Gephardt Sneers at John Wayne his San Francisco remarks." House.

Insider Report from NewsMax.com ^ | July 26, 2003 | News Max staff

[yoe]

The leftist media establishment, as usual, ignored one of the week's juiciest quotes, so we'll just have to highlight it again, and report on its aftermath.

As NewsMax.com pointed out Wednesday, Rep. Dick Gephardt was among the Democrats grumbling even as the U.S. military took out Saddam Hussein's genocidal sons Uday and Qusay. Geppy condemned President Bush's foreign policy as "machismo" and "arrogant unilateralism."

"Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black," the White House wannabe fumed in a speech to a receptive audience: San Francisco Bar Association.

Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., chairman of the House Policy Committee and the Homeland Security Committee, retorted that Gephardt needed to "get his facts straight."

"America did not go it alone," Cox noted. "The only people suggesting that, having removed Saddam, we quit and 'hoist a few cold ones' are the isolationist Democrats to whom Rep. Gephardt was apparently directing his San Francisco remarks."

And why the slap at John Wayne?

That prissy attempt at an insult might delight a bunch of leftist lawyers in San Francisco, but would Gephardt have the guts to say that to an audience of normal people in Omaha or Pittsburgh or Orlando?

Are the White House wannabes trying to alienate Middle America? Gephardt's goof recalls the boast of zillionaire trial lawyer Sen. John Edwards that he no longer likes country music, owns a gun or pays attention to NASCAR - a triple insult to his fellow North Carolinians. Edwards even had to apologize for once hunting rabbits.

Not coincidentally, Edwards is now in danger of losing his Senate seat as well as his feeble bid for the White House.

Gephardt's curious comment raises questions about what sort of movie star he'd emulate.

An angry reader from Poplar Bluff, Mo., wrote to NewsMax, "WHAT WE NEED IS MORE JOHN WAYNE AND A HELL OF A LOT LESS FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S LITTLE DICK GEPHARDT!!!"

Another reader wondered if Gephardt preferred a Fred Astaire sort of foreign policy.

But Astaire was a class act all the way. It's safe to say Gephardt would adopt a foreign policy styled after ... Democrat operative and former movie star Barbra Streisand.

After all, babbling Babs' semi-illiterate, error-filled memos last September ordering Gephardt to attack President Bush's Iraq policy were such a hoot that even the media establishment couldn't ignore them.

[cajun-jack]

that's why reagan was so successful, bad guy does something to somebody, good guy comes along and kicks his ass or kills him...60 mins later, everyone is living happily ever after.

you can't negoiate with idots and the American people should not listen to them either.

[VadeRetro]

Another reader wondered if Gephardt preferred a Fred Astaire sort of foreign policy.

Astaire had class. Geppie probably wants to be Alan Alda.

[dighton]

John Wayne never hoisted a cold one, at least not in movies.

He did in The Quiet Man.

[Dan from Michigan]

Dick just lost his chance for 3 votes in my family for that statement alone.

[dighton]

I snapped.

“A John Wayne movie,” I said. “That’s what you were going to say, wasn’t it? We think war is a John Wayne movie. We think life is a John Wayne movie -- with good guys and bad guys, as simple as that. Well, you know something, Mister Limey Poofter? You’re right. And let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us. WE BE BAD.”

-- P.J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell.

[Consort]

"Quart Evans is a mighty cautious citizen..."

...but he would have offed Gephardt for saying that.

[alwaysconservative]

Notice how the liberals are always crying about how we "wasted the good will of the world after 9/11". the dems want us to be continually victims, which is the hallmark of their idealogy.

I've been thinking about this, and you're right. We were supposed to sit and snivel, not fight back, and remain victims for evermore. The rest of the world would feel sorry for us, and we could "use" that pity to extract benefits from them. That sounds about par for the Dems.

[hometoroost]

If the Duke hoisted it in the Quiet Man, it was probably a warm one.

[hometoroost]

"Foreign policy isn't a John Wayne movie, where we catch the bad guys, hoist a few cold ones, and then everything fades to black,"

He should have added..."at least it isn't when we run it. We lob a couple of missles or drop some bombs from 40,000 feet and run like hell."

[Newbomb Turk]

Al is that you. Go home your drunk again.

[Bluegrass Federalist]

Amen, pal.

[TheSpottedOwl]

An angry reader from Poplar Bluff, Mo., wrote to NewsMax, "WHAT WE NEED IS MORE JOHN WAYNE AND A HELL OF A LOT LESS FROM THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S LITTLE DICK GEPHARDT!!!"

Sounds like a FReeper :) I agree with that statement completely.

[RJS1950]

This person from Missouri got it right when she referred to them as the NATIONAL SOCIALIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY. They are this era's Nazis, in fact maybe the Nazis took their political ideas from them. The democrat party is the enemy of the constitution and this country.

[altura]

Did he? Okay, there's always someone who knows more than I do, darn it.

I'm a great one for a cold one myself, but it just didn't seem his style.

[RJCogburn]

Genuine double-rectified busthead!

Gephardt is partial to cold buttermilk.

[headsonpikes]

I've seen a lot of John Wayne Westerns....picture this...

Gephardt's the pusillanimous ribbon clerk, hiding behind a dry-goods counter, wetting himself. After the shooting stops, he'll crawl out the door to see if it's safe for his sorry *ss.

And then he'll be one of the yappers complaining about the Duke's rough justice.

Talk's always cheap after the threat has been dealt with.

Gephardt's a true tinhorn.

[wcbtinman]

"John Wayne never hoisted a cold one, at least not is the movies."

Yeah, he did. In 'Donovans Reef'.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Gephardt seems more the type who would run a Pee Wee Herman sort of Foriegn police, while adopting a Mickey Mouse policy for everything else.

[F.J. Mitchell]

We think funny little Dick is pathetic, but we are not going to pass up this opportunity to amuse ourselves at his expense.

[LibWhacker]

LOL . . . The man has no grit at all.