(Via AoSHQ): In 1988, I was a Democrat. I came from a long line of Democrats; we were a good union household, the old blue-collar generation pushing the new generation into white collar. When it came to political heroes, it was FDR, Truman, JFK all the way: my parents voted for Carter, and grumbled about Reagan throughout his term. 1988 was my first election, and I went right down to the polling place and proudly voted for Dukakis/Bentsen. In short, I was a Democratic voter in a Democratic family in a Democratic state in a Democratic region who voted for two Democrats.
And if my Democratic parents had ever caught me calling a Republican First Lady crude names, even by implication, I would have gotten whacked on the ear*.
Speaking Bluntly
Mark Hemingway[snip]
Three pages in, after lamely trying to establish his bipartisan bona fides by talking up George H. W. Bush, Reid shares this charming anecdote about his early days in the Senate: “[Former Texas senator and vice-presidential candidate Lloyd] Bentsen went on and on effusively about what a quality man President-elect [H. W.] Bush was. Then he paused and said, ‘But watch out for his wife; she’s a b[*]tch.’ I have never had anything against Mrs. Bush, but guided by Bentsen’s crude advice, I’ve always said that our forty-third president is more his mother than his dad.”
Which I guess makes me different from Harry Reid.
Thank God.
Moe Lane
*In fact, my mom would probably still do it. And I’d sit there and take it, too. That’s because I was raised to respect women.
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
And yes Harry I stoped at the service station in Seachlight Nevada this past weekend and
bobojake (Diary) Thursday, May 28th at 2:29PM EST (link)I couldn’t find any body that thought that high of you. You need to go back to Seachlight and clean up your own reputation Reid.
What makes you different from Harry Reid...
Paul_In_Houston Thursday, May 28th at 2:36PM EST (link)Sir, is that you have some class.
Reid (along with the the Unholy Trio of Obama, Biden, and Pelosi (and many top people in the adminstration; I suppose like seeks like) is basically a narcissistic, feckless, arrogant snot.
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It is quite astounding the depths of depravity to which so many democrats have sunk
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Thursday, May 28th at 3:06PM EST (link)And this from a former dem that regularly denounces the party as vile and morally and intellectually bankrupt, but what this Reid snippet shows is that he deems it acceptable to speak in public this way. It would be one thing to characterize a woman this way in a private conversation, but to print this in a book makes a whole different statement about not just him, but even more so about his democratic party friends that he is confidant will not find it over the line.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
nice touch of class
bk (Diary) Thursday, May 28th at 3:10PM EST (link)NOT!
Ear Wacking
alarm1201 Thursday, May 28th at 3:23PM EST (link)In fact, my mom would probably still do it. And I’d sit there and take it, too. That’s because I was raised to respect women.
I’m 45 and my mother still boxes me in the ear once in a while. I still take like the man I was taught to be.
The beam in your eye.
Julian_Fischer Thursday, May 28th at 3:38PM EST (link)(Well, we all have to go out sometime I guess.)
You may want to direct some outrage at your own side, Moe. This site regularly makes fun of the size of Hilary Clinton’s thighs and portray her as a castrator. Do I have to produce links?
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.” — Immanuel Kant
Actually, we got remarkably civil about her during the nomination fight.
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, May 28th at 6:57PM EST (link)Amazing at the time – but, given the way that the Obama campaign contemptibly treated the woman, also inevitable.
But you knew that already. Just like you know and I know that you almost certainly have about twenty nearly identical drawings of Sarah Palin being beaten squirreled away on your hard drive.
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3 years and 2 months???
David Hinz (Diary) Thursday, May 28th at 7:32PM EST (link)that is such deep cover it is almost Mossad-like…
I am impressed…
The Minority Report — The HinzSight Report — TMRB.tv — MFOB “Miss Tagart, do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It’s resentment of another man’s achievement.”
3years and this is it?
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Thursday, May 28th at 3:44PM EST (link)Niether Moe, nor this site, are the Majority Leader of the US Senate. And, yeah, let’s have the links. Three years should have been enough time to compile a list.
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Reply to Julian_Fischer above
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Thursday, May 28th at 3:45PM EST (link)NT
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
My Mom
Pomme (Diary) Thursday, May 28th at 4:01PM EST (link)would have slapped me, then told my dad, then Dad would have made me make the long march to the back yard for a switch.
They still would. Not that I’d be willing to find out!
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views” William F Buckley Jr.
Julian Fischer
johnt Thursday, May 28th at 4:24PM EST (link)I think the last thing you would want to do is bring up the Clinton’s.
Think twice buddy, and I won’t even have to link.
Only a man, or liberal, who is willing to close his eyes to what these two characters did would make that supposed threat.
Julian my good man, one thing you haven’t seen is a Senate Majority leader disgracing himself in his low life vulgarity and stupidity the way Majority Leader Reid does habitually. Today’s complicated thought;
One has the right to expect better from so high a position. Grasp that and hold on to it.
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville