PUBLIC NUISANCES : Morning in America / The Clown of Campaign'08
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PublIc nuISanceS R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. W morning in america WASHINGTON hat a wonderful morn! Campaign ’08 is a corpse. Step gently around it. Offer a gentle wave of the hand...
...Yet beyond my little play on words, I, a Reagan conservative through and through, join with so many of my fellow Americans in taking pride in this election...
...December 2008/January 2009 THe amerIcan SPecTaTor 99...
...Soon we are going to be hearing that the Reagan conservatives are has-beens too...
...There was no violence and very little playing of the race card...
...Those principles protect personal liberty, encourage prosperity, and protect American national security...
...In his 1988 presidential bid he was caught lifting from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock the Welshman’s biographical treacle, adapting it for an American audience thus: “My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours...
...It will find the next generation of conservative political leaders...
...The United States has elected an African American to the presidency two generations after Jim Crow...
...As I said as early as the spring of 2007 in The Clinton Crack-Up (and in an interview with Brian Lamb on C-Span), the “inevitable” Hillary was “going to have real problems getting the nomination...
...To Senator Obama’s visible chagrin, Bill talked about himself first, then his White House advisors...
...He has wanted to get back into the White House for years...
...In the years ahead, the principles of Reagan conservatism came to be adopted even by Democrats...
...He was never a coal miner, and most of his early life was spent in Delaware...
...campaigned for, 12 lost...
...Doubtless the gloomiest among them is the downcast former Boy President...
...That’s where I was born and raised...
...The reason is clear...
...Kinnock’s version his Welsh ancestors “could work eight hours underground and then come up and play football...
...Nonetheless she is portrayed in the mainstream moron media as an airhead, and Senator Biden is a statesman...
...After being forced out of the 1988 race, the senator, one would have thought, would never again mention his “coal mining” heritage...
...He is from Chicago, and so am I. We know what a Chicago machine has been, and frankly I have not been reassured when I have heard him sing that he is running against “30 years of broken politics in Washington...
...They have awakened every day for almost two years eager for the electioneering fray: first the primaries, where Hillary was “inevitable” and Rudy the likely Republican candidate...
...Two days later he continued his B.S.-ing that al Qaeda’s headquarters had been moved to “the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where my helicopter was recently forced down...
...At this point we have had black generals in our military, black members of our presidential cabinets, black Supreme Court justices, black political leaders throughout the states, and black CEOs all over the lot...
...Does he mean he is bringing in “fixed politics...
...We from Chicago know what “fixed politics” has meant in Chicago, and there the fix has been in for more than 30 years...
...Yes, the campaign was a blare of competing rhetorical sophistications...
...That was when the Reagan Revolution was supposedly finished off by Iran-Contra and a stock market decline...
...This was a dreadful humiliation for Sen...
...It will refine its principles for the present needs of the nation: growth, personal liberty, and national security...
...winner has governed Alaska...
...In September Governor Palin sat before ABC’s Charlie Gibson and CBS’s Katie Couric and was asked any question that popped into their minds or the minds of their researchers...
...Senator Obama ran a deft campaign and his Chicago advisors created a formidable machine—pardon the term...
...Recall if you will that this happened two years after the Clintons brought “change” to Washington in 1992...
...If President Obama really makes good on his promise to return to the New Deal of the 1930s and the Great Society of the 1960s, a revitalized conservative movement will be back on top sooner than one might expect...
...Palin whom the media deemed controversial...
...W morning in america WASHINGTON hat a wonderful morn...
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...And Senator McCain’s rant against Wall Street for the financial crisis is another...
...The clown of campaign ’08 WASHINGTON H ow is it that an attractive woman who has been involved in state and local government since the early 1990s without much controversy is now passed off in the media as an airhead...
...As I also reported, her husband is a dreadful campaigner for anyone but himself...
...The comely governor responded adequately...
...In the coming months, the conservative movement will regroup...
...When she turned to him in the primaries she apparently knew nothing of his limitations...
...Old Europe has disdained this country for years as racially prejudiced, though for years some of our most beloved popular figures have been African Americans...
...It was rare that either candidate uttered an applause line that did not either begin with a deceit or end with one...
...Offer a gentle wave of the hand to those poor wretches over in the corner looking forlorn and lost...
...She faced a serious challenge from a younger generation of Democrats that found its candidate in the junior senator from Illinois...
...Come back to the area where my helicopter was forced down with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains...
...Relatively unreported, but nonetheless true, he wanted his wife to run in 2004...
...With the election of Senator Obama, Bill Clinton’s days of White House revelry are finito...
...Left unsaid by the senator—who rarely leaves anything unsaid—was that the helicopter was “brought down” not by enemy fire but by inclement weather...
...Critics have been writing obituaries for the conservative movement since 1964...
...No European nation has shown such tolerance to color, ethnic origins, or religious and political disagreement...
...Those are the political junkies...
...Then they heaved and sweated for Senator Barack Obama or Senator John McCain...
...Now Bill is a has-been and the historians are going to note his failed presidency...
...Both statements were rehashes of his September 9 garbagespiel that “the superhighway of terror between Pakistan and Afghanistan [is] where my helicopter was forced down...
...In 2004, of the 14 candidates he 98 THe amerIcan SPecTaTor December 2008/January 2009 r. emmeTT Tyrrell, Jr...
...When he finally referred to the 2008 Democratic candidate sitting nearby, he only diminished him...
...Senator Obama’s yawp about giving 95 percent of us a tax cut is a comely example— after all, some 40 percent of his targeted audience pays no income taxes...
...In September he also reminded us that he is a plagiarist...
...I recall their pessimistic reports with great clarity in 1987...
...Nonetheless, as we entered October it was Gov...
...Spare us your canards about racial prejudice in the Great Republic, and may I remind our European critics that 2009, the year in which Senator Obama will be inaugurated to the presidency, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator...
...Most of the rest of us can be proud of how this election has concluded...
...We saw how passionately he campaigned for her in 2008...
...Yet on September 21, while addressing an audience filled with coal miners in Virginia, he fibbed: “...I am a hard-coal miner—anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania...
...Well, we shall see...
...Now the election is over, and they are in withdrawal...
...Amazing as it sounds, all the recent pratfalls were committed by the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee in but one month...
...Biden, made all the worse when it was revealed that he had faked his academic record and been accused of plagiarism in law school...
...I have in mind Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware or Scranton, Pennsylvania, or wherever he now claims to hail from...
...Yet a return of the Clintons was never to be...
...He is actually, according to my sources, quite angry...
...In the closing days of this campaign, when the former president campaigned for Senator Obama, we saw why he is so dreadful in campaigning for others...
...I can tell you where they are...
...Aside from the political junkies, there is another tiny coterie of gloomy souls this post-election, the Clintonistas...
...Yet her opponent, long known as an airhead, a braggart, and even a plagiarist, is now passed off as a statesman...
...Yet most of the rest of us have reason to be relieved and frankly a bit proud of our country...
...On September 22 he bragged to a Baltimore audience that “If you want to know where al Qaeda lives, you want to know where bin Laden is, come back to Afghanistan with me...
...Well, take a glance at Senator Biden’s performance over a single month...
...She might not win first prize on Jeopardy!, but then no Jeopardy...
...The crisis began with those subprime mortgages from Fannie and Freddie and was exacerbated by cheap money and recklessly low interest rates from the Department of the Treasury and from the Fed...
Vol. 41 • January 2009 • No. 10
