In the process of revisiting his ripping into Gerson/Wehner’s Commentary piece, RS McCain creates his ultimate editor’s rejection letter:
You thieving scoundrel:
We pay writers by the word. I’ve consulted our lawyers, who agree that your effort to get me to pay you for the sentence, “Herewith, a brief primer,” constitutes attempted petty larceny by the laws of this state and may also be prosecuted as a federal felony under the mail fraud statutes.
I’m cutting you a break this time, but if you ever again try to swindle me with a cheap scam like this, you’ll be buying yourself a one-way ticket to Leavenworth.
Please find another career for which you are suited, as journalism is clearly beyond your abilities.
Sincerely,
The Editor
Having read it all the way through… yup, the Commentary piece was as dull as dishwater. Roughly half of it was telling us things that we already knew, and the rest needed to be hacked down about 60%. So herewith, my brief primer:
What every Republican candidate or politician needs to say, and keep saying, from now on:
- Stop spending money that we don’t have.
- Stop using the courts to steal wins you can’t get at the voting booth.
- Stop pretending that you can make us all rich by making some of us poorer.
- Stop ignoring foreign affairs.
- Stop acting like you’re above us all.
And, finally:
- Stop calling us ‘un-American’ and ‘traitors’ when we disagree with you.
It’s only six points, but you can add-on another six representing regional issues, if you like.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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I'd add this one...
pauly1620 (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 9:47AM EST (link)Stop apologizing, especially to those that say they are our enemies.
If you’re incompetent you have to be honest, and if you’re crooked you have to be clever.
“The Rule of the City” ~Sir Desmond Glazebrook
Add this one: Stop going along, to get along. nt
penguin2 (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:10AM EST (link)Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills
Conservative Education: Suggested Reading List
Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots
And: Stop thinking you HAVE to do something
jimmuy8 (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:30AM EST (link)Just because it’s in the news, doesn’t mean we need a law.
Can’t we get a candidate who’ll promise “No New Laws?”
I tell ya’ the Texas “meet every other year and then only for a few weeks” is brilliant.
Start acting like Truth is objective -nt-
CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:43AM EST (link)Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)
soli Deo gloria
and...
alexg (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 10:51AM EST (link)Start calling out loaded questions and false choices. The only way to deal with the press is to call out their bias, not parsing your words like a politician. And the choices democrats present when facing the pressing issues of the day are always “choice A, which is a trojan horse for communism, or choice B, a total FAIL.” Options c, d, e, f, and g are left off the table, and we always go saying “but we have a different way of doing it!” instead of calling out the bogus choices. Everyday people will respond to that better in a soundbite, since you can’t get your full ideas out in the MSM’s format.
Stop lying to us
jimnden Thursday, August 20th at 2:04PM EST (link)Your exchange begs a number of questions, not the least of which being the form-over-substance chest butting better left for a few choice private e-mails. Yeah, stopping this insane rush toward socialized medicine has been refreshing, but once we get the government back under some kind of control, then what? Republicans just demonstrate – once again – that we can’t govern? That’s nuts. How about if we start by standing for not lying? How about if we stand up and say “If you want to be a democrat then fine – go ahead and vote for a woman who thinks gender and race confer wisdom. Republicans think that notion is disgusting.” If the democrats want to spend a ring-a-ding dillion on social programs – don’t lie to us and say it’s stimulus. All of the anger welling up is because people don’t trust republicans to tell the truth, either.
Interesting questions, jimnden.
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 2:20PM EST (link)What did your local GOP chair say when you asked them of him or her?
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My (combined) wish list.
Start understanding you can be voted OUT.
securitymom (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 2:24PM EST (link)nt
“Security Mom/Grandma”
Thanks
jimnden Thursday, August 20th at 3:30PM EST (link)They say the same thing the democrats say. I get an e-mail full of their talking points and a rash of envelopes I can put checks into.
No, I meant at the meetings that you go to...
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 6:08PM EST (link)…and raise hell at until they listen to you.
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Check out my blog at http://moelane.com/.
http://moelane.com/filthy-lucre-filthy-lucre/
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My (combined) wish list.
Point taken
jimnden Thursday, August 20th at 7:59PM EST (link)Got your point.
Keep up the great work, be safe.
I can't wait to read the rest of it,
Flagstaff (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 3:57PM EST (link)but McCain should be ashamed of
That should be “…a Comstock Lode of lunacy…”
He dropped the alliteration too soon.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
5 Geez, Moe, you'll hardly get paid anything for this one.
Flagstaff (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 4:01PM EST (link)I mean, it’s so short and all.
Short and sweeeeeeet!
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Even if it was double what I normally get...
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 6:10PM EST (link)…well, I don’t actually get anything, so there you go.
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
Check out my blog at http://moelane.com/.
http://moelane.com/filthy-lucre-filthy-lucre/
http://twitter.com/moelane
My (combined) wish list.
Yeah. I get the same checks you do.
Flagstaff (Diary) Friday, August 21st at 6:34PM EST (link)Right into the boards, that is.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964