Truer Words…

Via AlphaPatriot.

From Hog On Ice about Algore’s continuing meltdown:

Al Gore is insane. We already knew he was a compulsive, shameless, artless liar. That has been proven beyond dispute. But he’s also batshit crazy.

I’ve been telling people this since 2000. I wish I could link to a video of the debate where he showed up dressed like President Reagan, with his hair done up in the Reagan style, and with Reagan-mimicking rouge applied to his cheeks. You may not remember. He even did Reagan’s signature head-bob while he talked. It was like a sketch from Saturday Night Live, only there was no punchline.

And what about that bizarre moment when he stomped over to George Bush’s side of the platform and stared at him with a broad Xanax grin on his face? What was that all about?

It should have been clear right there that not all of Al’s delegates were answering roll call, but people are reluctant to come out and say that a Presidential candidate isn’t firing on all cylinders. Even for his opponents, it’s a hard thing to believe.

If we had elected this nut, right now, Joe Lieberman would probably be President, and Al would be on a permanent vacation in a padded chamber at the renamed Camp David Berkowitz.

Ooh! Ouch!

And from e-Clair on why the Right must stand up to the Left and call it on on its viciousness:

Appeals must be made for the return of the responsible citizen who is busy conducting his own life in a respectable manner and who has stepped back from political discourse out of disgust. The responsible, adult citizen must be encouraged to rejoin the fray or we will be left at the mercy of the omnivorous, media-driven gimmie-whimsey of the consumer.

Otherwise we will live in a country run by the decisiveness of Kerry, the compassion of Hillary and the honesty of Teddy.

Can I get an “AMEN!”?

Thanks, AlphaPatriot. I wouldn’t have found those otherwise.

Lileks Cuts to the Heart

In today’s Bleat:

Listened to Dr. Rice’s testimony today while cleaning, doing puzzles, coloring – the usual morning routine. I thought she did okay. But the 9/11 commission has changed my view of the administration. I now believe that if Al Gore had been president, he would have invaded Afghanistan right away, fortified the cockpit doors, issued an executive order that made the CIA and FBI share intel, grounded all planes the moment “chatter” started mentioning “a winged victory, like the bird of righteousness,” and subjected all young Arab males to full-body searches in airports. Pakistan would have come around to our point of view right away.

Yep.

The Mechanisms of Oppression

The Geek with a .45 has a must-read post up entitled The Surreality of It All…. A taste:

We, who studied the shape and form of the machines of freedom and oppression, have looked around us, and are utterly dumbfounded by what we see.

We see first that the machinery of freedom and Liberty is badly broken. Parts that are supposed to govern and limit each other no longer do so with any reliability.

We examine the creaking and groaning structure, and note that critical timbers have been moved from one place to another, that some parts are entirely missing, and others are no longer recognizable under the wadded layers of spit and duct tape. Other, entirely new subsystems, foreign to the original design, have been added on, bolted at awkward angles.

Others pass by without a second look, with no alarm or hue and cry, as if they are blind, as if they don’t understand what they see before their very eyes. We want to shake them, to grasp their heads and turn their faces, shouting, “LOOK! Do you see what this thing is? Do you see how it might be put to use? Do you know what can happen if this thing becomes fully assembled and activated?”

If you don’t read anything else today, read this.

And I just corrected a terrible oversight. The Geek is now on my blogroll. My abject apoligies for not doing this much, much sooner.

Publicola On a Rant

Fellow blogger Publicola has a lot to say, and does it well in this piece. Excerpts:

Republicans. Not worth a damn. Not the individuals who call themselves republicans, but The Republican Party. Only thing worse is the Democrat Party. But not by much.

In D.C. we have a republican in the White House who lowered taxes. That’s it. That’s all he’s done that the Republican Party is supposed to stand for.

Not that he’s not done anything else; he just hasn’t done anything else that’s supposed to be ‘republican’.

He (& the Republican Party in general) is too devoted to the idea of government fixing all our problems. They have totally abandoned the political philosophy that set them apart from the Democrat Party. Bush may not have caused this situation himself, but he is in a position to affect a positive change. He won’t.

Much more – mostly about illegal immigration. Go read. It’s worth your time.