(2007-06-04) — Editors at The New York Times are reportedly concerned that the nation’s “paper of record” may run out of ways to undercut the U.S. war effort in Iraq before the November 2008 presidential elections, and perhaps much sooner.
In what some insiders call “the nightmare scenario,” the Times would exhaust its supply of demoralizing stories based on leaked information even before the end of the 2007 calendar year.
The news comes on a day when the Times’ lead story, drawn from a leaked Pentagon document, alleges that U.S. commanders are disappointed about the progress of the troop surge in clearing and securing Baghdad neighborhoods.
According to unnamed sources in the Times newsroom, “Our only hope is a steady flow of leaks from the Pentagon and State Department. So, we still have a fighting chance.”
58 responses so far ↓
1 camojack // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:00 am
Let’s hope so.
2 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:03 am
Scott, never, never, never unestimate the ability of the anti-war left to undercut the war effort with their twisted logic. They think they’re patriots for doing so! Now how’s that for motivation?
3 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:04 am
Sheesh, where’s the coffee? That’s “underestimate” …
4 MargeinMI // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:19 am
When have they depended ‘just’ on leaks? There’s always the old fall back position of making stuff up!
5 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:33 am
God Bless America
6 Fred Sinclair // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:41 am
I understand that Benedict Arnold was one of the few real and true patriots during the overall course of the Revolutionary War. Upon his return to England he was feted with dances, dinners, parades and medals, with honors galore.
One of England’s patriots doing all he could to undermine and help defeat the Americans, fortunately his successes were limited.
To aid and abet the enemy used to be called treason, wonder what the NYT calls it?
Heirborn Ranger
7 onlineanalyst // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:58 am
Have you noticed the conspicuous lack of play in the major media about AlQaeda’s book of torture techniqes? Heaven forfend that the public be aware of the ruthlessness of those who have declared war on us!
8 conserve-a-tips // Jun 4, 2007 at 8:15 am
Did anybody happen to see any of the clips from the Dem Debate yesterday, where John Edwards proudly restated that “this war on terror is just a bumper-sticker slogan”? That right after the arrest of 3 men and hunting for a fourth who were planning to blow up one of our main airports???????? The leaks are what keeps the NYT going, and I certainly agree with Marge that they just make things up, but the underlying characteristic of all these idiots is either just plain stupid denial or treasonous self-centeredness!!!!!!!
9 conserve-a-tips // Jun 4, 2007 at 8:23 am
OK, folks, it is time to man the email lists and get the word out. The stupid senators think that we are just a-ok with the immigration bill after going home for the holidays. I guess they stayed locked up in their homes, away from constituents so they could say that. Email your friends and get people on the phones to their senators. You can find your senator and contact info here .
10 Maggie // Jun 4, 2007 at 8:24 am
CAT
You have adequately described a most hideous form of torture used on the American public.Just imagine detanees having to watch that 24/7.They would confess to kidnapping the Lindberg baby.
11 Maggie // Jun 4, 2007 at 8:36 am
CAT
Thanks for the link.Both of my NC senators were contacted.
Good Morning Onlineanalyst…….How are things in PA?
12 onlineanalyst // Jun 4, 2007 at 9:26 am
Things in PA are increasingly frustrating politically and personally, but I just keep plugging along…
Our two senators in PA are Dems, thanks to the RNC and its support of Specter (*spit*) back in 2004 and its lack of support for Santorum in 2006.
As I have told RNC phone solicitors since the last election, I have a wait-and-see about this amnesty for illegals nonsense and that I will contribute directly to candidates of my choice rather than to the party since it has willfully disregarded the sentiment of the base by funding RINOs. The solicitation letters by the party committees simply go into the trash. Those for the candidates are in my pending box, depending on whose politics and national vision most closely match my own in regard to national security, respect for the Constitution,
and fiscal responsibility.
In the meantime, I have read that phone calls are the way to proceed with registering dissatisfaction with this Kennedy-LaRaza sellout. E-mails simply disappear into the cyberhole of Congressional forgetfulness.
Let’s hope that we have something to celebrate by the Labor Day weekend Scrappleface Rally/ Scrapplefest.
13 New Paltz Journal » Blog Archive » “NY Times May Exhaust Ways to Undercut War Effort” // Jun 4, 2007 at 9:58 am
[...] Your subject has to be virtually self-satirizing for your satire of it to cease being satire and become real news. ScrappleFace has bridged that gap in its latest take on the permanent joke that is now The New York Times. [...]
