Comments on: Somewhere in time http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/ Just another Pajamasmedia.com weblog Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:40:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lifeofthemind http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76764 Lifeofthemind Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:57:00 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76764 <b>tomw</b>, My bad, thank you. Hope the poor sods assigned to her detail get their choice of a next assignment. tomw,
My bad, thank you.

Hope the poor sods assigned to her detail get their choice of a next assignment.

]]> By: Subotai Bahadur http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76749 Subotai Bahadur Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:35:57 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76749 # 74 Charles Not only John McCain being a "deadbeat" [as a conservative, I have more descriptive phrases in mind]; but also the essential nature of the party that imposed him on us. The Institutional Republican Party desperately wants to chase all conservatives out of the party, except for a couple of months every two years. The level of contempt they have for anyone who would actively oppose Democrats must be felt to be believed. Conservatives have been feeling it, and we believe it. It is no accident that it is <em>ad hoc</em> groups that are leading the fight against Buraq Hussein and TWANLOC. With very few exceptions the Republican Party is holding back, trying not to be noticed. Item, RNC Chairman Steele just gave another speech praising ACORN of all things. Item, In NY-23 [the only special election for Congress this year] in a district that normally votes 60% Republican, the party imposed a "Republican" candidate that is to the Left of the Democrat and who has mentioned switching to the Democrats after the election. And are doubling down on supporting her. Item, the only, literally, personality in the Republican party who can fill venues, draw donations, and rouse the enthusiasm that they claim that they want, is anathema to the Republican party, and its leaders attack her as harshly and often as the Democrats. Her draw is largely to Conservatives [both inside and outside the Republican party], and they hate us and the grass roots movement to try to save the country. I just got another letter Republican Senate Committee screaming that if I don't send them money that the Democrats will govern. Guess what, if I do send them money, the Democrats will govern with Republican protection. It is going back with a note on paper the size and shape of a check [so someone will open and read it] listing the Republicans they support for re-election who are functionally Democrats, and the conservatives who run who they fight. In the normal course of events, assuming that we have elections in 2010 and the votes are honestly counted, one would expect there to be major gains by Republicans in Congress. It will be less than it could be, because the Republicans cannot resist either their urges to kick their base in the teeth, or their addiction to supporting any Democrat impositions so that they will be "bipartisan" [a word that should be banned from any third party that forms]. Subotai Bahadur # 74 Charles

Not only John McCain being a “deadbeat” [as a conservative, I have more descriptive phrases in mind]; but also the essential nature of the party that imposed him on us. The Institutional Republican Party desperately wants to chase all conservatives out of the party, except for a couple of months every two years. The level of contempt they have for anyone who would actively oppose Democrats must be felt to be believed. Conservatives have been feeling it, and we believe it.

It is no accident that it is ad hoc groups that are leading the fight against Buraq Hussein and TWANLOC. With very few exceptions the Republican Party is holding back, trying not to be noticed.

Item, RNC Chairman Steele just gave another speech praising ACORN of all things. Item, In NY-23 [the only special election for Congress this year] in a district that normally votes 60% Republican, the party imposed a “Republican” candidate that is to the Left of the Democrat and who has mentioned switching to the Democrats after the election. And are doubling down on supporting her. Item, the only, literally, personality in the Republican party who can fill venues, draw donations, and rouse the enthusiasm that they claim that they want, is anathema to the Republican party, and its leaders attack her as harshly and often as the Democrats. Her draw is largely to Conservatives [both inside and outside the Republican party], and they hate us and the grass roots movement to try to save the country.

I just got another letter Republican Senate Committee screaming that if I don’t send them money that the Democrats will govern. Guess what, if I do send them money, the Democrats will govern with Republican protection. It is going back with a note on paper the size and shape of a check [so someone will open and read it] listing the Republicans they support for re-election who are functionally Democrats, and the conservatives who run who they fight.

In the normal course of events, assuming that we have elections in 2010 and the votes are honestly counted, one would expect there to be major gains by Republicans in Congress. It will be less than it could be, because the Republicans cannot resist either their urges to kick their base in the teeth, or their addiction to supporting any Democrat impositions so that they will be “bipartisan” [a word that should be banned from any third party that forms].

