Coulter is cool..

[imported_Spunky]

It's Just About Money

July 25, 2002

LIBERAL'S COMPREHENSION of corporate scandals is like the Woody Allen joke about what he knew about "War and Peace" after taking a speed-reading course and reading it in 20 minutes: "It involves Russia."

George Bush and Dick Cheney's involvement in corporate corruption consists primarily of the media's capacity to mention their names in the same sentence as "corporate corruption" 1 million times a day. Liberals think their capacity to say someone's name in an accusatory tone of voice is sufficient to impute criminality to Republicans. Since Republicans are intrinsically evil, merely mentioning their names suffices to make any point liberals want to make. Bush and Cheney have bought and sold stock. The swine!

Whenever the media start intoning darkly about "perceptions," "the full details," "unanswered questions," and – most pathetic – "the shadow of Enron" – you should smell a big, fat commie rat (Gen. Buck Turgidson, "Dr. Strangelove").


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"The good part of being a Democrat is that you can commit crimes, sell out your base, bomb foreigners, and rape women, and the Democratic faithful will still think you're the greatest."
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In fact, there are no "unanswered questions" about Bush and Cheney. There are only insipid insinuations.

The facts are: Bush sold his stock in Harken to purchase the Texas Rangers. The price of the stock later went down. (And then it went up to more than what he sold it for.) Amid hectoring from liberals that he do so, Cheney sold his interest in Halliburton before becoming vice president to eliminate the possibility of a conflict of interest. Later, the price of that stock went down – in large part due to trial lawyers filing asbestos suits against Halliburton.

It's not illegal to own or sell stock. It's illegal to sell stock based on insider information.

Thus, the Democrats' theory must be that Bush's purchase of the Texas Rangers and Cheney's ascension to the vice presidency were wily scams to conceal their real reason for selling assets: insider information! Of this, there is no evidence. Literally no evidence, in contradistinction to when liberals say there is "no evidence," meaning there hasn't been a conviction in a court of law, but there are boatloads of evidence.

The imputation of criminality to Bush and Cheney is so ludicrous that even in the girly-girly, eye-poking attacks on the New York Times op-ed page it has been roundly admitted that there is no question of "any criminality" (Frank Rich) and that "Mr. Bush broke no laws" (Nicholas Kristof). Rep. Barney Frank, the only honest Democrat, has repeatedly said that it is "not a case of Dick Cheney violating the law."

Thus, the media explain their baseless sneering about the president and vice president as attempts to "add to our knowledge of the ethics, policies and personnel of a secretive administration," as Rich put it.

It's a little late for liberals to pretend they care about ethics in the White House or anyplace else. These are the people who vehemently – angrily – defended a president who perjured himself, hid evidence, suborned perjury, was held in contempt by a federal court, was disbarred by the Supreme Court, lied to his party, his staff, his wife and the nation. The ethics of that president included having staff perform oral sex on him in the Oval Office as he chatted on the phone with a congressman about sending American troops into battle.

The secular saints of liberalism indignantly defended all this on the grounds that it's fine to lie and commit crimes if it's "just about sex." Evidently some corporate officials took that lesson to heart and concluded that it's also fine to commit crimes if it's "just about money."

Just as Ronald Reagan gave American culture a renewed patriotism and self-confidence that outlasted his presidency, Clinton has bequeathed America a culture of criminality and rationalization by the powerful.

But still somehow, Republicans are said to be more vulnerable whenever a businessman becomes a crook on the basis of their general support of capitalism. But if criminality and not capitalism is to blame, then Democrats are to blame for their general support of crooks.

As part of the left's long-standing fanatical defense of their favorite criminal, Bill Clinton, it will be screeched that conservatives want to blame everything on Clinton, including the wacky idea that a direct assault on honor and honesty led some people to behave dishonorably and dishonestly.

Not everything. But some of us called this ball and this pocket years ago:

"If Congress doesn't have the will to throw him out, Clinton will have set a new standard for the entire country. The new standard will be a total absence of standards. ... If you get caught and don't have a good enough legal team to escape, you might have to pay a fine or go to prison. But there's no shame in it. The country doesn't really condemn this. We adore a lovable rogue. ... (I)t is fine to lie and cheat and manipulate because honor is just a word, just hot air and the country doesn't believe in it." ("High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton," 1998.)