14 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 10:17 am
#8 c.a.t. - What the Breck Girl suffers from is what many in the anti-war crowd suffers … cognitive dissonance.
Conservatives began noting this syndrome in leftists about three years ago. Now the left is attempting to misapply it to conservatives in hopes of muddying the debate … you know, the I’m-rubber-you’re-glue defense.
15 boberinyetagain // Jun 4, 2007 at 10:42 am
Hey gang, hows things?
online, the media isn’t touting that AlQ torture technique story for fear of giving our folks more ideas, it’s hard enough to tell us apart now.
But we torture for “righteous” reasons, the enemy just does it for fun so, there you go, the difference!
16 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:05 am
There you go again with your false moral equivalences, bober. Like a dog returning to his own vomit.
So how is beheading prisoners equivalent to putting women’s underwear on their head? How is waterboarding someone (which we do to our own troops to harden them during prisoner training) the same as strangling someone to death with wire … and then beheading them? How is branding prisoners with a hot iron or drilling holes in their bodies with an electric drill the same as putting a hood on them and then stringing wires from their fingers which lead nowhwere? How is playing Christian Aguileira (sp?) music the same as cutting off people’s ears? How is feeding prisoners until they gain twenty pounds the same as beating and starving them to death? How is temporarily depriving them of sleep the same as cutting their eyes out? And let’s not forget the western woman in Fallujah who was disemboweled and then tossed on the streets by these jihadists. Are American troops doing that as SOP? People like you can’t handle the real truth, preferring to engage in your ridiculous false moral equivalences. What Americans may have done in exception cases, the enemy does it as a matter of general practice … and things even worse.
Oh, but we shouldn’t question your patriotism during a time of war against a ruthless and implacable enemy, should we bober?
17 gafisher // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:12 am
“How is playing Christian Aguileira (sp?) music the same as cutting off people’s ears?”
Er, the second is the more merciful choice?
18 onlineanalyst // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:13 am
Boberin: Don’t even go there, seeking false equivalencies. Here is an outtake of just some of the atrocities in the AQ handbook:
In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like “blowtorch to the skin†and “eye removal.†Along with the images, which you’ll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters.
Take a look at this roundup of information with links of explicit inhumane detail that the media are ignoring: http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/05/torture_as_it_was_always_defin.php
Go and pull the “gutchies” over your own head if you insist on being an ostrich and seeing a likeness between our rules of incarceration and those of the enemy. The latter have no rules.
19 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:20 am
Bamboozled: How Americans Are Being Exploited By the Lies of the Liberal Agenda.
Read it and get an education about the party you support, bober.
20 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:23 am
gafisher, you do have a point there. I even managed to mispell her first name by transposing the last two letters in my rush! It’s Christina Aguilera, of course, and music really does suck.
21 Laughing@You // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:39 am
Hey folks, who’d you like last night?
Don’t lock in too quick I expect there’s one more. Now, none of those Democrats can talk like Dumbyah, but if you just try to sound out the words you’ll do ok.
Say, what’s this about Putin, and all them new ICBMs? This whole thing is beginning to look like some kinda dang whackamo circus, ain’t it?
And Dumbyah’s kinda like an evil Mario, if you axed me.
Say, there’s going be a pretenders parade this week, anybody know what day?
I want to pop up lots of popcorn to throw at the TV. It doesn’t hurt the TV, and the dog loves it. I think she about half-a-Repug anyway, then again, maybe it’s just the popcorn she likes.
I pick Rudy remember how he had to struggle at Notre Dame?
22 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:41 am
Being part of 5th Estate I want to tell you all, no leaks have come my way, except for the faucet in the tub. Hard times for the wheely journalist since I broke the front wheel. sigh.
I would cry the blues except for the fact things are and can be worse for others around me-so buckle up soldier and move on, even though the power chair won’t
23 da Bunny // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:44 am
Darthmeister #19, thanks for posting that review of Angela McGlowan’s book. I’ve seen her on TV a few times, and she’s quite impressive in her views. Here’s to her becoming more visible and her efforts being extremely productive!!
24 Double Tap Blog » NYT running out of ways to undercut the war? // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:47 am
[...] With tongue set firmly in check, Scrappleface declares that the New York Times is running out of ways to undercut the War on Terror: (2007-06-04) — Editors at The New York Times are reportedly concerned that the nation’s “paper of record†may run out of ways to undercut the U.S. war effort in Iraq before the November 2008 presidential elections, and perhaps much sooner. [...]
