Rangel in particular is a good street fighter. But both can and should become bywords for what happens when you #### with motivated conservatives.

Texas has great potential here, being a RedState with all red at the top. For starters, conservatives here more than elsewhere are just simply not nice people. I think that is the first prerequisite. And now we’re pissed off.

After I was a political appointee, I knew full well that there were several members of my staff that I could only trust when I could see them, as in see their eyes and both their hands. Had to watch one of them’s feet as well since she was female and would try to trip me, beat me to the ground, and make sure there was a reporter there. I solved the problem with her by being her biggest supporter and getting her promoted. That way she was out of my line and I had a chit on her. The other one I just took the risk that he was better in the tent peeing out that out the tent peeing in. Basically, in government, you’d best choose your staff well because you’re usually stuck with them.

And when it came to dealing with real, concrete people, GWB was just too personable and too nice a guy; he saw them all as people. I always preferred abstractions and case files. I hated most dismissal arbitrations where the first time you ever saw the grievant was when s/he was sitting there crying and shaking trying to save their job. Don’t get me wrong, I loved doing in people who thought they were players, but a lot of them were just dumbasses who were being used as cannon fodder by somebody. No honor in doing them, but it has to be done.

He was loyal to a fault with dipsticks like Scott McClellan who ended up being a tumor (and ultimately a traitor). GWB should have had someone slip a shiv between his ribs early on (figuratively, of course).

And he did not counterpunch well. He rope-a-doped until he had nothing left to punch back with.

When you start looking for a publisher, you will obviously list your previous work, but any media appearences you’ve made in the past would contribute as well.

Good luck and if you need a set of eyes on any form of the manuscript I’d be willing to help (looking for an agent for my novel right now).

Oz

(by, in many cases so called Ron Paul supporters- his movement is totally infected with leftists.)

I’ve always thought that, at some point, the far loony left and the far loony right meet in a place where the continuum bends into a circle and they become indistinguishable. To wit: I respect much of what Pat Buchanan has to say, but I found it totally consistent that he chose a communist for a running mate in his presidential campaign/publicity stunt.

(by, in many cases so called Ron Paul supporters- his movement is totally infected with leftists.)

I’ve always thought that, at some point, the far loony left and the far loony right meet in a place where the continuum bends into a circle and they become indistinguishable. To wit: I respect much of what Pat Buchanan has to say, but I found it totally consistent that he chose a communist for a running mate in his presidential campaign/publicity stunt.

They’d rescinded all the rules in the guise of re-engineering and “examining our processes.”

That’s not just true for union politics. That one sentence sums up how corporate America in general eventually succumbed to the scourges of political correctness and multiculturalism.

The above applies to any children or siblings of said officeholder.

Democrats on the other hand are definitionally good people.

Which traditionally I suppose meant not two-timing your current girlfriend, not telling company business while courting or in the bedroom, and not getting anyone pregnant – unlike a number of Congresscritters and other prominent politicians recenlty.

Though today, I wonder whether to prevent the false rape/attempted rape accusation one would need to be circumspect about with whom of the opposite sex you allow yourself to even be in a one-on-one situation without at least one other trustworthy adult present.

Indeed, in current pestilent partisan climate during the ongoing Communist revolution, along with the demise of comity and collegiality, the ranks of honest politicians seem to be fast dwindling (as in, an honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought..

Are honest adversaries likewise vanishing? That would make sainthood more necessary, I suppose.

And with that, I do remind everyone of the passing of the Late, Great, Henry Gibson….

The use of ridicule, especially when used relentlessly, helps wear down the opposition. One of the things that that Left traffics in is their presumption of self-respect and superiority. They actually believe that they are the “reality based” community.

Such a “community”, with all its pretensions, is uniquely vulnerable to such attacks.

As to Trotsky? Well, had he been a bit shrewder and a bit more pragmatic, he might have avoided that run-in he had with an icepick.

Excellent diary here, Art, laying out a pathway for survival (perhaps the only one) that won’t involve a high body count.