Quotes of the day
posted at 10:40 pm on October 13, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“What caused McCain’s surge? It was the choice of Palin. Who’s Palin? She’s a conservative down the line, maybe a couple detours here and there, but she’s a conservative. They’re trying to, by the way, diminish her by saying she’s a populist. The Drive-Bys today have stories, ‘If this woman’s the future of the Republican Party then the Republican Party’s dead.’ That’s what they’re writing today. Well, we can take that to mean just the exact opposite. If she or somebody like her is the future of the Republican Party, the Democrats have a lot to worry about.”
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“I know, it’s elitist to expect a candidate for president or vice president to speak like an adult… It’s even more elitist to expect a vice president to put together sentences that cohere into a minimally logical progression of thought. There was a time, however, when conservatives upheld adult standards—such as clarity of speech and thought—without apology, even in the face of the relentless downward pull of adolescent culture. But now, when a vice-presidential candidate talks like a teenager, mugs like an American Idol contestant, and traffics in syntactical dead-ends and non sequiturs, we are supposed to find her charming and authentic.”
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Entelechy on October 13, 2008 at 11:56 PM
I will always vote for Gov Palin or those like her. For ones like McCain, Frum and Allah not so much. If the choice is an Obama or a Frum I may pick Frum or I may stay home. We need gov Palin more than ever.
unseen on October 13, 2008 at 11:56 PM
I will agree with that, but there’s a reason for that. Even ignoring his training as an actor, he spent years speaking for conservatism as a political cause in any VFW hall that would have him. He’s so fully internalized it by the time he ran in 1980 that his message was indistinguishable from him.
Also, remember that the conservatism of Reagan was one rooted in staunch anti-Communism, which demanded a worldview that incorporated free-market economics, social conservatism (a theistic worldview) and a vigorous, straightforward foreign policy positions.
spmat on October 13, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Granted she was speaking off the cuff, but that makes it all the more alarming. That is scary stuff. The military does not grant me any rights. The statement is disgusting and an unwelcome error.
Try telling that to the men who fought at Bunker Hill or Freeman’s Farm or Yorktown in their quest to keep alive the dream of a government based on the Constitution.
You remember the Constitution, right? And those little items called amendments?
Bishop on October 13, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Agree, but I would add, she should watch her backside after Nov 4. The GOP is a scary-as* place to be right now. There soon will be many people, powerful or powerful in their own minds, who will be forced for once to find a real line of work. They will take their revenge on whomever happens by; many will think Sarah an easy mark for their retribution. (I think they are wrong in this regard, but it will pay her to be on guard nonetheless.)
james23 on October 13, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Death before dishonor.
Harpazo on October 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM
We are done and most likely we will never ever be a poltical force in this country again. As long as the media remains an activist agenda driven participant and not a unbiased publisher of facts and information there will be no exchange of ideas, presentation of contrasting perspectives or debate focused on the greater good. For me, survey says…..range time, “Pop pop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is” exhale through your nose, squeeze when there is no more air.
Good luck and good hunting
dmann on October 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM
So, how many times are you going to see W.?
Laura in Maryland on October 14, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Well, it is a little difficult considering Obama’s strategy.
Essentially Obama tells each segment of the electorate what they want to hear and then runs ads, with virtually unlimited (foreign?) funds to the effect of McCain is for the opposite.
To give one example I believe I saw a poll in the last few days to the effect that more people though McCain would raise taxes then Obama. You’d have to be a fool to believe Obama’s “I’ll tax everyone *but you*” schtick, but apparently, quite a number do.
How does McCain counter that level of ignorance, really?
18-1 on October 14, 2008 at 12:01 AM
The point MacDonald and other conservative “intellectuals” miss is that Palin, like Reagan, speaks to and not at the American people. Her speaking style is conversational, not speech making. And when people hear her they feel that Palin is talking to them on a personal level.
At the debate with Biden, Palin certainly did not sound like the person described in MacDonald’s screed. She was succinct and articulate.
If Heather MacDonald wants to impress a crowd with her Yale and Cambridge vocabulary, she is free to knock herself out – and put her audience to sleep in the process. Hell, why not revert to Olde English and give that a whirl.
The intellectuals of the Republican party do NOT connect with the base or with conservative democrats or independents.
Jim M. on October 14, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Ne-vah Girl Fren!
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 12:03 AM
Who grants you your rights, sir?
spmat on October 14, 2008 at 12:04 AM
As one of the active duty folks that blogs here, I wouldn’t agree that we grant rights. But police, service people and a bunch of other public servants do a lot to guarantee them.
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 12:08 AM
+1
james23 on October 14, 2008 at 12:09 AM
You nailed it. Wasn’t it WFB that said he would rather be governed by the first however many names in the phone book than the faculty of Harvard. Conservative voices need to remember that real people find common sense and common decency a lot more desirable than high-flown ideals.
Laura in Maryland on October 14, 2008 at 12:09 AM
That’s the point, 18-1. No effective message. For the first time during the campaign today, I saw a memo McCain signed with other legislators warning of the Fannie and Freddie problems.
I follow this shit closely, and had never heard of the memo. The point is – why hasn’t McCain made the point?
He’s been out front on the problems with the CRA, Fannie, Freddie and other issues with the sub-prime issue for years. I have solid conservative friends that think he has failed on the issue. That’s a big goddamned problem.
BacaDog on October 14, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Race Card….
They don’t necessarily grant the rights, but they certainly guarantee them. That’s one of the main reasons that people respect them regardless of who their commander in chief is. They are, as Jack Nicholson said, “on that wall” so we don’t have to be. That wall is what protects our rights. Those rights include the freedom to protest.
I really don’t see where you don’t get that.
jimmy the notable on October 14, 2008 at 12:11 AM
At my peril? You might be right, I’d probably pass out from shock if I heard her communicate a big idea in understandable language.
RightOFLeft on October 14, 2008 at 12:11 AM
LOL. I’m boycotting so many actors, channels, directors, and musicians, I’m down to looking at foot fungus and reading HA.
Laura in Maryland on October 14, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Win or lose the Republican party is doomed. Same with the Democratic Party. There are too many factions with either their feet in concrete or their craniums close to their prostate glands.
Oh, the names might hang on til 2012 or so, but the coming train wreck is gonna make more then headlines.
Limerick on October 14, 2008 at 12:15 AM
As the granddaughter, sister and niece of military veterans, and as the aunt and cousin of veterans and those currently serving, I give you an EPIC FAIL on your statement.
TeeDee on October 14, 2008 at 12:16 AM
Go to CSPAN and watch her communicate energy issues. She’s very impressive.
And if I remember correctly, she did seem to convey, in understandable language, that Obama was an empty suit at her convention speech.
Spirit of 1776 on October 14, 2008 at 12:16 AM
Yup, even Dennis Hopper said he was voting Obama this time. I just don’t count on any of them.
I have a big collection of older movie DVD from the Golden era of Hollywood. That and we do a lot of living history through interpretive dance with sock puppets at my house for entertainment.
not really…
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 12:17 AM
Time for a viable third party. Hard to build, though.
Entelechy on October 14, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Did any of these chattering idiots every defeat corruption in their own party???????
aikidoka on October 14, 2008 at 12:23 AM
Thanks for all of the great comments on this thread. You all are helping me through a challenging time.
All very well said.
james23 on October 14, 2008 at 12:24 AM
Not me. I left the Democratic Party when I left my liberal family back in PA many years ago and went in the service. I became a Republican because an uncle told me they would better serve me as a soldier. It was Reagan that taught me what it meant to be one and more importantly, a Conservative.
Like Zell Miller said, his party though imperfect was a like a well fitted favorite suit. I’ll stick with being a Republican and try to get the other guys to change.
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 12:27 AM
So all these boycotts and Michael Moore is still ok? :)
18-1 on October 14, 2008 at 12:27 AM
You mean this quote? –
Did she get it right? I think she did.
unclesmrgol on October 14, 2008 at 12:28 AM
18-1 on October 14, 2008 at 12:27 AM
ROFLMAO! That made my day!
Laura in Maryland on October 14, 2008 at 12:32 AM
Rush is right. The dumbokrats are worried.
They don’t want to admit they secretly like Palin.
Kini on October 14, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Don’t wave that white flag. The MSM was so full of “WWTSBQ?!?!?!111″ about Hillary, and yet she continued to win win win even though “the math” showed she never could. That she should drop out. That she was finished after “Super Tuesday.”
Give me a break. Don’t be a defeatist. Fight for America. McCain may not be perfect (and I say this from a different standpoint than many conservatives) but it’s a lot better than Obama. He has no tangible policy, and what he does say is scary.
It’s like trying to nail jello to a wall.
Hillary Clinton won the Democrats’ popular vote. And McCain will win America’s in November. No need to wave the white flag yet.
lansing quaker on October 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM
Not sure about that. Unless you’re being sarcastic, I have never seem a group of people hate another person in they way they do that poor woman without actually having been a guard at a death camp before.
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 12:40 AM
4 words…..
The Battle of Evermore.
“Oh war is the common cry, Pick up your swords and fly.
The sky is filled with good and bad that mortals never know.”
csdeven on October 14, 2008 at 12:47 AM
Quoting Camille Paglia, a real feminist, who has more smarts in her pinky than these beltway fauxservatives have in their entire body:
There’s more. Paglia disagrees with Palin on most issues but still admires her greatly.
AdrianG on October 14, 2008 at 12:48 AM
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mac_donald.htm
The pompous Ivy Leaguers and self-appointed elites think this country belongs to them and to them alone. They are both Republican and Democrat. They feel they do a good job of tolerating the rubes and can’t stand a display of ingratitude as when one of the rubes dares to think they can and should have a voice in running the country. I would love for Palin to become president just to give “Mac Donald” and her ilk a collective aneurysm.
Django on October 14, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Troll Alert!!!
landlines on October 14, 2008 at 12:57 AM
Good post.
Personally, as long as she’s a good and decent person with the ability to govern, the ability to lead, and a strong value system, I don’t care what she sounds like.
Obama eagerly rubs elbows with terrorists and has tied himself deeply to an organization that perpetrates vote fraud, but he manages to impress people with his speaking ability and rhetoric. His running mate is a political Walter Mitty, who can’t seem to distinguish between fantasy and reality. I wish someone would explain to me why that’s better for America than a ticket with a woman whose speech patterns aren’t designed to impress the wine and cheese crowd.
The right choice is obvious to me.
capitalist piglet on October 14, 2008 at 12:58 AM
I agree. What they seem to want to hold over the head of us common unwashed masses is mostly a lot of opinion and theoretical ideology.
I’d like to see them try my job for just a day or two. Real brainy muggs we have representing us in the media. Hell, they’re more afraid more afraid of losing their wine and cheese party friends in the liberal media than they are of losing this election.
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:00 AM
Me thinks the there are some on the left that possibly have realized that they “shot their wad” too early…….
Soros couldn’t control the entire world market, the new media is not going away, and Barry O is starting to stumble.
Sure, there is a good possibility that he may win, thanks to ACORN, but that story is making it’s way to MSM as well….
Maybe John is right, “We have them right where we want them…”, well John…… if the election is close, and you win, this will be 2000 x 10 all over again.
………….. put this Michael Foxtrot AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2008 at 1:01 AM
Wine and cheese, jinx!
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:01 AM
A hat tip to my buds in the Corps. We’re Marines, we’re supposed to be surrounded.
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:03 AM
I agree completely. I have rarely heard a Democrat publicly criticize some of the less articulate Democrats in congress, though. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but this circular firing squad seems to be the domain of the right.
capitalist piglet on October 14, 2008 at 1:03 AM
I was just watching the “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers”.
During the siege at Helm’s Deep, King Theoden says to Aragorn “What can men do against such reckless hate?”. I instantaneously thought of the hate campaign by the MSM and Obamaites against Sarah.
Even Republicans in the media have betrayed us like when William Wallace was betrayed in the movie Braveheart when the elitist Scotch nobles sold out to the English.
Well, let’s do what they did and mount up and go out with a blaze of glory.
This election is NOT over, despite all odds against us.
Hang in there to the end. I don’t plan on worrying about an Obama world.
Go fast and hard to the end and don’t look back. FOCUS!
Sapwolf on October 14, 2008 at 1:03 AM
NEVER!!!!
……….. I have news, PinkyBigglesworth has been re-born and has some surprises ahead.
Hold the line…………….. Hold the line!!!!!!!!
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2008 at 1:04 AM
Well, Bush comes to mind. I wasn’t sarcastic either. Many democrats have said they’ll not vote for Obama and that the party has been taken over by the Soros MoveOn.Org types. Their party has been hijacked and perverted into an orgy of anti-war leftest, anti-capitalist socialist, and pro-kooky environmentalist that would have us live in their world dictated by their choosing.
