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[Brad Haslett]

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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