25 boberinyetagain // Jun 4, 2007 at 11:52 am
I was aware that our torture was humane and theirs was not and said so in a futile attempt to stem the tide that always (and did this time too) follows pointing out as much.
Do you really think they need to make crude drawings of poking peoples eyes out in order that others may follow their fine example? How foolish can you be? And, we have the good sense not to make crude drawings of what we really do/have done so again, we are more righteous.
I’m guessing that y’all fear the much touted plots to kill soldiers in NJ (with no guns or real plan) or the one to destroy the airport in NY (w/o explosives or a plan that might actually have suceeded beyond a large fire confined to one small area).
If anything, these plots give me great comfort, our enemys are idiots.
However, while we may well have occupied the “higher moral ground” for most of our history, that has been lost. Even if, by some chance, the accusations are false, they remain the perception of the rest of the world, especially where these apparent idiots are in charge.
26 WhereAreMyKeys // Jun 4, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Trouble at eh NYTimes…..
Seems there is a “Nightmare Scenario” looming on the horizon!Scott Ott continues to bring the best in politial parody…..
27 conserve-a-tips // Jun 4, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Darthmeister, I’m not sure that this syndrome, as defined by your link, would be the case here, as it appears that one must hold two opposing views, recognizing the validity of both but acting on only one and feeling torn. It is my obervation that the Breck Girl has only one view: What is going to be politically expedient to get me into power?
Therefore, totally denying any other possible truth by the coiffed one must demand a diagnosis of “Triple S Syndrome”. (Self-Sentered-Stupidity for those of you in Rio Linda) OK, so give me a break here - a C just wouldn’t have worked!!!
28 woodnwheel // Jun 4, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Darth: Not to hijack the thread, but I wanted to respond to #20, and seeing how you don’t have a website/e-mail address linked to your name, this is the only way to do it:
It’s confirmed: music is really getting louder
29 Snooper // Jun 4, 2007 at 1:03 pm
NY Slimes Running Out of Trash the US Material!…
Scrappleface…I LOVE the place!Editors at The New York Times are reportedly concerned that the nation’s “paper of record†may run out of ways to undercut the U.S. war effort in Iraq before the November 2008 presidential elections, and perhaps mu…
30 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Thanks woodnwheel. I’ve actually lost some hearing in my right ear going back to late 1960s and early 70s when I was listening to a lot of acid rock. It was also about the time 8-track tape players with all of 8 watts per channel were being put in cars.
I installed one in my ‘Cuda and played it flat out (wonderful bass distortion with my six inch speakers) just to hear it above the dual note rumble of my rather righteous sounding glasspacks. 340 HP typically has the ability to burn out the “glass” in glasspacks so they were little more than resonating chambers anyway! I never did attend more than a couple of concerts and was too far away from the speakers to have my hearing affected too much there. But I understand with all the high-tech/high-watt gear they have now at these concerts, especially the indoor variety, it can approach the decible level of jet engines at 100 feet! Yeeow!
31 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 1:12 pm
bober, you’d make a good defense attorney for budding jihadists: “You’re honor, my clients are innocent because they’re incompetent idiots even though they do have terrorist links and desire to kill as many infidels and apostates as they can. We must wait until they blow something up!”
Could we have won World War II with the kind of cognitive dissonance and corporate insanity engaged in by those on the left?
32 Just Ranting // Jun 4, 2007 at 1:24 pm
One afternoon John Edwards was riding in his limousine when he saw two men along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. He asked one man, “Why are you eating grass?” “We don’t have any money for food,” the poor man replied. “We have to eat grass.”
“Well, then, you can come with me to my house and I’ll feed you,” the lawyer said. “But, sir, I have a wife and two children with me. They are over there, under that tree.” “Bring them along,” Edwards replied. Turning to the other poor man he stated, “You come with us, also.” The second man, in a pitiful voice then said, “But sir, I also have a wife and six children with me!” “Bring them all, as well,” Edwards answered.
They all entered the car, which was no easy task, even for a car as large as the limousine was. Once underway, one of the poor fellows turned to John Edwards and said, “Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us with you.”
Edwards replied, “Glad to do it. You’ll really love my place. The grass is almost a foot high.”
33 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Here’s the account of the eight German saboteurs, six of whom were put to death despite the fact they didn’t kill anyone and hadn’t blown anything up … yet. I suppose bober would have written a nasty note to FDR whining that the government should cut the German saboteurs some slack by “taking the high road.” Yeah, right.
