his words.
That a couple of freepers thought that since it was a novel, it was okay was quite enlightening.
Kristol has had his shorts in a major wad since McLame lost in the 2000 primary and while I had believed that Fred might have been a bit more conservative, his response one evening on Brit's show regarding illegal immigration, made me want to throw up. He too, sounded just like the usual D.C. elite, who know what's best for the great unwashed.
Perhaps not the magazine. But, Kristol and Barnes were all over Fox News the last two weeks before the election, and neither was doing anything to promote George Allen, Bob Corker, Conrad Burns, or Jim Talent.
Meanwhile, Webb, Ford Junior, Tester, and McCaskill were receiving either kid-glove or regal treatment throughout the cable and network "news".
It's not just The Weak-ly Standard per-se. It's the whole neo-con mindset, which is to make sure Republicans eat their own.
What got me here was the way so many people were willing to write the whole issue off as a person reporting on the things he saw in war.
I find it hard to believe he saw all those things in war, especially that number with the stripper and the banana.
Barnes is a little better, but he's come down a few nothses as well.
The point is that the crux of the article didn't do anything to rally Allen supporters, or discourage potential Webb voters.
Your esoteric explanation of "blood and soil conservative" may be correct, but only a very small percentage of those who read the article would have picked up on it.
There are several convoluted definitions of neo-cons but if Bill Kristol is an example - who wants to save them?
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