freecounterpoint: Sir Winston Isaac

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Sir Winston Isaac

13 comments:

Tecumseh said...: Nazi bitch Coulter: Instead of a Republican victory, the '94 election seemed to be a victory for the Tofflers' cyber-babble about "social wavefront analysis," "anticipatory democracy," "de-massification," "materialismo," "the Third Wave" and "decision loads."
[..]
The Tofflers were a couple of old folks who couldn't figure out how to program their VCRs, so they began writing about the "shock" of technology and how we needed government planning to deal with technological overload.

Hmmmm... I have the same problem: I never figured out how to program a VCR, or operate a remote control -- beyond pushing the up down button, or the on/off switch. I hate VCRs.; 12/08/2011 11:27 AM
Tecumseh said...: The Tofflers' recommendation that children be eased into the coming technological revolution with adult mentors sounds like the proposal of Clinton's surgeon general, Joycelyn Elders, that schools teach teenagers to masturbate. In both subject areas, the children can teach their elders a few tricks.

Maybe they can teach Charly, too?; 12/08/2011 11:29 AM
Tecumseh said...: Karl Rove dons green eyeshades, pens numbers on a white pad with a marker.

Hey, Karl, get an iPad! And learn how to program your VCR.; 12/08/2011 11:34 AM
Tecumseh said...: Single malt still working?; 12/08/2011 11:45 AM
Mr roT said...: Coulter : Yeah, Newt's a bit too idea-y for me too.

You got anyone? Perry II is all I can think of. The others have disqualified themselves for real. He has only misspoken, really, and offended some idiots that could use it.; 12/08/2011 12:06 PM
Tecumseh said...: Major Garrett offers a pretty balanced view of (some aspects) of the conundrum.

Perry: He still has not shown he can be a really national candidate. His bumbling performance (much weaker than, eg, Cain) aside, and his occasional deviations from the conservative line (hey, no candidate is perfect), methinks that's Perry's biggest problem.

In a weird sense, that's also partly Romney's problem -- much like Perry is the regional candidate (basically, Texas, with Louisiana and environs thrown in), Romney too is somewhat of a regional candidate: Northeast + Michigan + Utah + Wall Street. Gingrich, for all his many foibles, has that global reach type of appeal.

Of course, none of this means a "regional" candidate can't win the nomination -- it happened with Carter, Dukakis, and Clinton with the Dems, and with Bush Jr with the GOP. Perry's perceived advantage was that he represents the stronger region for the GOP than the one Romney represents.

But Gingrich managed to drive through the middle in between these two guys, and push ahead, basically on the strength of the fact that he's more articulate, and more fearless. But he has weaknesses -- hubris and lack of organization, chiefly, but also skeletons in the closet (Fannie & Freddie among the recent ones). We'll see how this plays.; 12/08/2011 12:34 PM
Mr roT said...: Yeah, seems that Gingrich's strength is that he doesn't acknowledge his weaknesses.

That's a dangerous strength reminiscent of Obama's bullshit hubris. We're empty.; 12/08/2011 1:33 PM
Tecumseh said...: Peggy: But he goes too far, his rhetoric becomes too slashing, the musings he shares—when he rose to the speakership, in 1995, it was that women shouldn't serve in combat because they're prone to infections—are too strange.

Ach, so?; 12/09/2011 10:54 AM
Tecumseh said...: What they fear is that he will show just enough discipline over the next few months, just enough focus, to win the nomination. And then, in the fall of 2012, once party leaders have come around and the GOP is fully behind him, he will begin baying at the moon. He will start saying wild things and promising that he may bomb Iran but he may send a special SEAL team in at night to secretly dig Iran up, and fly it to Detroit, where we can keep it under guard, and Detroiters can all get jobs as guards, "solving two problems at once." They're afraid he'll start saying, "John Paul was great, but most of that happened after I explained the Gospels to him," and "Sure, Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize, but only after I explained how people can think fast, slow and at warp speed. He owes me everything."

Sounds like Mr Rot after a double shot of Laphroaig, spiked with cortisone.; 12/09/2011 10:58 AM
Mr roT said...: Laphroaig, spiked with cortisone.

You're killing me with your words... Get me an IV setup and a stripjoint quick!; 12/09/2011 11:41 AM
Mr roT said...: BTW, that Peggy's imagination is on fire today. She must have arranged some male help or perhaps some cortisone-Laphroaig cocktail.

Seems I am missing out on a killer party.; 12/09/2011 11:43 AM
Tecumseh said...: OK, lets try another tack. How about some eggnog spiked with Rémy Martin XO? Laissez les bons temps rouler, and all that jazz.; 12/09/2011 12:12 PM
Mr roT said...: Poor substitute for cortisone and whiskey, Tyekhss (deeeeeep voice, Russian fur hat).; 12/09/2011 12:32 PM

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)