Palin is what Hillary could never be and that’s why they hate her. Palin can speak to audiences without the having to screech over the audience that Hillary had to do so often. Her message is simple and concise, they call that folksy. I call it clarity and focused. She speaks to us like someone across the kitchen table without the pretense that Joe O’Biden only pretends to do.
When Entrainment Tonight’s Mary Heart gushes about Sarah Palin looks and simi-stardome attraction, I hear the collective sigh of liberal feminist blowing a gasket in jealous rage.
I smile and think, who are the bitter clingers now.
Kini on October 14, 2008 at 1:05 AM
Uh oh…is this a game? I didn’t get the memo, and I don’t have kids, but I think when someone says “jinx” I’m supposed to do something. Like beat the hell out of them or something like that. ; )
capitalist piglet on October 14, 2008 at 1:05 AM
I will just confess:
I love wine. I love cheese. And I love Sarah Palin.
It’s time to break these stereotypes. County first; stereotypes second.
A major thing I learned from this long Democratic Primary season is that politicians should not be judged on the color of their party, but on the content of their character.
And, in that vein, I’m voting McCain-Palin without any regrets.
lansing quaker on October 14, 2008 at 1:07 AM
The reason the elites are fond of their educations is because it allows them to obfuscate the truth through convoluted logic and convincing themselves they are talking over the heads of the rest of us.
What this country needs is some good old fashion regular folks who see through the bull shit and call these vacuous ass wipes out for what they are.
csdeven on October 14, 2008 at 1:08 AM
csdeven, indeed. The founding fathers w/b proud. I think they’d love Sarah and approve of her, heartily.
Yes, hold it right there, you nutty man :)
Entelechy on October 14, 2008 at 1:11 AM
Rush has never been a Party man. He’s a Conservative. He has a realistic POV that the Republican party, at least today, is the only realistic entity that can be coaxed, cajoled, pressured, and voted into advancing the Conservative agenda.
Then you don’t know the definition of “dittoheads”. It isn’t people who swallow Rushiness. It’s people who recognize Rush’s words because his words echo what they have been thinking, suspecting, or at least sensing, for a long, long time.
Rush has been around for over 20 years, and there has been no cult grow up around him. Obama, on the other hand, personifies the pied piper. What could possibly be the difference? Wiser men than me will have to answer. I for one will not accept their answers unless Authenticity vs. the Punishment Promise are a part of their premise.
His job is to see to it that every American citizen agrees with him. Point to one single person in human history who has set his goal so ambitiously.
RushBaby on October 14, 2008 at 1:11 AM
…. and that is why the attacts are so vicious, they FEAR her. They can not relate, or even have respect for the “enemy” they see, they return to the only attacks they know……
….. by the way, there are more United States Citizens and Voters in the “Heartland” of America than in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Don’t be fooled by the MSM propoganda, if they had it in the bag, they wouldn’t be sweating, but we have to keep up the fight…….
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2008 at 1:11 AM
The reason that Leftists and the MSM hate Palin is that she, like Reagan, can make a solid point in a very few words!!!
And she makes it so powerfully and so understandably that it takes a whole week of MSM multi-page editorials, lies, and misquotes to obfuscate her point and offer a weak rebuttal. And even after all their work, ordinary voters will only remember Palins original words.
Short, powerful quotes are also not good for MSM sales.
landlines on October 14, 2008 at 1:12 AM
I gotcha now.
A coke in my family. I’d go for the Merlot these days.
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:13 AM
Amen cs
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:14 AM
:O)
Pink says “Hi”…….. and wants you to remember THIS.
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2008 at 1:17 AM
7%, now you ruined my night, my dreams, the ones for days and nights. But I still love you,
Entelechy on October 14, 2008 at 1:19 AM
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2008 at 1:17 AMDamn, you made me click on the picture. Now I’m a RACIST!!!
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:20 AM
Sarah Palin is probably one of the most “misunderestimated” politicians out there. Listen to her debates in the Alaska Governor’s race–she could match wits on policy details with anyone up there, since she had lived up there all her life. When she was suddenly thrown into national politics, she had a steep learning curve, and a few stumbles in MSM interviews, after which she had a fairly strong debate against a 36-year senator.
What she doesn’t know, she manages to deflect the questions and change the subject with a smile, while she’s a very quick study–she won’t make the same mistake twice! She does connect with people, and even if McCain loses this race, Sarah Palin has a long bright future ahead of her.
