Text 13118, 74 rader
Skriven 2005-05-30 21:43:41 av Ed Connell (1:379/1.6)
  Kommentar till text 13022 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Re: Washington "Mod-squad
=================================
Hey, Gary.

 JH>> 27 May 05 23:27, Gary Braswell wrote to John Hull:

 JH>>  John Hull ->> THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote:

 JH>>>> Moderates are wimps who can't take a stand and stick to it.  They
 JH>>>> have no convictions worth standing up for other than mediocrity.
 JH>>>> This latest example of "moderates" in action in the Senate did
 JH>>>> nothing but prolong the fight that is coming.  The Democrats can't
 JH>>>> afford to let conservative judges get appointed, so they will do
 JH>>>> whatever it takes to prevent it.  But that fight is coming and no
 JH>>>> bunch of chickenshit moderates is going to do more than delay it.

 GB>>> Yeah, sure John. Moderates are just chickenshits, which is why the
 GB>>> cowards stood up to their own parties and constituents in a move
 GB>>> which likely damaged, if not ruined their power and influence in
 GB>>> their own parties, and probably ruined any kind of political
 GB>>> future.

 GB>>> Sounds like chickenshits to me.

 GB>>> I am a moderate. And I will tell you the same thing I told a
 GB>>> liberal friend I have known since I was 5 years old who holds the
 GB>>> same opinion of moderates as you do.

 GB>>> I told him, if he ever showed up at my front door to take my
 GB>>> rights away (in this case he was talking of limiting the right to
 GB>>> vote to only the "educated", i.e. college) I said he had better be
 GB>>> armed because I would shoot him dead.

 GB>>> People always make that mistake about moderates.

 GB>>> I could vomit out hyperbole like you did above about the faithful,
 GB>>> but I am not inclined to paint that broadly.

 GB>>> I agree with you however that in this case its likely to prolong
 GB>>> the the fight. I think the hope was it would give the extremists
 GB>>> and chance to cool off.

 GB>>> Fat chance.

 JH>> I said what I said and I stand by it.  You may ask WHY I feel that
 JH>> way,

 GB> Same here.

 JH>> and I would tell you its because it took a hell of a lot more courage
 JH>> to stay and fight and stick it out than it did to cave in and
 JH>> compromise with a party that can't be trusted to live up to a bargain.
 JH>> And just

 GB> Yeah, there is the dreaded "C" word again. God forbid there be nay
 GB> compromise, ever.

 GB> Compromise is how Washington works John.

 JH>> for the record, their bargain with the devil lasted exactly one week,
 JH>> because Reid and his bunch of thugs have already broken the deal.

 GB> Bargain with the devil. Gee, with rhetoric like that, is it any wonder
 GB> the deal was made to begin with.

 JH>> The only thing McCain and the other six "moderates" did was shoot Bill
 JH>> Frist in the back and make his job several times harder than it
 JH>> already was.

 GB> How is a deal to make the peace making anything harder in this case?

What peace?


--- Fidolook Lite FTN stub 
 * Origin: Procrastinate NOW, don't put it off for tomorro (1:379/1.6)