THE BEARER OF BAD NEWS: “Even before Sen. Barack Obama won his ninth-straight contest against Sen. Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin last Tuesday, wise old heads in the Democratic Party were asking this question: Who will tell her that it’s over.” - Columnist Bob Novak
“By this time next week we will know whether the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton is alive or dead. We will also know whether the legacy of William Jefferson Clinton is alive or dead. The betting here? Dead and deader.”
- Rich Galen, Mullings.com, 2/27/08
FATAL DISTRACTION
“The first rule of politics is, ‘Never count out the Clintons.’ Their political conglomerate, Clinton Inc., is like Glenn Close in that bathtub scene in the movie ‘Fatal Attraction’: It always comes back to life a second or third time.”
- Columnist Salena Zito
DON’T SELL B.O. SHORT
“In a memo about the coming general election contest with Jimmy Carter, Richard Whalen wrote Reagan’s ‘secret weapon’ was that ‘Democrats fail to take him very seriously.’ Are Republicans making the same mistake with Barack Obama?”
- Columnist Stephen Hayes of The Weekly Standard
WHAT NOT TO DO
“Republicans owe Hillary our gratitude. She has road-tested several versions of attacks on Obama that don’t work.”
- Columnist Tony Blankely
CARRYING BIG LABOR’S WATER
“(Sen. Barack) Obama’s (Patriot Employer Act) proposal would designate certain companies as ‘patriot employers’ and favor them over other, presumably not so patriotic, businesses. The legislation takes four pages to define ‘patriotic’ companies as those that: ‘pay at least 60 percent of each employee’s health care premiums’; have a position of ‘neutrality in employee [union] organizing drives’; ‘maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in the United States relative to the number of full-time workers outside of the United States’; pay a salary to each employee ‘not less than an amount equal to the federal poverty level’; and provide a pension plan. In other words, a patriotic employer is one which fulfills the fondest Big Labor agenda, regardless of the competitive implications.”
- Wall Street Journal editorial, 2/27/08
B.O.’S FINAL APPEAL
“My fellow Identity-Americans.
“As your future president I want to thank my supporters, for their… well, support.
“Your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor’s relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change.
“I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush’s youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing.
“I would also like to thank the Kennedys for coming out in support of me. There’s a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr. and Teddy killed a girl. And I’m not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively.
“And I’d like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House.
“Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt.
“I say things that sound meaningful, but don’t really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them.
“Americans are tired of thinking. It’s time to shut down the brain, and open up the heart. So when you go to vote in the primaries, remember don’t think, just do.
“And do it for me. Thank you.”
(Forwarded by a News & Views reader)
IRAQ VETERANS FOR CONGRESS
“(Scott Radcliffe is) among the dozen or so Republicans from across the country helping each other campaign under the banner of Iraq Veterans for Congress, cross-promoting each other and directing donors to a shared Web site,” reports the Associated Press today. “It’s a response to the anti-war veterans whose campaigns drew attention in 2006, among them Patrick Murphy of Philadelphia, the lone Iraq war vet serving in Congress.”
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A FIGHT WORTH FIGHTING
“Most people say we (Republicans) lost the Congress last time because of the war. I put my life on the line there, I lost friends there, and if I didn’t believe American national security was at stake, I would be the first to say so. We as messengers are as important as the message.”
- Kiernan Lalor, Iraq Veteran for Congress, running for New York’s 19th district congressional seat
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
“Gun advocates favor freedom, choice and self-responsibility. If someone wishes to be prepared to defend himself, he should be free to do so.”
- Columnist John Stossel
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“Sometimes I wish I were a Democrat because Democrats seem to have more fun. At other times I wish I were a Libertarian because Republicans are too much like Democrats. What I actually am is a right-wing independent who is registered Republican because there isn’t any place else to go.”
- Lyn Nofziger
Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: National
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