Posted on 07/08/2009 4:42:49 PM PDT by Leisler
The Republicans bring a knife to a gunfight, and lose again.
One of the most terrifying moments of my political life came last summer at the Republican convention in St. Paul. No, I don’t mean seeing John McCain careering around the Xcel Energy Center like Eyegore in Young Frankenstein, his face frozen in a Lon Chaney Sr. rictus grin as he reached across the aisle to his erstwhile friends in the media and got his hand bitten off. Rather, I’m referring to the aftermath of Sarah Palin’s outrageous acceptance speech, which whipped up the Rotary Club delegates into a frenzy of white-boy fury that not even heckling by a brave Code Pink embed could deter. Truly a fascist classic and one that sent shivers down our collectivist spines.
Even worse was the glaze of horror on the phizzes of the assembled heroes of the Mainstream Media. Andrea Mitchell — yes, the very same Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, whose employer saw no conflict of interest at all when she married then Fed pooh-bah Alan Greenspan — stood there gaping like a frog while the rest of the assembled Finemans and Matthewses and Olbermanns scurried around like roaches when the light gets turned on: What the hell just hit us? For one horrible moment, it looked as if the carefully crafted plans of David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, George Soros, and the Second Chief Directorate, first department, of the old KGB were about to gang agley.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Let’s see how many people don’t read it this time, and come to a conclusion from just reading the title!
Good satire never becomes old.
Now that's funny!
Brilliant (satire) piece. I ran across it and read it yesterday morning. A short while later, I was in my car, and I heard Rush’s substitute host (Mark Belling?) read it aloud on the air, and just hearing it spoken, it was massively riveting. I even had to pull over into a parking lot. Some deadly, devastating truth in it.
I liked what I knew about her.
The problem is that she didn’t seem to know who she was politically, apart from John McCain. At least not on the national stage.
She was as inarticulate, for sure. It always felt like she didn’t necessarily believe what she was saying - like she was regurgitating what McCains staff told her to say. But she’s gotten better from the interviews I’ve seen lately.
I knew when I say the word ‘phizzes’ that it was satire.
But, I really wouldn’t call it ‘good’.
Verbose, but not necessarily good.
I guess opinions vary.
Especially the part about the incessant filing of ethics violations, starting w/Patterson.
It is a brilliant and extremely well-written piece.
Palin - Smalin, I’m still voting for Harold Stimson for President.
Correction — Harold Stassen for president
Phizzes would be a reference to “phizzog,” a term used by the late famous Chicago poet Carl Sandburg. It’s a bit of Chicago flavor.
I think the most important point of the article is not about Palin, but just how vicious the Far Left can be.______________________________________________________ our war is not aginst flesh and blood,,,,
This guy is the best! I think I’m in love with him. Thank you for posting it, every column he write is a gem.
I’ve been having flashbacks about my 2-day stint with the Huckabee campaign in ‘08 (before I abandoned the Huckster). The individual we all were reporting to was rude & offensive. I think it is fair to describe him as a “religious bigot”, as in, “I only like people who belong to my denomination”. He also was incompetent.
The reason this is relevant is that I have nightmares that the Palin campaign will be overrun with such people and they will kill it. Some church folks have a hard time with the concept of coalition building. (Jesus never makes things easy.)
The Buchanan campaign in ‘96 had a similar problem. He attracted the angry, anti-Washington populists. They directed their anger primarily at their own volunteers and succeeded in driving them away.
I don’t see Palin’s temperament as angry. She seems more Reagan(ish). I don’t think you would last long in her organization if she heard you were being nasty.
Pat, and others don’t understand that leftism is a disease, and we should feel sorry for them. Since it is a mental disease, there is no reasoning with leftist, because they don’t hold their positions by reasoning. ( This is the fallacy that RINO’s work under. That they can ‘work’ with, or ‘reason’ lefties ) you can not.
I think that's exactly what she was doing- with no choice...like how she had to call him a maverick all the time. It felt like she was forcing that out of her mouth. I also feel that's what got her so off her feet when interviewing with Couric. She was told what she could and couldn't say, so she couldn't say what she really thought. In other interviews I have seen with her (non-election '08), she is pretty fast on her feet.
by the time Palin has 200 people in New Hampshire, nobody will be supervising the locals. The populist campaigns tend to attract various misfits and egotists. The fact that Sarah has a upbeat temperament won’t change that.
At my old age, I just don’t have the patience to watch local huckleberries make a mess out of a promising campaign.
Nobody was supervising Huckabee’s staff in Concord. Buchanan’s staff was equally without oversight. I realize that I am just thinking out loud, that’s all.
Ted Kennedy. Bwarny Fwank. Al Fwanken. Pelosi. Reid. Waxman. Bird. Maxine Walters. Hillary. Patches Kennedy. Obama. Kerry. Leaky Leahy and a hundred others.
So, in light of who we have now, what exactly is the problem?
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