Excerpt:
All eight were found guilty of sabotage and sentenced to death. Attorney General Biddle and J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, appealed to President Roosevelt to commute the sentences of Dasch and Burger. Dasch then received a sentence of 30 years and Burger a life sentence, both to be served in a federal penitentiary. The remaining six were executed at the District of Columbia Jail on August 8, 1942.
The German intelligence service was so shaken by the outcome of this effort that no similar sabotage attempt was ever made again. The German naval high command also would not allow a valuable submarine to be risked for another sabotage mission, a review of records following the war revealed.
Evil regimes only understand the use of raw power and uncompromising justice neither of which limp-wristed liberals will allow this country to use against its sworn enemies. Unfortunately liberals demonstrate a level of naive stupidity only found cattle being led to the slaughterhouse. Wake up, bober, the wolf crouches at the door and it is only better men then you or the other trolls who keep you safe, fat and contented. It’s no accident taking the war to Islamofascists has kept another 9/11 from happening the last five and half years.
34 boberinyetagain // Jun 4, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Equating the Germans with the current bunch is a tad disingenous, is it not? The Germans likely had actual thought out plans, actual weapons and the knowledge needed to use them and the means of transport to get to an intended target. Most, if not all of those elements is missing (thankfully) from the current crop. Grade school kids could conceive and execute better terror plots. Heck, high schoolers already have with dramatic effect, all w/o any help from Osama
35 onlineanalyst // Jun 4, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Only the psychotic confuse perception with reality. Then again, pyschosis defines the post-modern mindset.
36 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Nothing worst than left-wing legalists overcompartmentalizing in order to escape an object lesson. It’s not you were making and even more false equivalence eh, bober?
Luke 17:18 - Jesus: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man …”
bober: Wait a minute Jesus, I’m not a judge, what does this have to do with me?
second critic: I do hold my fellow man in high regard, so why should I listen to you?
third critic: How do we know you know what you’re talking about, Jesus? You ever been a judge … on earth that is?
fourth critic: What was this “certain city”? You’re just making this up. I’m going to factcheck you.
fifth critic: City? I don’t live in no stinkin’ city. I live in the country making my living growing crops. So whatever you have to say to me Jesus isn’t going to apply.
bober, if nothing else just look at the World War II historical account as a metaphor AND THEN APPLY IT TO THE SITUATION TODAY. Sheesh! You’re worse than the Pharisees in wanting to escape an obvious object lesson.
37 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Sheesh, should read: “…it’s not LIKE you were making AN even more false equivalence ON THE TORTURE ISSUE…”
38 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 4, 2007 at 3:50 pm
One can only imagine the glee with which some of the Leftists who make comments here would greet another slaughter of innocent men, women and children here in our country.
Repulsive, big time.
39 boberinyetagain // Jun 4, 2007 at 4:29 pm
jameson, I beg to differ, it’s the conservatives that would take some measure of glee in a fresh attack saying the likes of…
“we warned you”
“you wouldn’t listen”
“we did not give up enough liberty, thus we are persecuted”
“we did not ban all abortion, the gays, a host of other percieved evils, thus this is our retribution”
“oh crap, we fought them over there and they still came here” will prolly be my favorite.
And Hank, what are we now, quoting Jimmy Carter? Al la, “I have lustet in my heart”
Many here and abroad, some natural born citizens, some people of every color and creed, harbor ill will. Some of that for good reason, some not so good, some are completely mad, no reason at all.
However, it’s a long shot from harboring ill will andactually managing to do something about it. As kids we had all sorts of plans/schemes in mind, spent many hours chatting about them, fantasizing (even if we meant evey word at the time)
Some/most were honorable or at least harmless, some were not but, that’s all they were, fantacy. No one was arrested. That’s because, even if they were slightly less than honorable, we did not have the means to carry them out.
To say the Germans could have carried out their plans and the current crop cannot is not apples to oranges at all. People can say mean things but, if they cannto back them up it’s possible to chuckle and move on (note Iran/North Korea) but, if they can actually do what they say, they must be taken a tad more seriously. How that escapes you is beyond me.
40 Ms RightWing, Ink // Jun 4, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Let’s see if Congressman William Jefferson will slide out of trouble this time. Intelligence committee my butt
http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/13438616/detail.html
41 Effeminem // Jun 4, 2007 at 4:45 pm
If we haven’t accomplished anything else in Iraq, at least we’ve killed a lot of people who would otherwise live long lives as knaves and churls. Forsooth.