Subotai Bahadur

]]> By: tomw http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76739 tomw Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:58:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76739 73. Lifeofthemind: not 15 months, per this clip from secretservice.gov http://ustreas.gov/usss/protection_works.shtml "However, as a result of legislation enacted in 1997, President George W. Bush will be the first president to have his protection limited to 10 years after he leaves office." Sorry to say... Hil & Bill will be covered for life ... riding around in a government provided bullet proof limousine... Well, maybe not a limo, but in an entourage of some sort forever... tom 73. Lifeofthemind: not 15 months, per this clip from secretservice.gov

http://ustreas.gov/usss/protection_works.shtml

“However, as a result of legislation enacted in 1997, President George W. Bush will be the first president to have his protection limited to 10 years after he leaves office.”

Sorry to say… Hil & Bill will be covered for life … riding around in a government provided bullet proof limousine…

Well, maybe not a limo, but in an entourage of some sort forever…
tom

]]> By: Lorenz Gude http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76733 Lorenz Gude Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:21:39 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76733 I recently had the experience of reminiscing with my son about an incident that happened on a trip we took together 25 years ago. He remembers me turning down a liaison with a gorgeous Italian girl, and while I remember her well and even her boyfriend visiting us later back home I have no memory of what my son remembers. Perhaps we repress unpleasant memories? I certainly was a liberal at the time, but now I call myself a recovering liberal. Maybe that has something to do with it too. :-) I recently had the experience of reminiscing with my son about an incident that happened on a trip we took together 25 years ago. He remembers me turning down a liaison with a gorgeous Italian girl, and while I remember her well and even her boyfriend visiting us later back home I have no memory of what my son remembers. Perhaps we repress unpleasant memories? I certainly was a liberal at the time, but now I call myself a recovering liberal. Maybe that has something to do with it too. :-)

]]> By: Charles http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76731 Charles Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:01:31 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76731 73. Lifeofthemind: Every political movement is an alliance of interest groups and eventually I hope to see studies of the 2008 campaign that will indicate why core center right voters did not come out to vote for McCain in sufficient numbers while enough of the equivalent voters on the Democratic side did go to the polls ........... This mis states the question by the use of the word phrase "core center right". It wasn't the republicans who didn't show up for McCain. It was the conservatives. It is the conservatives who are the activists...the foot soldiers in the party. Just as liberal activists are the foot soldiers in the democratic party. For example, Sean Hannity who the Obama administration has singled out as their main opposition along with glen beck -- will not characterize himself as a republican but rather a conservative. Obama's foot soldiers knew who he was and thought he was inspirational. McCain's footsoldiers knew who he was and thought he was a deadbeat. 73. Lifeofthemind:
Every political movement is an alliance of interest groups and eventually I hope to see studies of the 2008 campaign that will indicate why core center right voters did not come out to vote for McCain in sufficient numbers while enough of the equivalent voters on the Democratic side did go to the polls
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This mis states the question by the use of the word phrase “core center right”. It wasn’t the republicans who didn’t show up for McCain. It was the conservatives.

It is the conservatives who are the activists…the foot soldiers in the party. Just as liberal activists are the foot soldiers in the democratic party.

For example, Sean Hannity who the Obama administration has singled out as their main opposition along with glen beck — will not characterize himself as a republican but rather a conservative.

Obama’s foot soldiers knew who he was and thought he was inspirational. McCain’s footsoldiers knew who he was and thought he was a deadbeat.

