Following proper protocol.
Posted on 08/20/2005 3:11:55 PM PDT by Crackingham
Richard Nixon once gave me a lesson in the politics of war.
Howell Raines, then the Washington bureau chief for The Times, took some reporters to meet Mr. Nixon right before the 1992 New Hampshire primary. The deposed president had requested that Howell bring along only reporters who were too young to have covered Watergate, so we tried to express an excess of Juvenalia spirit.
Before the first vote of '92 was cast, Mr. Nixon laid out, state by state, how Bill Clinton, who was not even a sure bet for the Democratic nomination at that point, was going to defeat George Bush.
If, Mr. Nixon said, Bill could keep a lid on Hillary (who had worked on the House Judiciary Committee looking into the Nixon impeachment), he'd have it made.
"If the wife comes through as being too strong and too intelligent, it makes the husband look like a wimp," he said.
In his jaundiced view, the first President Bush had squandered his best re-election card: if the Persian Gulf war had still been going on, Mr. Bush could have been benefiting from that.
"We had a lot of success with that in 1972," Mr. Nixon told us, with that famously uneasy baring of teeth that passed for a smile.
Was he actually admitting what all the paranoid liberals had been yelping about 20 years earlier - that he had prolonged the Vietnam War so he could get re-elected?
Bush Senior made some Republicans worry that he left Iraq too soon. Bush Junior is making some Republicans worry that he is staying in Iraq too long.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Bush left Iraq way to soon. That's why we had to go back.
"Hey, What's That Sound? (Dowd)"
It's the sound of your bones creaking, Maureen, you all bitter bag.
Make that "old" bitter bag.
No, no, no -- it's Michael Douglas' "ex" breaking wind...
The NY Slimes tops the list in its writers (I won't dare to call them journalists)...barf bucket please.
Following proper protocol.
And people like Tim Russert and Bob Scheiffer calmly tell us there is no left wing media bias, or that it "splits both ways".
Another Blockbuster & Pizza nite for Mo., daydreaming about what could have been if only...
So old, bitter Mo is hearing the voices in her head again, eh?
she is still crying about zeta jones meowww
"If the wife comes through as being too strong and too intelligent, it makes the husband look like a wimp," he said.
So, in her warped mind, Michael dumping her was for the best after all? ;)
oh my ohmyohmyomy
um, uh, I'm sorry, what were we talking about?
So let me get this straight: Bush Jr. is staying in Iraq to ensure a re-election he already won and can't run for again? Amazingly devious! Rove's best work yet!
This help????
Posted by David Horowitz @ Saturday 20 August 2005, 11:47 am
Like the Bourbons the left forgets nothing and remembers nothing. In today’s column, Dowd runs over the Vietnam precedent for the Iraq war without a glimmer of acknowledgment that thanks to her and John Kerry and Jane Fonda and all the Cindy Sheehans and Michael Moores of the day, two and a half million Camobodians and Vietnamese were slaughtered at the hands of the Communists because the United States set a deadline and went home.It is striking that the same people who ignored the warnings of the Nixon Adminisration that a bloodbath would follow an American withdrawal are thumbing their nose at that inevitability today in regard to Iraq. It is equally striking that neither the Bush Administration nor spokesmen on the war like Newt Gingrich are reminding "liberals" and the country at large of that grim result.
It amazing how fiercely the intellectual classes are wedded to the fantasy of reliving the bloodbath without the slightest awareness that that is what they are doing. The reason is obvious. They are even more wedded to the fantasy of their own righteousness and the false memory of those events that they have written into history. But then sacrificing thousands and millions to an abstract idea is what the left is all about.
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