42 tomg // Jun 4, 2007 at 5:05 pm
FYI - Liquid hydrocarbon pipelines can’t explode.
Even with a la willing
43 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 4, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Unless you strap a big hunk of C-4 to it and detonate it-but I’m sure that’s not what you meant.
44 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 5:45 pm
You’re in denial, bober. There are none so blind as those unwilling to see. The evidence is all around you. Islamic terrorists would love to cut your sincerely decadent head from your worthless carcass if they had unfettered opportunity to do so. Your bleatings would only entertain them. Get a clue, check out this site. You can’t handle the truth.
These are some of the more significant terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalist jihadists that the lamestream media has bothered to cover. There are literally thousands of other cases. The Islamofascist have already declared war on the civilized world, bober, but you stubbornly refuse the evidence of your own eyes. You really do have a bad case of cognitive dissonance.
bober’s letter to FDR if he had lived as an adult in 1941.
Please keep in mind, Mr. President, that during these times which try men’s souls, the German people led by Hitler are in no position to threaten us across the vast expanse of ocean which protects us to our East and West. The claims about Jews being rounded up and sent to concentration camps have not been proven and are only a pretense by the warmongers to get us into an illegal and immoral war that would threaten to kill the flower of our youth. Surely you’re misreading the signs, sir. Germany didn’t attack us at Pearl Harbor and please note the Japanese made a concerted effort to only attack military assets that they deemed threatened their routes of free trade in the western Pacific. They fear American imperialism and we must view their attack on Pearl Harbor in that light. No war for rubber and no war for sauerkraut, Mr. President!
Also I remind you that there are any number of Italian mafia members who continue killing innocent Americans in our streets, are you going to declare war on them, too? Why should you target innocent Germans who legitimately elected Hitler when Italians are the ones who present a bigger threat to American lives? History will harshly judge you if you escalate this unfortunate attack on Pearl Harbor into a global war which could result in the deaths of maybe 400,000 American soldiers sent on a fool’s errand into a European war, a war which isn’t ours to fight. Let the British, Soviets and the French handle the Hun and let us be ever vigilant in patroling our waters on the west coast without provoking Japan into more attacks. Thus peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars! Kumbaya!
Your inestimably brilliant servant,
Bober Chamberlain
45 Effeminem // Jun 4, 2007 at 6:17 pm
But, if we hadn’t fought Germany, then they could have faced off against the Soviet Union and we would have avoided the cold war! The Berlin Wall would never have been built, and Islam (and Judaism) would no longer threaten us.
It’s called realism, Hank. Realism.
46 conserve-a-tips // Jun 4, 2007 at 6:28 pm
And we wouldn’t have to deal with those danged French, neither.
We really missed the boat Effeminem!
Heh, did anybody see the 1/2 Hour News Hour last night? They did a skit with a guy who was a cheerleader for Jimmy Carter and he pointed out that Carter was the best ex-president in history. He said that Carter had ex-presided over the release of the Iran hostages, the end to the cold war and the tearing down of the Berlin wall and a huge economic boom. When cornered that these had happened under Reagan and later, he said, “And who put Reagan into office?????” It sounded just like Scott’s piece. Did they steal it or is Scott a secret writer? Inquiring minds want to know.
47 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 6:29 pm
You’re absolutely right, Effeminem, how could I’ve been so blind! And for the last five decades the world wouldn’t have had to suffer the various powergrab conspiracies of the Jooooooooos and neo-cons and the
dispossessed ArabsPalestinians would be living in peace as beduoins in the sandy desert of present day Israel and the Arab world would be building its own cars and airplanes, too! Dang Jooooooish bankers and warmongers.48 Pickerhead :: Pickings from the Webvine ::June 4, 2007 // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:09 pm
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49 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 4, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Since we’re on the topic, here’s what appears to be an interesting new web site from CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America).
50 Darthmeister // Jun 4, 2007 at 8:14 pm
You see, fellow Scrapplers, the reason Muslim
terroristsfreedom fighters mutilate, murder/behead American soldiers they capture is because of individual Americanstormtrooperssoldiers who at the direct orders of Bu$Hitler and KKKarl Rove put women’s panties on the heads of Muslimjihadistsfounding fathers and stack them in naked pyramids without killing them, thus leaving the stain of shame on them for the rest of their lives. And we know this to be true because both the anti-war left and Muslimfundamentalist fanaticsprogressives tell us so. Muslim fanatics need a very good reason to murder Americanpig-dogssoldiers captured on the battlefield. If we had only “taken the high road”, I’m sure the jihadists would have returned ourfascist pawnssoldiers safe and sound to the Red Cross, or at least given them a fair trial in their highly touted Muslim courts of law.BTW, since 9/11 have there been any male American soldiers captured by Muslim jihadists who haven’t been summarily put to death?