Steve Z on October 14, 2008 at 1:20 AM
Though I never developed a taste for alcohol, I have nothing against wine and cheese. It wasn’t meant to be literal – it was meant to describe people who believe that they are more cultured and somehow better than Governor Palin. For all I know, she likes wine and cheese too.
capitalist piglet on October 14, 2008 at 1:20 AM
I love Sarah Palin. She talks like a normal American. She doesn’t use those big words that have a hundred different meanings. She says it like it is. I hope she does run for President in the near future. I also believe she will shake Washington up. Go Sarah Go! Only thing is I am older then she is. :))
sheebe on October 14, 2008 at 1:21 AM
Makes two of us. You’re in not-so-bad company. Thank you hawkdriver, for your service, and for being you, and here,
Entelechy on October 14, 2008 at 1:22 AM
Welcome back to him, some of us sensed his presence! Vomit Bags are a scarce but profitable Commodity!
RushBaby on October 14, 2008 at 1:23 AM
:-)
Thanks
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:24 AM
capitalist piglet on October 14, 2008 at 1:20 AM
Obama would redistribute the wine & cheese. At that point, the elitist media would begin to cry and wet their diapers.
7%, please go to sleep now.
Entelechy on October 14, 2008 at 1:26 AM
Heavens no. Someone says “jinx”, blow kisses, don’t rain blows!
RushBaby on October 14, 2008 at 1:26 AM
Sorry to you both, and to all others, just wanted to remind you of what an “empty saddle” Barry O actually is……
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2008 at 1:26 AM
That wasn’t the thrust of my question. I was asking him where he thought his rights came from, or from whom were they granted.
Soldiers and law enforcement guarantee and protect our rights. Without them, our right to life, liberty and property would be taken from us by those who reject the rule of law and seek to impose their own rule through brute force.
And yet, those rights are not bestowed by any law, by any document. They are inherent to our nature as special creations of God. No man can make null the reality that all men are created equal, as God created us that way, and God will remain even if man passes away. So, Man may make null and void the fruits of our liberty, but Man cannot change the nature of the tree that grants that fruit.
Our honorable soldiers and law enforcement guard that tree. If one were to err in describing that relationship, it is far, far more “alarming and scary” to attribute to those men a desire to “bomb villages and kill innocent civilians” than the other extreme.
To find such fault with a politician for erring on the side of respect for our men and women in uniform, especially considering how upright and honorable they are in comparison to the militaries of antiquity is foolish, crass and “scary” on its own.
spmat on October 14, 2008 at 1:27 AM
This whole world Is one big prison yard. Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards.
Tav on October 14, 2008 at 1:27 AM
Well said.
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:29 AM
Show me a sane man and I will cure him.
Tav on October 14, 2008 at 1:29 AM
hawkdriver, I don’t quite know how to explain this in words, but whenever current or former servicepeople identify themselves on HA, I feel much safer. It’s always been part of the HA attraction that folks of all paths dwell here, especially so many from your special group.
Entelechy on October 14, 2008 at 1:30 AM
Anyone who has actually studied polls knows that there is no such group as ‘knowledgable independents’. For fifty years, as long as there have been nation-wide polls, those who identify themselves as ‘independent’ have repeatedly proven to know less about issues, to be less likely to have previously voted, and to care less about issues in particular and politics in general
recap: there is no group–not even a small one–of people who know a lot but are ‘above the fray’: they simply do not exist
Those who know and care about politics–and vote regularly–are Republicans or Democrats.
But, these independents can and sometimes to vote, and need to be appealed to–but as they know and care very little, reaching them and getting them to vote is difficult. Someone like Reagan could pull it off, which is why Repubs love him and Dems still hate him.
Most politicians, including McCain ( and Obama ) are not Reagan.
Janos Hunyadi on October 14, 2008 at 1:30 AM
Tav, with respect…………… where did you grow up?
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2008 at 1:30 AM
Prison guards are scarcely free men. They are typically prisoners too…with authority.
RushBaby on October 14, 2008 at 1:36 AM
Well…know that you are the folks we’re talking about in our creed where we say.
“I serve the people of the United States and live the Army values”
I have been taken care of by the greatest Americas who have lived during my last five years of deployments. Cards and letters and cakes and phone cards and DVDs and music and boxes of art from Mrs. Jones third grade class. That stuff always keeps us going.
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:37 AM
Yes, Good Night to all……………….. but I just can’t help myself.
