Posted on 09/14/2007 10:13:22 PM PDT by Doofer
Good article. Thanks.
“Debates are important, but let’s don’t let the tail wag the dog here. Standing up there 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for someone to throw you the next fish is not necessarily the best way to impart your information to the American people,” Thompson said. “I’m not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish. I just don’t want to do it all the time.”
Translation?
There isn’t one. It’s folksy BS meaning less than nothing. He’s good at it.
Reason #1. Sally Quninn gushes about him.
The people who were whining that Thompson hadn’t gotten into the debates with the other candidates made me wonder if they’d ever SEEN any debates. We always complain about the format, and say they’re a waste of time. Then, when someone doesn’t participate in these silly TV shows—when someone shows leadership—we bitch about it.
Like Thompson, voters know that there is no such thing as a “pro-war” American. Americans don’t like war, any war, anytime, for any reason. Good men die and not one American likes it.That's not true. When there is a Che Guevara or Fidel Castro waging the war, American Leftists like it plenty.
ANd when we step on the necks of evil people and emerge victorious, we love it. It is human nature.
Yeah, you’re probably right. I thought it was folksy BS meaning that he considers himself too big a deal to participate.
Common denominator? Folksy BS. Just what we need.
Why I’m leaning towards Fred:
One, who chooses a career in government, will not fix government by choice. Only someone who feels it is their duty to serve in government will do their duty and fix government. Thus it is up to the people to elect only those who feel it is their duty to serve the nation. A careerist will only do what is best for their career. And that is what is wrong with both parties; they no longer are there to serve the nation but, to increase the size of their party and thus enhancing their careers.
Like I say I’m leaning towards him but we’ll see. It’s still early.
Great, great line!
I wish that Fred had appeared at the Iowa Straw Poll in August but I think that he has been absolutely correct in avoiding the various lefty run debates.
There is no way any conservative should should dignify these leftist attack "debates" run by George Stephanopolous or his ilk.
Translation?
He wants to get things done, not debate all day.
“He’d rather lose this race for the right reasons than win it for the wrong reasons and America is overdue for just such a leader.”
What? I’m pretty sure this is filler, but it’s a wierd line. Any help with this one?
He didn’t look very busy while the debates were going on.
Don't the candidates look a little bit like seals at the circus sometimes, waiting for someone to throw them the next fish in the form of a question that they can answer in a minute or so, which tells those listening so much about their stand on an issue?
doesn't need one. It stands clearly on it's own.
... Ironically that same night he was in California with Jay Leno, where many more people saw him and heard him than if he had been at the debate.
I've been screaming this from the rooftops for years.
We need to call them who they are: card carrying members of "Democratic Socialists of America" - this is NOT rhetoric.
http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html
Back in my investigative reporter days, I infiltrated a a strategy meeting of the "Democratic Socialists" in a church, literally in the shadow of our state capitol (This was some 25 years ago.
This was right after Reagan was elected.) Basically, they admitted that they had lost a lot of gains, as it were, as to operating openly as Socialists - and that they would have to continue infiltrating the Democratic Party until they were strong enough to take it over.
They have been successful. It's time to take the gloves off and call them what they actually are - and I doubt they will openly deny it, as they are committed to it -
Democratic SOCIALISTS - repeat and repeat. WE need to use it every time we mention any one of these traitors.
Just maybe some of the sheeple will wake up
seriously, fred rocks.
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