51 conserve-a-tips // Jun 4, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Darthmeister, were those naked pyramid pictures taken before or after 9/11? After? Hmmm.
52 EXT // Jun 4, 2007 at 10:35 pm
If Fred Thompson chooses not to run we’re between a rock and a hard place.
Right now the Republican field is so pathetic that the most logical choice for President in 2008 is Hillary. At least you KNOW what she is. Unless, of course, McCain becomes her running mate. They are, after all, made for each other.
Reality, though, is that unless some honest-injun conservative steps up there’ll be a lot of people sitting at home on election night asking: “Why bother…why waste the gas? It’s gonna be a liberal anyway.” And they’ll be absolutely right.
The one bright spot in a Hillary presidency:
You can pretty easily figure out what’s going to happen to the economy and start arranging your financial affairs to profit from Marxism even if that means pulling a Soros and stocking up on the currency of other nations. Currencies against which the U.S. Dollar is sure to fall. Look at this week’s news…even The Canadian Looney is approaching parity with the U.S. Dollar. The worst (unless you’re properly positioned) is yet to come.
53 myword // Jun 5, 2007 at 12:43 am
Sorry EXT - you’re misreading the tea leaves. The
Republican slate is so impressive it’s an embarrasment
of riches. I laugh when I listen to Dem pundits breathlessly report
that the Republican party is in disarray because we haven’t settled
on one candidate yet.
There is no Svengali/Soros figure telling us who
to vote for. We’ll let the campaign play itself out and
then make our decision on who can best lead us in these
dangerous times. Wouldn’t you love to convince us a large
number of conservatives will be staying home on election day.
Dream on fella.
You can go now, but don’t play with any sharp knives.
I am now slapping my hand as I had promised myself I’d never
feed the troll. It’s a waste of perfectly good food.
54 conserve-a-tips // Jun 5, 2007 at 6:25 am
Myword, EXT isn’t a troll, unfortunately. He speaks the truth. I am feeling exactly as he is. I heard a couple of days ago that our senator, Dr. Coburn, or as he is known and loved in Congress as Dr. No, may throw his hat into the ring. If you read his book, Breach of Trust, you will see that he is the most conservative out there. He is a very smart man and is interested in getting this country back on track in the spending category. He has made senators’ lives miserable with his constant insistence of sunshine on earmarks. I will be curiously watching to see if he does indeed run. Otherwise, I will be twiddling my thumbs over the ones out there stumping right now.
55 JamesonLewis3rd // Jun 5, 2007 at 7:01 am
Only 17 months to go.
56 Darthmeister // Jun 5, 2007 at 7:28 am
Latest survey: Only 15% of Americans want an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
Iraq Realists. Dhimmiecrat leaders ought to listen more to the “experts” they cite about the Iraq War. Instead they find themselves to be little more than posturing political opportunists playing to those “15%” hard-core left-wing moonbats in their party.
57 EXT // Jun 5, 2007 at 12:26 pm
RE: #53…..
Nope, not a troll. Look back on some of my previous material. Just a REALLY angry Conservative.
I’ve done my best to vote Conservative since Goldwater in 1964. I got lucky with Reagan. Since then it’s been RINO after RINO. Not when they started to campaign — but within hours (it seems) after being inaugerated.
The current crop (omitting Thompson who hasn’t yet “announced”) looks like more of the same. Unless some real conservative does step up to the plate….well, might as well vote for the worst liberal you can find. That seems to me to be Hillary. After a good dose of THAT maybe the country (if we still have one) will awaken and find the way back to economic AND social Conservatism.
Look at Bush, father and son. Both starting wars they had no intention of finishing as Truman showed the world they should be ended. Of course he was a Democrat at the time but, today, he’d never get into a Democrat primary - let alone the presidency.
Maybe George-the-younger did learn from his daddy’s mistake when he blew his “No New Taxes” pledge. But he’s fast making up for it with the Bush-Kennedy Amnesty Act of 2007!
Worried about having a liberal president after 2008? Hell, quit worrying….we got one right now.
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