I've moved to Timber's thread re the cabinet picks.
REAGANISMS:
"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world,
is so formidable as the will and moral courage
of free men and women."
- Ronald Reagan
"Here's my strategy on the Cold War:
We win, they lose."
- Ronald Reagan
"The most terrifying words in the English language are:
I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
- Ronald Reagan
"The trouble with our liberal friends
is not that they're ignorant:
It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
- Ronald Reagan
"Of the four wars in my lifetime
none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
- Ronald Reagan
"I have wondered at times about what
the Ten Commandments would have looked like
if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."
- Ronald Reagan
"The taxpayer: That's someone who works
for the federal government but doesn't have
to take the civil service examination."
- Ronald Reagan
"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal
with a big appetite at one end
and no sense of responsibility at the other."
- Ronald Reagan
"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God,
then we will be a nation gone under."
- Ronald Reagan
"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see
on this earth is a government program."
- Ronald Reagan
"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone
from now on about anything that happens:
no matter what time it is, wake me --
even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
- Ronald Reagan
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.
I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
- Ronald Reagan
"Government's view of the economy
could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
- Ronald Reagan
"Politics is not a bad profession.
If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
- Ronald Reagan
yep. he did come up with some good ones.
some of the things he did tweaked me out. but all in all, he did pretty good.
feel the same way about clinton.
try not to throw anything too sharp or solid... i worked late last night and the reflexes aren't cooking yet... :wink:
Ticomaya wrote:Quote:feel the same way about clinton.
BLASPHEMER!
guess ya can skip the treadmill, tico. looks like ya already got your cardio in for the day... :wink:
DontTreadOnMe wrote:yep. he did come up with some good ones.
some of the things he did tweaked me out. but all in all, he did pretty good.
feel the same way about clinton.
try not to throw anything too sharp or solid... i worked late last night and the reflexes aren't cooking yet... :wink:
Hey, where ya been? I was looking forward to your take on the election....
Although, I might have missed one of your posts somewhere else?
Ticomaya
Do you figure he personally came up with more than one or two of those?
blatham wrote:Ticomaya
Do you figure he personally came up with more than one or two of those?
Don't know; don't really care. :wink:
You have to love this one
Quote:November 10, 2004 -- SEN. Zell Miller (D- Ga.) laced into New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd yesterday on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show, saying, "The more Maureen Loud [sic] gets on 'Meet the Press' and writes those col umns, the redder these states get. I mean, they don't want some high brow hussy from New York City explaining to them that they're id iots and telling them that they're stupid." Miller also suggested "that red-headed woman at the New York Times" should not mock anyone's religion: "You can see horns just sprouting up through that Technicolor hair." Dowd responds: "I'm not a highbrow hussy from New York. I'm a highbrow hussy from Washington. Senator, pistols or swords?"
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/33810.htm
You actually think those reganisms were clever? I'm beginning to get how Bush could win the election.
Ticomaya wrote:blatham wrote:Ticomaya
Do you figure he personally came up with more than one or two of those?
Don't know; don't really care. :wink:
Fine. But hold off in the future, you know, just as a nod to consistency and excellence, from any shade of a hint that Churchill's reputation sits in peril.
Pretty funny stuff when you put it in perspective...
Quote:The Sore-Loser Party
Understanding Smiley, Dowd, Raines, Krugman, Maher, Sarandon, et al.
Enough.
The first resort of a sore loser is to gripe about how the game itself was unfair, how the other team doesn't play nice, how the very act of winning is all the proof necessary that the other side will "do anything" to win. The second resort is to simply make junk up about the other guy that makes you feel better about yourself.
"The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry," writes Jane Smiley, a woman who couldn't catch a clue if you used one as a pestle and her brain pan as the mortar. Smiley's now-famous hissyfit places a great deal of emphasis on the fact that the Republican base is "ignorant" while the Democratic one is enlightened. A similar point was made by the British Daily Mirror, one of whose headlines asked, "How Can 59,054,087 People Be So DUMB?"
One might ask if the Democrats really want to place so much emphasis on "ignorance" of the base as a defining difference between the parties. By all means let's break out the number-two pencils and pit the homeschoolers, tractor drivers, and Sunday-school teachers against the voters who wouldn't have shown up at the polls lest they miss a chance to meet P-Diddy.
There are other complaints as well. Take the two leading liberal columnists at the New York Times, Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman. As we all know, one's a whining self-parody of a hysterical liberal who lets feminine emotion and fear defeat reason and fact in almost every column. The other used to date Michael Douglas.Hating the "Haters"But for those of you who think your grief and disappointment justify your pious nastiness and blame-shifting for your own failures: Do keep in mind that it is precisely such self-indulgence and arrogance that costs you elections.
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blatham wrote: Fine. But hold off in the future, you know, just as a nod to consistency and excellence, from any shade of a hint that Churchill's reputation sits in peril.
Lady Astor (with a sneer): "Mr. Churchill! You are drunk!"
Churchill (with a wave of the brandy snifter): "So I am, madam, so I am. But tomorrow, I shall be sober, while you will remain ugly"