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2008 at 1:38 AM
Do you ever read the speeches and letters of some of our great presidents and think, what the heck happened? This country has a vibrant intellectual tradition. Where does Sarah Palin fit in the intellectual continuum from George Washington to George Bush, and why isn’t it a problem that she’s closer to George Bush?
It isn’t that I think Palin is mediocre; her accomplishments are impressive by any standard. It’s just that I know we can do better. Reading through the comments, it seems like Republicans aren’t just rejecting their party’s intellectuals, they’re rejecting their party’s intellect.
RightOFLeft on October 14, 2008 at 1:38 AM
……. Special prayers tonight to you and your cadre.
Seven Percent Solution on October 14, 2008 at 1:41 AM
As do I, but I’m not surprised by it. I’ve worked with military folks in a limited way in my research. They truly are the best and brightest among us. They are tasked with a mission that most of us cringe at, but more importantly, they must achieve that mission’s goals under constraints that would make us frustrated and furious and with equipment built by the lowest bidder.
Pardon me for getting Confucian here, but the military is very much a caste unto itself.
spmat on October 14, 2008 at 1:41 AM
No, they are rejecting that intellect’s propensity for congratulating itself into irrelevance.
spmat on October 14, 2008 at 1:43 AM
Nite all!
And chins up.
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:44 AM
Here and there, mostly there.
Tav on October 14, 2008 at 1:47 AM
Can you give me an example? I’m not sure what you mean.
RightOFLeft on October 14, 2008 at 1:48 AM
hawkdriver on October 14, 2008 at 1:37 AM
You made me smile, with a tear in my eyes. Thank you again. You are our betters. No need to protest to the contrary.
spmat, no surprise whatsoever. I concur with all you said.
RightOfLeft, look what all that “intellect” and elitism has brought us. The founding fathers w/b disgusted, if they could look at Washington today, from the left to the right. It’s time for someone simple to take the lead, and represent the people, not cover, protect, cover up, and re-elect their own arses.
7%, good night, and thanks for your spirit.
RB, sweet dreams.
Good night to all, until we talk, fight, smile, laugh, cry, again,
Entelechy on October 14, 2008 at 1:48 AM
“RightOFLeft on October 14, 2008 at 1:48 AM”
as mark steyn says [paraphrased] — “Senator Hatch was so bummed when he found out a lot of new hampshireans were not impressed that he was a regular on meet the press.”
the beltway/nyc axis [of BOTH parties] has built an ivory tower any acamdemician would envy. peggy noonan admitted during convention that those are one of the few times they actually have to travel outside of their bubble and they hate it. that breeds a horrible insular mentality where trailing letters after your name becomes the be all end all, regardless of whether or not you can actually DO anything wth those letters!!
Buckaroo on October 14, 2008 at 1:56 AM
Lib cestpool, the Nickelodeon Channel, is running their “Kids Pick the President” online election. Anyone can vote. I just voted about 50 times. Log on! Vote Often. See what it’s like to be an ACORN voter.
http://www.nick.com/kpp/
Incidentally, they’ve run this over the past ten years, and Gore and Kerry both won in landslides.
If anyone out there doubts that Nick is an extreme lib endoctrination source to American kids, let me spell it out! Nick pushes everything from Dora the Explorer (who teaches you have to speak Spanish to get anywhere) to South of Nowhere (which is about a 15 year old girl who discovers she is a lesbian that that has sex with the “bad girl” of the school).
Since Nick is such a sewer of lib scum, I suggest all HA and MM bloggers just vote away for McCain. Not sure if it will do any good, buy what the heck.
ErinF on October 14, 2008 at 2:03 AM
As soon as you giving me an example of comments here “rejecting intellect.”
spmat on October 14, 2008 at 2:04 AM
Hey, Rush, call me. I’ll save you 48 hours or so. I posted the same thing over the weekend.
Ronnie on October 14, 2008 at 2:07 AM
I’m glad you posted your question out loud here, because I have your answer. Republicans reject neither their party’s intellectuals nor their party’s intellect reflexively. What we do reject is the abandonment of the idea of widespread knowledge and intellect. I’ll try to explain.
Our society is so specialized these days. Used to be, any man in the village had the knowledge and skills to butcher an animal for the village. Now, you expect heart surgery, yet you wouldn’t dream of submitting your thoracic cavity to the village butcher. Butcher, as a result, has become a lowly profession that is seldom spoken of, never revered, even disrespected to the point of pariahdom. Yet we sure do like our steaks and pork chops, don’t we, and get all finicky over their appearance in the grocery store.