]]> By: Lifeofthemind http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76723 Lifeofthemind Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:22:31 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76723 I've met Hillary Clinton 4 times. I believe the technical term for her condition is Nuts. The room temperature drops when she enters. Many of her supporters, called the PUMAs for Party Unity My Ass, were a lesbian cabal. They brought some numbers and energy to the McCain campaign the final months but also brought emotional instability, a propensity for infighting and domineering and confusion on policy and principles. They may have repelled some social conservative voters who stayed home on election day. While Libertarian conservatives may support them on some issues they would not support them on others where they Hillary supporters stood for big government Democratic Party ideas. Every political movement is an alliance of interest groups and eventually I hope to see studies of the 2008 campaign that will indicate why core center right voters did not come out to vote for McCain in sufficient numbers while enough of the equivalent voters on the Democratic side did go to the polls, despite the obvious extremist elements that were associated with the Obama movement. Nothing that this administration has attempted should be a surprise but I suspect that a sizable number of Democratic Party voters are saying that they just didn't know. Fortunately the tax payers will not have to support lifetime Secret Service protection for Hillary Clinton. Just 15 more months until she and her husband are 10 years out of the White House. Jimmy Carter we are stuck with. I’ve met Hillary Clinton 4 times. I believe the technical term for her condition is Nuts. The room temperature drops when she enters. Many of her supporters, called the PUMAs for Party Unity My Ass, were a lesbian cabal. They brought some numbers and energy to the McCain campaign the final months but also brought emotional instability, a propensity for infighting and domineering and confusion on policy and principles. They may have repelled some social conservative voters who stayed home on election day. While Libertarian conservatives may support them on some issues they would not support them on others where they Hillary supporters stood for big government Democratic Party ideas.

Every political movement is an alliance of interest groups and eventually I hope to see studies of the 2008 campaign that will indicate why core center right voters did not come out to vote for McCain in sufficient numbers while enough of the equivalent voters on the Democratic side did go to the polls, despite the obvious extremist elements that were associated with the Obama movement. Nothing that this administration has attempted should be a surprise but I suspect that a sizable number of Democratic Party voters are saying that they just didn’t know.

Fortunately the tax payers will not have to support lifetime Secret Service protection for Hillary Clinton. Just 15 more months until she and her husband are 10 years out of the White House. Jimmy Carter we are stuck with.

]]> By: Parad E. Makewater http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76720 Parad E. Makewater Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:31:48 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76720 Hell, she still forgets she has a husband, and her staff has to keep reminding her to look adoring when she's around him. Hell, she still forgets she has a husband, and her staff has to keep reminding her to look adoring when she’s around him.

]]> By: trangbang68 http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76717 trangbang68 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:19:13 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76717 Like many I was hoping Obama would beat her in the Dem primary and then hopefully be defeated in the general election. Since ,I have sometimes wondered if she would have been a better choice. When I see what a characterless shrew she is, I guess it didn't matter. six of one, half dozen of the other. Like many I was hoping Obama would beat her in the Dem primary and then hopefully be defeated in the general election. Since ,I have sometimes wondered if she would have been a better choice. When I see what a characterless shrew she is, I guess it didn’t matter. six of one, half dozen of the other.

]]> By: trangbang68 http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76716 trangbang68 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:06:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76716 Gadfly, That is amazing stuff. I don't know how you live with yourself lying like that. It shows you're not a serious person , but a cynical power crazed liar who will do anything to claw your way to the top. Leadership it ain't. Gadfly, That is amazing stuff. I don’t know how you live with yourself lying like that. It shows you’re not a serious person , but a cynical power crazed liar who will do anything to claw your way to the top. Leadership it ain’t.

]]> By: gadfly http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/19/somewhere-in-time/#comment-76715 gadfly Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:44:48 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/?p=6445#comment-76715 Throughout her presidential candidate campaign, Hillary got caught up in several deviations from truth, but the most memorable was her <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/clinton-misspoke-about-bosnia-trip-campaign-says/" rel="nofollow"> sniper fire incident</a> in Bosnia, circa 1996. <blockquote>“There was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn’t go, so send the First Lady. “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”</blockquote> The problem, of course, was video evidence to the contrary. Anyone surprised? Throughout her presidential candidate campaign, Hillary got caught up in several deviations from truth, but the most memorable was her sniper fire incident in Bosnia, circa 1996.

“There was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn’t go, so send the First Lady.

“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

The problem, of course, was video evidence to the contrary. Anyone surprised?

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