It took a bear market to inexorably repeal the Clintonian national motto of "Just Do It!"

[Lovie]

I AGREE! [b]COULTER IS COOL[b]

[imported_Spunky]

Good to see you again

[Lovie]

Hi Spunky? (a clue might help)
I gather you have posted under a diferrent name at some time somewhere. I agree with you on your taste in writers. I saw her in an interview on FOX News I liked the way she expressed what I feel.
LL

[imported_Spunky]

I was formerly known as "Legs" on the board. Tis no secret at all, I announced who I was to the board when I came back as Spunky. I havent seen you post in a while.
I agree, Coulter is intelligent, well informed, full of common sense, and gutsy to boot. Gotta love her!

[Lovie]

Hi there!

I must admit I just figured it out by myself after reading another post on here. Thanks, though for answering. You are right I have not posted on these boards for a good while. I look in on russia now and then but have found it to be less than interesting lately. Your Coulter post caught my eye.

I miss Ronbo and his good conservative posts. I kept popping in thinking he might show up again. Where is Dix? Is he on the racing circuit?

LL

[imported_Spunky]

Hi Lenore. I miss Ronbo's posts as well. He got banned at one time (which seems to happen to us conservatives a lot) and came back. I dont know what happened after that. Ronbo's posts were always intelligent and full of wit.
Do you follow Rush? I listen to him every day. My favorite fill in for him is Walter Williams. What do you think about them?

[Lovie]

I really liked the Walter post on school vouchers. In fact I copied it and pasted it on another local board I occassionally post on. Yes I like Rush, but have not listened to him in a while. There are so many informative things on the internet that the big three don't care for us to know, that I find my time is so occupied there are not enough hours in each day!!

LL

[Observer58]

Originally posted by LovelyLenore
Hi there!

I must admit I just figured it out by myself after reading another post on here. Thanks, though for answering. You are right I have not posted on these boards for a good while. I look in on russia now and then but have found it to be less than interesting lately. Your Coulter post caught my eye.

I miss Ronbo and his good conservative posts. I kept popping in thinking he might show up again. Where is Dix? Is he on the racing circuit?

LL

"I look in on russia now and then but have found it to be less than interesting lately."

Greetings LL,
Long time no hear. Good to see and hear from you again.

There has been a change of guard over there regarding the Russia.Com forum. Sadly it seems that the new "administration" there has allowed for new standards to be set. It seems that the light sexual joking and teasings have descended to pornography. While not full blown pornography (no pun intended) there have been cartoon jokes depicting various body parts. And Texas posted there regarding the porn postings and how the board in general has sunk to new lows. I guess when new LEADERS take over, new rules and guidelines are established and in some cases, degradation follows. All one has to do is go there and scan through the boards and you will see who is truly in the middle of it.
Texas also mentioned the fighting and backstabbing that is going on there. One needs to read all the stuff there to make their own assessment of the situation. However, some postings have been either edited or totaly deleted so as not to show the true posting in their original text and have taken away the true meaning of the replies to those postings.

Where is Justo and how is he doing these days? He didn't get into his car and drive off somewhere did he?

You mentioned Ronbo. He is a character that has a great sense of humor and wit. I miss his postings also.
Hope to see you here more often.


have a great one,
John

[oldreb2]

Maybe someone could find Ronbo and Dix and we could have an old time reunion and get a conservative moderator. I guess we would have to talk about Switzerland every now and then.

old reb

[imported_Spunky]

Originally posted by oldreb2
Maybe someone could find Ronbo and Dix and we could have an old time reunion and get a conservative moderator. I guess we would have to talk about Switzerland every now and then.

old reb

Good idea...I have a feeling that they arent too far away... What say you, Reb?

[Lovie]

...what can we say about it? Looking at those cool looking mountains; it sure looks a lot cooler than here in SE Texas where we are flirting with 100 degree temps.

Yes I found a lot of the "silly/sexual" posts on the Russia board a little strange for my taste. I like mentally stimulating threads, some of those seemed more immature than sexy to me. I don't expect that type subject matter on an international message board. Oh well what I expect is of no importance. We are free to pick and choose where we wish to post our thoughts and ideas, and which we want to read.

LL

[imported_Spunky]

Yes. I seem to find trouble lately logging into another board. (giggles).... We have fun in here. I hope you stay around in this one.