Obviously, *Somebody* has the knowledge and skills, and is passing it along so that all of us can eat. And that somebody is not only never thanked, but is publicly ridiculed, and these days, pilloried and reviled.
So when a politician comes along who acknowledges the WORTH of the common man, such as the butcher in my example, it resonates. Because it’s the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker who feed, fatten, and illuminate the self-appointed intellectual aristocracy who are metastasizing in this country.
And to those of the aforementioned group who are still reachable, I would remind them:
1. All men are created equal.
2. So bring somebody up with you instead of de-personalizing the “masses”.
RushBaby on October 14, 2008 at 2:09 AM
Sorry, but Allahpundit, you suck!
You do everything you can to derail the McCain/Palin ticket by your doom and gloom.
Just come out and join your buddies on the right who have counted McCain/Palin out.
Do it, it’s not so hard! Join Christopher Hitchens and his ilk. Just take that step! We all know you want to.
Intrepid on October 14, 2008 at 2:15 AM
Sure. I just finished watching The Colbert Report with Kathleen Parker. She spent the time trying to explain why she was right to criticize Palin as not being ready to be POTUS. The only problem is that by doing it, she will put Obama in the POTUS and make herself that much more smug, but totally irrelevant.
Being RIGHT alone does not win elections. Uniting and fighting wins.
To elitist Noonans and Parkers it is FAR more important to be well-liked and smug by the elites of both parties rather than for the country to get our very first Marxist in the WH.
“congratulating itself into irrelevance” is the perfect phrase since it articulates the situation of many writers who are legends in their own minds/world.
Sapwolf on October 14, 2008 at 2:17 AM
Heh. Here we are trying to have an argument and neither one of us knows what the other is talking about. Go to “edit->find word” on your browser and type in “intellectual.” I bet it’s used in the context of an insult in nearly every instance. Next, try “education,” and I’ll bet its used in the same sneering tone. Now, it’s possible to be very smart with very little education, and it’s also possible to be intellectual without being very smart; but neither intellectualism or education are the character flaws they’re being made out to be.
RightOFLeft on October 14, 2008 at 2:19 AM
Hank Williams Jr On “McCain/Palin Tradition”
Connie on October 14, 2008 at 2:22 AM
I agree with you about AP being so bizarre in some of his writings that it in fact hurts more than helps.
But what is the remark about Hitchens? He is dispicable and not a conservative. He is an atheist.
Sapwolf on October 14, 2008 at 2:23 AM
I am not as pessimistic as some here. If the Republican party will not accept me as a conservative, then the blue-bloods can have it and I will work hard to establish a new party as the home of conservatives. At that point the Republicans can be master over nothing and watch their hopes for winning anything fly away to the new conservative party.
Whether the country club Republicans want to admit it or not, they haven’t won anything in decades without the Reagan conservative based doing the heavy lifting. George H.W. Bush was elected on the tails of Reagan. G.W. Bush was only elected because he convinced us he was conservative, but he lied then too. I am fully confident that a resolute and unapologetic conservative party will quickly rise to a position of power in America and supplant the Republican party.
I also believe that if we ditched the blue bloods and went to our real libertarian Conservative roots that the party would be more acceptable to a lot more of the habitually undecided voters. Many of them are only undecided because they have not found a good home that speaks to their beliefs. The policies of the blue blood Republicans are why many people felt the Democrats stood for the working American. The Republicans still have to carry that baggage even today.
Hawthorne on October 14, 2008 at 2:26 AM
I’d say there’s a popularly-elected anti-intellectual aristocracy that’s just as dangerous.
RightOFLeft on October 14, 2008 at 2:30 AM
We are supposed to find her “CHARMING AND AUTHENTIC”? No, not at all, you are entitled to an opinion, one per customer. I, however do, find her charming and authentic and I entertain myself with thoughts of what she will be talking about after the election. Have you heard about ” NUCLEAR POWER IN A BOX “? That’s just one of the things that McCain will get her to push.
bigmike on October 14, 2008 at 2:35 AM
25 Ways To Kill John McCain
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Connie on October 14, 2008 at 2:36 AM
If only that “special boy” had asked Heather to the prom all those years ago…
I bet his name was Todd.
Mr. Wednesday Night on October 14, 2008 at 2:37 AM
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