There’s probably something I’m missing here — some hidden gibe — but I think state GOP Chairman Katon Dawson is actually, sincerely congratulating his opposite number in this release:
Dawson congratulates South
Carolina Democrats for securing debate
South Carolina GOP Chairman emphasizes state’s
importance in choosing next presidentCOLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Republican
Party Chairman Katon Dawson today released the following statement on the South
Carolina Democrat Party’s 2008 presidential primary debate:“I would like to congratulate our friends at the South
Carolina Democrat Party, including Chairman Joe Erwin, and South Carolina State
University for securing a presidential debate. This shows how important South
Carolina’s role will be in choosing the next president. Here at the South
Carolina Republican Party, we are honored to host what should be the first
Republican presidential primary debate in the Nation. Fox News will air the
South Carolina Republican presidential primary debate live on May 15,
2007.”
It so, that’s wonderful. If it isn’t … well, point out what I’m missing. I won’t be shocked, but I’ll be disappointed.
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May 15th, 07. Time to get tickets to this from Fox News. Hopefully Britt Hume is the moderator, nothing but the best there. Although Molly Henneburg and Margaret McCallum and Ms. Banderas would suffice for me as substitutes.
Brit Hume’s first smirky question:
“If you’re elected, when will you surrender to the terrorists?”
Brad – check out The Shot and The Chaser today. We are learning to use YouTube like you. We posted ‘first day on the job’ interviews with Bakari Sellers, Phillip Lowe, Kris Crawford, and Keith Kelly.
Let us know what you think.
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That’s cool. Good enterprise. Ain’t it weird how people immediately criticize your production values, rather than appreciating the fact that they’re getting info they wouldn’t get at all otherwise?
My links badly need updating. When I get around to that, I’ll have to put y’all over on my rail.
A colleague just pointed out the snub I had missed, which is that Katon said “South Carolina Democrat Party” instead of Democratic. Well, true, that’s not good, but I doubt it was intentional. Republicans have slapped that ungrammatical misnomer on their opposition for so long that they no longer know what the correct name is.
You have to consider the source, and make allowances. If a GI in December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, had said “You know, ya gotta hand it to them krauts — they still got some fight in ’em,” he would still have meant it as a compliment.
Not that the competition between political parties amounts to the moral equivalent of war or anything, but you get what I mean about language and its uses…
Brad, quit being such an appologist for the GOP. How do you know the snub wasn’t intentional? Beside, because representatives of the GOP have long used the insulting “Democrat Party” that in and of itself is significant. How dare you lecture us on the left about civil behavior then just let this slide. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Brad – thanks for the compliments. And sorry to be the guy who comments off topic.
Brad, here’s another good sign:
”
Pelosi bans smoking for House members near floor
WASHINGTON (AP) — Smokers may be one minority in Congress with even fewer rights than newly demoted Republicans. Now they’re losing one of their last, cherished prerogatives — a smoke break in the ornate Speaker’s Lobby just off the House floor.
”
Good things are already coming from Democratic control of congress. In the words of Howard Dean: YEEEEEEEEHAH!!!!
Bud, the tension mounts, will Harry Reid now ban smoking by Senators? Or, are these lords of our society more priveledged? Wait, Obama is a chain smoker. It won’t happen will it? Smoke ’em if you got ’em is the word.
Dave, Obama may be a smoker. I don’t know or care. But, since you seem to think that this habit is of some great import, I wonder why I’ve never seen him on television smoking.
I thought that the definition of “chain smoker” was that they smoked continuously.
Why don’t you explain exactly why you find Obama’s smoking habit of such great interest.
Hurl – There are only two greater sins in the Democrat party than smoking. First is supporting life, second is listening to terrorist phone calls. All over the USA the Democrat do-gooders are fighting smoking in public and private buildings, in some locales the entire county, and you think these people won’t deplore Obama’s smoking? The President is the national role model in many respects, so there you have it. Remember too, these are the people who de-fagged FDR’s statue. They will want to de-fag Obama while he’s alive.
Dave, you certainly don’t support life. Among other things you:
1. Stated everyone we’ve killed in Iraq is an enemy combatant.
2. Applauded the hanging of Sadam.
3. Make exceptions to the ban on abortion for rape and incest.
Since you clearly fit the bill for someone who does not support life. This must make you at least a half Democrat.
Dave, I find your mischaracterizations of the Democratic Party endlessly amusing. They really show your wrongheadedness, gullibility and shallowness.
Keep it up.
Oh, btw, Dave, how many Dem Party meetings have you attended– or do you derive your ridiculous impressions entirely from wingnut sources like Rush, Free Republic and Ann Coulter?
Hurl – there are good decent patriotic Democrats. Their biggest problem is that the left wing socialist radicals dominate the party leadership. Most Democrats in SC are embarrassed to have their party leadership come to SC to help them campaign. San Francisco values Nancy Pelosi and Dirty Harry Reid, from the state with legal prostitution and their biggest industry of gambling, is also not welcome. I could go on but I don’t need to attend Dem meetings to know that their leadership is a freak show.
Bud – Where there’s Bud there’s Life.
Rush is that you?
Another Dave motto: “Ignorance is strength. Don’t confuse me with facts.”
Yawn. Dave, you really should get your head out of the cesspool that is the Free Republic, some time.
Hurl – you can attack me all you want but I see you don’t disagree with my “facts” about Dem leadership. And I haven’t even had to mention Howard Dean yet. On the Laurin blog, she has a good story about the Dems having trouble finding someone to be the state Democrat party leader. So even at the state level, there is trouble in paradise.
Dave, a fundamental flaw in your thought processes is that you think voters in SC are representative of the entire U.S. In fact, they are outliers.
National Dem leaders would do well to let the radical, reactionary-rightwing Rethuglicans shrink to a regional party representing neo-confederates.
Even you put your spin “facts” in quotation marks. I guess you think that increasing the minimum wage or reducing the cost of college loans are “San Francisco values.” I’m surprised that you don’t seem to like Nevada’s libertarian, free-enterprise culture– just another case of you talking-the-talk but not walking-the-walk.
I’m not surprised if the Dems don’t have another party chief lined up immediately upon the resignation of Erwin. It’s a tough job.
Essentially the SC Dem Party will be transforming for probably a decade. Your Rethuglicans have coopted the old white, racist power structure. At some point the SC Dems will shed their old leaders and latch onto the a wave of populism– probably becoming Hispanic-friendly in the process.
In the meantime, SC will continue its own quirky course, maybe becoming even more Rethuglican, just as it fought civil rights for 100+ years after the Civil War. Never let it be said that SC looks beyond the last century.
I’m constantly reminded of Gov. Petigru’s description of SC: “Too small to be a Republic and too large to be an Asylum.”
Dave, I don’t read Laurinblog but a glance at her latest post on replacing Erwin shows a field of at least ten potential candidates.
Some of your posts remind me of what Mary McCarthy said about Lillian Hellman: “Every word she writes is a lie including ‘a’ and ‘the.”
Hurl, Thanks for reminding me that it was the Democrats in SC who repressed the black population here. Hollings put the flag over the statehouse when he was governor. Just as Lincoln freed the slaves, the Republican party has always been the leader in equality of the races.
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