Nutjobs Ranting About Politics.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by bilmore
Not really.

See my last post, plus, I mean that in this sound-byte, image-centric campaign, Kerry has become Mr. Centrist. He's not Mr. Centrist, though, but he knows he needs to be to get those unattached voters who won't know better.

I think there are going to be lots of disaffected swing voters come next June, who got something far different than they were sold.

So it's kinda like the Compassionate Conservatism of the 2004 campaign?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?


Is this going to get deleted b/c I compared W to Satan?

Are you planning to throw him into a bottomless pit?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
John Milton? Are you and Bilmore the new Adam and Eve? Which one of you is Eve? Just b/c Bush told you to eat the fruit doesn't mean you should have.

Did you just call me a fruit?

The tone of this board is devolving rapidly.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Gattigap
So it's kinda like the Compassionate Conservatism of the 2004 campaign?

If you look at what Bush has actually done since election, he comes down as a Clinton moderate.

But he's a rednecked Texan, and so he's vilified.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by bilmore
If you look at what Bush has actually done since election, he comes down as a Clinton moderate.

But he's a rednecked Texan, and so he's vilified.

I strongly disagree, if by what he's done you include the regulatory activity of government agencies.

In any event, however, if he wanted to seem like a moderate his effective and highly skilled PR juggernaut would be playing it that way. Instead, they're not. Bush's PR moves tend mostly to be all about sucking up to the base. He seems to want to be seen as a tough-guy movement conservative, who is at the same time a decent and caring man on a personal level. He's getting his wish.

S_A_M

P.S. The "rednecked Texan" jibes are about as valid as the "effete liberal" jibes at Kerry. Take your pick.

P.P.S. Its no fun when you don't rise to the bait! (Just call me Wile E. Coyote.)

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bilmore
If you look at what Bush has actually done since election, he comes down as a Clinton moderate.

But he's a rednecked Texan, and so he's vilified.

Just like Milton, you make it easy to sympathize with the fallen devil.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Just like Milton, you make it easy to sympathize with the fallen devil.

I'd rather see you die than Kerry win.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'd rather see you die than Kerry win.

Sophie, how could you choose so?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'd rather see you die than Kerry win.

If it's directed at a poster, is it political discourse, or just being an asshole?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by taxwonk
If it's directed at a poster, is it political discourse, or just being an asshole?

I think in this case it was satire.

Low-brow satire, to be sure . . .

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by taxwonk
If it's directed at a poster, is it political discourse, or just being an asshole?

You know when you first explained why you felt the way you did, you gathered some sympathy, but when you do shit like this you waste it. Like with the homeless retard yelling at me as I walk down the street, I can't feel empathy- or say fringe.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bilmore
I think in this case it was satire.

Low-brow satire, to be sure . . .

No, not satire? Surely we can rise above French comedic forms?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You know when you first explained why you felt the way you did, you gathered some sympathy, but when you do shit like this you waste it. Like with the homeless retard yelling at me as I walk down the street, I can't feel empathy- or say fringe.

Why would you want to feel her anyway? And I don't need your sympathy, damn it, Hank!! Can't you see all I've ever really wanted was your respect?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by taxwonk
And I don't need your sympathy, damn it, Hank!! Can't you see all I've ever really wanted was your respect?

I respect people who say Ty is stupid, or that sidd is short and bad-tempered. Knock yourself out.

[bilmore]

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It's quite good.