[Rhodes22-list] Politics - Already Voted!

Wed Nov 1 15:54:04 EST 2006

Brad,

No problem.  My favorite dog in this fight is Tammy Lee, the Independent but
polls show Ellison at about 70% or more so it just won't matter.

Slim

On 11/1/06 3:32 PM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Slim,
> 
> If we still had a deal, I didn't hold up my end of the bargain. I don't envy
> your choice if you want to remain a partisan.  Here's my advice: vote for
> the best musician.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> On 11/1/06, Slim <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Brad,
>> 
>> So where are we on our deal?  (Ford for Fine)
>> 
>> Slim
>> 
>> On 11/1/06 11:47 AM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The 2006 election cycle is over for me - I voted. Let the chips fall
>> where
>>> they may!  This Kerry thing is overblown like everything is during an
>>> election run-up, but, the guy is a first class pri$5k, nerd, uh, loser.
>> The
>>> donkeys have some talented people on board, they're just not hanging
>> around
>>> the fringes.  Evan Bayh, Richardson, Obama,  anyone?
>>> 
>>> Here's Professor Hanson's observations:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *Wednesday, November 01, 2006
>>> 
>>> Kerryism* [Victor Davis
>> Hanson<%61u%74ho%72%40%76i%63t%6f%72h%61nson.c%6f%6d>
>>> ]
>>> 
>>> Kerry surely must be one of the saddest Democratic liabilities around.
>> Some
>>> afterthoughts about his latest gaffe, which is one of those rare
>> glimpses
>>> into an entire troubled ideology:
>>> 
>>> (1) How could John Kerry, born into privilege, and then marrying and
>>> divorcing and marrying out of and back into greater inherited wealth,
>>> lecture anyone at a city college about the ingredients for success in
>>> America? If he were to give personal advice about making it, it would
>> have
>>> to be to marry rich women. Nothing he has accomplished as a senator or
>>> candidate reveals either much natural intelligence or singular
>> education.
>>> Today, Democrats must be wondering why they have embraced an overrated
>> empty
>>> suit, and  ostracized a  real talent like Joe Lieberman.
>>> 
>>> (2) How could Kerry possibly claim that he was thinking of the
>> uneducated in
>>> the context of George Bush, who, after all, went to Harvard and Yale?
>>> 
>>> (3)     Some of the brightest and most educated Americans are not only
>> in
>>> the military, but veterans of Iraq. Two of the best educated minds I
>> have
>>> met-Col. Bill Hix and Lt. Col. Chris Gibson, both Hoover Security
>>> Fellows-were both Iraqi veterans. What is striking about visiting Iraq
>> is
>>> the wealth of talent there, from privates to generals. Without being
>>> gratuitously cruel, the problem of mediocrity is not in the ranks of the
>>> military, but on our university campuses, where half-educated professors
>> and
>>> non-serious students killing time are ubiquitous. Personally, I'd wager
>> the
>>> intelligence of a Marine Corps private any day over the average D.C.
>>> journalist.  Every naval officer I met at the USNA, without exception,
>>> seemed brighter than John Kerry, whose "brilliance", after all, has
>> managed
>>> to offend millions of voters on the eve of a pivotal election. If the
>>> Democrats lose, it will be almost painful to watch the recriminations
>>> against Kerry fly.
>>> 
>>> (4)     This is not the first, but third, time he has denigrated
>> soldiers in
>>> the middle of a war-and there is a systematic theme: John Kerry's
>> assumed
>>> superior morality allows him to pass judgment from on high about
>> supposedly
>>> lesser folk who become tools of a suspect military: thus we go from
>>> limb-loppers and Genghis' hordes to terrorists to dead-beats. The only
>>> constant is that the haughtiness is always delivered in the same
>>> sanctimonious, self-righteous, and patronizing tone.
>>> 
>>> (5)  The mea culpa that Democrats are blaming the war and not the
>> warriors
>>> is laughable after Sens. Durbin, Kennedy, and Kerry have collectively
>>> compared American soldiers to Nazis, Pol Pot's killers, Stalinists,
>>> terrorists, and Baathists.
>>> 
>>> (6)   The problem is that Kerry is not just a senator, but the most
>> recent
>>> presidential candidate of the Democratic Party, and thus in some sense,
>>> especially given the diminution of Howard Dean, the megaphone of the
>> entire
>>> party.
>>> 
>>> (7)      His pathetic clarification, as he blamed everyone from Tony
>> Snow to
>>> Rush Limbaugh, displayed the same Al Gore derangement syndrome, and thus
>>> raises a larger question: what is it about George Bush that seems to
>> reduce
>>> once sober and experienced liberal pros to infantile ranting?
>>> 
>>> (8)       And why is the supposedly lame Bush so careful in speech, and
>> the
>>> self-acclaimed geniuses like a Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, or Howard Dean
>>> serially spouting ever more stupidities? For all the Democrats'
>> criticism of
>>> George Bush, I can't think of a modern President who has so infrequently
>> put
>>> his foot in his public mouth, and, by the same token, can't think of any
>>> opposition that on the eve of elections seems to have an almost
>> pathological
>>> death wish.
>>> 
>>> The Democrats should use this occasion to have an autopsy of Kerryism,
>> or
>>> this strange new tony liberalism, that has turned noblisse oblige on its
>>> head. It used to be that millionaire FDRs and JFKs felt sympathy for
>> those
>>> of the lower classes and wished to ensure that the hoi polloi had some
>> shot
>>> at the American dream. But today's elite liberals-a Howard Dean, Al
>> Gore,
>>> Ted Kennedy, George Soros, Ted Turner-love the high life and playact at
>>> being leftists simply because they are already insulated from the
>> effects of
>>> their own nostrums that always come at someone poorer's expense while
>>> providing them some sort of psychological relief from guilt. Poor Harry
>>> Truman must be turning over in his grave-from bourbon, cigars, and poker
>> to
>>> wind-surfing and L.L. Bean costume of the day says it all.
>>> Posted at 8:35
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