Wednesday, April 23, 2008

P.J. O'Rourke

"Some say John McCain's character was formed in a North Vietnamese prison. I say those people should take a gander at what John chose to do--voluntarily. Being a carrier pilot requires aptitude, intelligence, skill, knowledge, discernment, and courage of a kind rarely found anywhere but in a poem of Homer's or a half gallon of Dewar's. I look from John McCain to what the opposition has to offer. There's Ms. Smarty-Pantsuit, the Bosnia-Under-Sniper-Fire poster gal, former prominent Washington hostess, and now the JV senator from the state that brought you Eliot Spitzer and Bear Stearns. And there's the happy-talk boy wonder, the plaster Balthazar in the Cook County political crèche, whose policy pronouncements sound like a walk through Greenwich Village in 1968: "Change, man? Got any spare change? Change?"

Some people say John McCain isn't conservative enough. But there's more to conservatism than low taxes, Jesus, and waterboarding at Gitmo. Conservatism is also a matter of honor, duty, valor, patriotism, self-discipline, responsibility, good order, respect for our national institutions, reverence for the traditions of civilization, and adherence to the political honesty upon which all principles of democracy are based. Given what screw-ups we humans are in these respects, conservatism is also a matter of sense of humor. Heard any good quips lately from Hillary or Barack?"

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4 comments:

Adam said...

I do believe it was mc that said it first, if he wins it'll be an Obama-nation!

pjceltic said...

Matt - to quite your thunder, I first heard the Obama-nation from a caller on Howard Stern. His other joke involved the something about the shutters on the white house being painted purple. McCain is the lesser of three evils - though they all promise to continue to spend us deeper into poverty. Hillary is saying she will take away tax breaks to corporations that move jobs over seas. Was it not her husband that gave China most favored status.

mc said...

It's an obvious portmanteau and McCaine is the only one to vote for, hold nose and fill in the optical bubble.

Tar and feathers.

Obama was stumped cold by the suggestion that lowering taxes stimulates commerce and increases revenue. Sheesh.

pjceltic said...

Matt - to quite your thunder, I first heard the Obama-nation from a caller on Howard Stern. His other joke involved the something about the shutters on the white house being painted purple. McCain is the lesser of three evils - though they all promise to continue to spend us deeper into poverty. Hillary is saying she will take away tax breaks to corporations that move jobs over seas. Was it not her husband that gave China most favored status.