Posted on 02/04/2007 5:09:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
I would bet money not 5% of the media has connected the dots.
Glenn beck "gets it" more than any other talk show host, or TV show host that I have heard.
Maybe Hugh Hewitt gets it as much and Mark Levin..but Glenn Beck really is focused on the radical Islamist danger.
Now BOTH parties are merely the epitome of separate actors’ guilds playing the roles for the cameras. Once the lights and mic’s are turned off, they spend their time playing golf and tennis together and buying rounds. I can imagine the chuckle they share. “So, how’d you like my line about…….”, “Oh yeah, that was a good one. Wish I had come up with that one myself. But how’d you like my slam back at you when I nailed you on……”
Simply put, these 2nd rate “professionals” are perfectly content with just providing the show. They honestly don’t care which party stays in power, so long as they remain the only two parties that CAN be in power....
Yep, you nailed it! Great article!
At this point Romney stands above the crowd. It's a long way to the nomination, though.
You just brilliantly capsulized my take about Newt Gingrich. Thank you.
Thanks for the kind words!
You remember how the NYT's and the left raged re: the Al Qaqaa robbery? They wanted to know how stuff was stolen from there when the first troops (enroute to someone else, stopped and saw it sealed), left and the space of time for the next troops to come and guard it.
Reason: There was press with them and the video came out. Oh, and El Baradei leaked the story as well, changing amounts and lying as usual.
It was listed previously as haz suits, antidotes, RDX, HMX, huge amounts of explosives and some other stuff... suddenly it was only explosives, then the story disappeared.
Meanwhile, some here had actual photos of the 3ID destroying 250 pounds of explosives at the complex there and photos of the barrels of goodies as well. That was in April 2003 after the fall of Baghdad... El Baradei leaked the story October 31, 2004, right before the election.
Does that still hold in 2007 though a lot of water has gone under the bridge since those days.
Why bring Ted Kennedy into the discussion?
LOL
LOL
I may be wrong, but I don't remember anyone making a fuss about Oren Hatch being a Mormon when he ran for President.
He is truly a Marxist in his outlook and proposals. And totally unscrupulous to boot. He is a reincarnation of Huey Long.
This is from the Social Security government web site (http://www.ssa.gov/history/hlong1.html)
Every Man a King
Huey Long was Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1930. A nominal Democrat, Huey Long was a radical populist, of a sort we are unfamiliar with in our day. As Governor, he sponsored many reforms that endeared him to the rural poor. An ardent enemy of corporate interests, he championed the "little man" against the rich and privileged. A farm boy from the piney woods of North Louisiana, he was colorful, charismatic, controversial, and always just skating on the edge. He gave himself the nickname "Kingfish" because, he said, "I'm a small fish here in Washington. But I'm the Kingfish to the folks down in Louisiana."
Huey Long was the determined enemy of Wall Street, bankers and big business and he was also a determined enemy of the Roosevelt administration because he saw it as too beholden to these powerful forces.
Huey Long did not suffer from excessive modesty. A high-school dropout who taught himself law and got a law degree in only one year of study, Long was confident he would become President of the United States in 1936. So confident was he that he wrote a book entitled My First Days in the White House in which he named his cabinet (including President Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy and President Hoover as Secretary of Commerce) and in which he conducted long imaginary conversations with FDR and Hoover designed to humiliate them and show their subservience to the boy from the piney woods of Louisiana.
The Kingfish wanted the government to confiscate the wealth of the nation's rich and privileged. He called his program Share Our Wealth. It called upon the federal government to guarantee every family in the nation an annual income of $5,000, so they could have the necessities of life, including a home, a job, a radio and an automobile. He also proposed limiting private fortunes to $50 million, legacies to $5 million, and annual incomes to $1 million. Everyone over age 60 would receive an old-age pension. His slogan was "Every Man A King."
Sounds a good bit like Webb's rhetoric today. Isn't it odd how really bad ideas just keep coming back to life, no matter how thoroughly discredited by reality? In light of Webb and his cronies I also think it's ironic that they include this line in the article "A nominal Democrat, Huey Long was a radical populist, of a sort we are unfamiliar with in our day."
 |
|
| Huey Long |
Jim Web |
They even look somewhat alike. I wonder if Webb is intentionally trying to mimic Long?
Conservative ideas sell because they make sense. People understand them on an instinctual level because they are reality based.
Ronald Reagan had a talent for skewering liberal appeals to emotion with concise eloquence. He reduced liberal sound-bites to their basic pablum and exposed liberals as whining liars.
Republican candidates who actually believe in conservative ideas and can articulate them concisesly whithout long, rambling setups are very attractive to the public.
Fleeing the political battlefield or mimicking the enemy is what loses national elections. It reinforces liberal lies when Republicans appear to accept them, (usually in the interest of avoiding the wrath of the Democrat Media). Besides, why vote for Democrat Lite when you can have the real thing?
Don't forget to mention the TV tax....
I love it. I should have known if anyone had one of those, it would be you. ROFLOL
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
