Comments on: Rove Strikes! II

By: ninme

ninme — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:19:55 +0000

Ah… So you think Rove’s a double agent?

It’s a sound theory. Of all the people he could bump off with a minimum of effort, he hasn’t touched her.

Or maybe he’s just saving the best for last?

By: RC2

RC2 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:44:56 +0000

I just meant I think she’s stalking her rivals and taking ‘em out one by one.

By: ninme

ninme — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:01:55 +0000

I don’t think he’s made himself unelectable. The magic in Hillary, I mean…

Okay, this is one of those things that makes me look around in wonder and ask myself, “Am I the only person with a memory left in the world?” Do we not remember when they moved out of the White House carrying off half the furniture? The precise quote of Rush Limbaugh’s (or almost (I don’t have perfect verbal recall)) was “Well this puts an end to her Presidential hopes.” And yet here we are. The people forgot about it, the press forgot about it, even Rush forgot about it. And all she had to do was keep her mouth largely shut for a few years.

Kerry won’t get nominated again not because of this but because he’s pissed off too many of his friends by making such a fool of himself last time, when they were all so spectacularly hitched to his wagon.

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:12:09 +0000

Well, wf, he’d spent so much time contemplating the wonder of being John Kerry couldn’t really be expected to know all that much about anything else - including the sort of joke that people take as insults.

And he’s still refusing to apologise!! I can’t believe it!

By: wf

wf — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:51:11 +0000

Exactly, ninme! A small, childish and possibly suicidal part of me wanted Kerry to win in 04, just to see how he´d get eaten for breakfast by world leaders of both the refined and not-so-refined sort. Amazing how people who pride themselves on their education and openmindedness can be so parochial.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:00:43 +0000

Lurch (the original) was the ultimate “straight man”.

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:45:11 +0000

A guy with a face and a voice like Kerry should leave the jokes to others. He’s a natural born straight man.

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:34:43 +0000

Oops, too late. I was travelling today. Damn!

By: Brett_McS

Brett_McS — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:04:42 +0000

May I suggest a Lurch outfit for putting the wind up your dimicrat neighbours this Halloween?

By: RC2

RC2 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:42:27 +0000

I won’t press the point –it’s only an intuition–based on Kerry’s complete lack of a sense of humor. He’s forever cracking jokes and one-liners that are leaden and awkward like that. But dear Lord –presuming for 2 seconds that my intuition is right–if you make a gaffe like that and your story is it was a joke gone wrong –then what on earth would keep you from saying:I’m so sorry –that wasn’t what I meant at all –I’m so grateful for the service of our military men and women?

Of course you’re correct on the larger matter of how our elites think, and the longer Kerry goes to the mat for his comment, the more he will persuade people your interpretation is right.

Boy. First Mark Warner inexplicably withdraws, now Kerry makes himself unelectable. What magic is in Hillary?