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January 22, 2012
Comment of the Week So Far: "The worst are full of passionate intensity."
To win, you need the middle. The middle is ready to get rid of Hussein, but they are by nature scared. An angry candidate full of passionate intensity will scare them into voting for the devil they know. They need nice kitty and gentle strokes on the head. They like uplift and they like optimism. But anger scares them. Newt is angry and so am I, but my head controls my heart, and says we need a different candidate. We cannot indulge our emotions at this moment. We must remember that this will be an uphill struggle against not only Hussein and his insane clown posse, but also against the media, the unions, the educational establishment, and a lot of other left wing institutions." -- FatMan remarking on Side-Lines: "The roar is passion. The roar is intensity. The roar is pent up frustration."
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 22, 2012 12:51 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Bullsh*t.
Posted by: ahem at January 22, 2012 12:55 PM
Has the aroma of donkey biscuits.
Posted by: twolaneflash at January 22, 2012 1:02 PM
They need nice kitty and gentle strokes on the head.
Sounds like a professional political consultant, filled with cynical contempt for the voter. Mitt has hired a boatload of these guys God knows why.
Posted by: chuck at January 22, 2012 1:17 PM
He seems to forget that a majority of independents would send Obama packing if they had their chance today.
Posted by: newton at January 22, 2012 1:25 PM
Sure. Bob Dole, John McCain, and the likes of Mitt Romney pulling down their pants and bending over to the left and the media sure has worked well for us. I'll vote for the one guy who has a record of reform and balancing budgets. Really getting tired of hearing this type of nonsense.
Posted by: DaveinPhoenix at January 22, 2012 2:45 PM
Not to put to fine a point on it Dave, but what's missing from the middle of this set: "Bob Dole, John McCain?"
Hint: His father was once president of the United States and he, as a "compassionate conservative" and a buddy of Ted Kennedy and other sleazeball liberals also served as president of the United States -- two (2!) terms.
I just love the way in which that man is always conveniently left out of the arguments against Republicans running from the center.
Posted by: vanderleun at January 22, 2012 3:45 PM
Apples and oranges.
Posted by: james wilson at January 22, 2012 5:07 PM
Meh, the middle will follow a strong, positive leader. Ronald Reagan was declared doomed because he was so radical and would terrify all the moderates. Yeah, that sure turned out to be accurate.
Non political people aren't fixated on the same stuff blog readers and writers are. They care about broader issues like the economy and safety. The guy who seems most likely to deliver that they go for, regardless of the other stuff. Most of them don't even know what exactly politicians stand for.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 22, 2012 5:11 PM
The problem is that there is no strong positive leader in this crowd.
So now what?
Posted by: Pappy at January 22, 2012 5:28 PM
We do the best we can, I just think the "you're scaring the moderates!!!!" argument is silly. Obama scares the moderates, by being insanely radical.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 22, 2012 7:07 PM