tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post5340436904926206017..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: A HISTORY LESSON FOR TIMOTHY EGANSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-13091949489541059442015-07-27T17:17:47.037-04:002015-07-27T17:17:47.037-04:00Like petrilli said about Egan's ahistorical in...Like petrilli said about Egan's ahistorical inclusion of RR with Lincoln & Ike, and like Yastreblyansky said about Spiro Ted Agnew deserving dishonorable mention. We could of course keep going back... Joe McCarthy, the younger Nixon, John Bricker (Dewey's running mate in '48), et cetera. But the familiarly modern version of that hardy perennial, i.e., the GOP's gutter-level, ad hominem attack rhetoric with scant (to be generous) regard for facts, is definitely and directly traceable to the late Ronald.CHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15409212720220729669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-80078181207780369602015-07-26T21:40:10.956-04:002015-07-26T21:40:10.956-04:00From my non-google aided memory of the time I reca...From my non-google aided memory of the time I recall the Reagan era offering support and succor to a species of shocking vicious slander I had certainly never seen before. Today's GOP stands on the slimy shoulders of pioneering giants of filth from those days such as Richard Viguerie, Newt Gingrich (often forgotten what a mean craven bastard he was back in the 80s), The execrable freshman congressman John LeBoutillier and the most rancid of them all, Terry Dolan of NPAC who at least died a miserable, painful, ironic death, which he richly deserved.petrillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889489779105405703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-57489701678987726742015-07-26T21:00:21.992-04:002015-07-26T21:00:21.992-04:00I read that column this morning and stopped at the...I read that column this morning and stopped at the same point. I felt almost a little punked to be honest. Like the guy pulled me in and then, "Reagan?" I thought "hey, I see what you just did there." <br /><br />These pundits is sneaky, Steve.petrillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889489779105405703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-25086777916520328262015-07-26T18:41:44.086-04:002015-07-26T18:41:44.086-04:00Trump Trump Trump. Trump Trump Trump.
How much is...Trump Trump Trump. Trump Trump Trump.<br /><br />How much is he paying you for this?Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-14712177433975844692015-07-26T17:58:13.592-04:002015-07-26T17:58:13.592-04:00No votes for Bill Safire's sock puppet Spiro T...No votes for Bill Safire's sock puppet <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" rel="nofollow">Spiro T. Agnew?</a><br /><br /><i>This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English—it is a problem for the Department of Justice…. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.</i>Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-8996613029764754972015-07-26T15:15:43.539-04:002015-07-26T15:15:43.539-04:00The symptoms are obvious to everyone except the ob...The symptoms are obvious to everyone except the oblivious DC MSM Villagers.<br /><br />They look at today's GOP, and still see Ike.<br />The rest of us look at it, and go YIKES!!!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-53340681831963127662015-07-26T14:09:41.399-04:002015-07-26T14:09:41.399-04:00Right -- fixed now.Right -- fixed now.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-15068265379098683272015-07-26T13:51:23.939-04:002015-07-26T13:51:23.939-04:00That would be George H. W. Bush, who claimed his d...That would be George H. W. Bush, who claimed his dog knew more about foreign policy.Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03681336164718681936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-32067586497211350402015-07-26T13:48:33.443-04:002015-07-26T13:48:33.443-04:00"Egan invokes Joe Wilson shout of "You l..."Egan invokes Joe Wilson shout of "You lie!" during President Obama's September 2009 address to Congress,"<br />The EXACT MOMENT that any pretense of civility regarding MY President went out the door, and has never looked back. It has been downhill since then; if the President<br />is Obama, you can SAY anything, no matter how low!<br /><br /> Wasn't That speech about the ACA?oc democrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512390168078458602noreply@blogger.com