Well now… the sling and arrows are firing… what is happening to ‘outrageous fortune?’ and those who are trying to sell that?
This is what some of the pundits have labeled the “silly season” of politics… When we seem to get on a slick, ice-coated slope – out of control (at least verbally) and slip and slide, forgetting this IS a real contest with REAL results and REAL consequences.
We treat it like a game sometimes… and funny pictures come out. One of the most humorous I recall was seeing Candidate Carter, with a canoe paddle in hand with which he had apparently either wounded or scared off that pesky threatening rabbit in his farm pond that is remembered to this day.
George Bush has created a whole bookshelf full of one-liners directed at him and the things he said when brain and tongue were not always working in sync.
A Maine Senator -- Muskie was his name -- standing on the steps of a courthouse in
George Romney – Mitt’s Dad -- uttered three words when he got back on Michigan territory after visiting Vietnam which was sinking into the mire of a disastrous campaign run from Washington by remote controllers LBJ and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara – Those words were “I was brainwashed.” And thus he washed himself right off the possibility of being on a winning political ticket after a career at American Motors.
Well…now you’re reminded of the silly season and the fact people can take themselves – or their political party – right out of contention with a few careless syllables.
Today I’m pleading simply for good sense … and a few less gaffes from the Republican campaign ticket. May the Lord grant us wisdom! And quietness.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack
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. “JUST A MINUTE”
DIGGER SAYS FIRE THE FIRING SQUAD
Just a Minute: I’ve heard more than enough zingers from the circular-firing squad. It’s time we demanded real *thinking* go on between the GOP candidates. There’s a real “election” going on in 2012 – and I certainly don’t want four more years of “Obamanation”. Who benefits from verbal Molotov’s filled with vitriol? It’s the guy covering the nation in Air Force One at taxpayer expense.
Apparently it has not registered with some of the candidate and their strategy teams it is an election which comes November 6th in 2012. We need a quiet talk with every candidate and explain in words of one or two syllables if we get outvoted by Mr. Obama both the GOP and the Tea Party will be headed for Davy Jones Locker. Look, I lived through the Goldwater defeat – and we endured Lyndon’s “Great Society” – do we want to go through that wringer, only worse, again? I sure don’t.
<> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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