Romney and Edwards are the pretty boys of this campaign. Both are rich, have great hair, and have somewhat limited experience in high elected office. Both are also trailing in the polls for their party's nomination.

I believe it's worth mentioning that the three people polling better than Romney for the GOP nomination - Rudy, Fred Thompson, and (shockingly) McCain, are all bald or balding. And when was the last time we elected a bald President? Eisenhower?

Wait - does LBJ count?

"Romney and Edwards are the pretty boys of this campaign."

Any particular reason why you're interested in "pretty boys"...?

I like pretty people (male or female) much better than ugly people.

My wife says I'm a "lookist," and she's right; I am much more attracted to good-looking people.

I used to think Romney was just bland, standard-issue political hypocrite. But lately his rhetoric has turned nasty and offensive [always accompanied by that million-dollar smile, eew]. He is the scariest and most despicable of a very scary and despicable lot of war-mongering creeps.

Clavos, are you a handsome bastard or an ugly bastard? :-)

My wife says I'm just a bastard, but she's always been too kind.

Any particular reason why you're interested in "pretty boys"...?

Well, yes. After all, I'm a flaming homosexual. Just don't tell my girlfriend, or any of my former girlfriends, okay? Thanks. I know you'll do the classy thing, REMF. As always.

No matter how anybody, left or right, dem, or pub, wants to spin it, Pakistan is not our friend. They are good at talking out both sides of their collective mouth, however.

I'm thinking that on that basis, Clavos won't be voting for Uncle Rudy or Uncle Fred...

Ray wins the prize: Pakistan is NOT our friend, but a phony ally.

Heloise

Indeed he is, REMF.

And there is a dumb news story today about Mitt getting a question concerning his sons' [lack of] military service while Dad sounds the militarist drumbeat everywhere, and Dad's replying that the boys are serving their country, by working to get him elected [groan]. Even his snarky way of handling this nonissue [it's a volunteer army, no reason his sons have to excuse their nonservice] is offensive and ridiculous.

Of course he's snarky! He's an effing republican!!

And if he's going to be a warmonger, his kids should be in the military and on the front lines, volunteer army or no.

Fuckin' republican chickenhawk.

Vote Ron Paul and NOBODY will ever have to serve again!

#12: Hmmm...

Anyone noticed that no matter what we happen to be talking about here on BC, certain commenters will always change the subject to their pet obsession?

For example:

MCH aka REMF: The invalidity of anyone's opinion who has not "served", particularly but not exclusively conservative chickenhawks.
moonraven: The stupidity of Dave Nalle and Clavos, and how everything they say and do is an attempt to compensate for inadequate penis size.
Arch Conservative: The godhead of Mitt Romney, and how he will sweep the 2008 election over any !@#$%%*&^%ing liberal piece of $^%@#$%@ moonbat one cares to ^%$&*#ing name.
Dave: The rationale for every horrendous and/or outrageous act perpetrated by the Bush administration.
STM: How any given country would benefit from having a little Union Jack in the corner of its flag.

;-)

I never shoulda let her measure it...

Doc,

Write some articles.

Please??

Oh, all right, Clavos, I'll drop Eric a line. I had been under the impression that one needed to submit some example articles to him for review first, but that's just if you don't have your own blog.

I do have a blog, but I don't link to it yet because it's still in its infancy - "under construction", as the expression goes.

So I'll write him and see what I need to do.

I'd say "watch this space", but I suspect MR would immediately turn that into some kind of sarcastic comment...

Doc,

They let me write.

Don't worry!

"the final frontier...."

or i will....

heh

Excelsior?

blast you Clavos..ya messed up my Jest...!

"watch this space"

then...

"the final frontier...!"

bah...

Excelsior?

No wonder I couldn't figure it out!

Sorry, gonzo.

Some of us are just quicker on the draw...

Phasers on stun, pardner...

the crystals cannae handle the strain!!

but i digress...

as long as i ain't wearing the red shirt...go for it, Doc

Excelsior?

Great YouTube link, gonzo. Thanks! :-)

DD: "So I'll write him and see what I need to do."

Do you think you could stick to the Queen's English, though, when you do?

You've been in heathen territory, what, 18 months and you're already saying: "I'll write him".

Fair dinkum DD - remember your prepositions.

And don't fall into that other hideous and grating American grammatical trap regarding use of the word couple.

It's not "a couple beers", but "a couple of beers".

And watch out for, "I could care less". It doesn't make sense. Proper usage is, "I couldn't care less".

Just a couple of tips, mate, from Down Under regarding your current circumstances.

If you need any other help, write me.

RJ - yer welcome.... heh

mebbe you Aussies need a translator ...?

"my hovercraft is full of eels" - priceless

Excelsior?

Lol! Classic. Gotta love Monty Python Gonz.

Try googling Doug and Dinsdale Piranha ... a skit based on the criminal Kray brothers from the east end of London.

It's on You Tube. A hoot.

LOL... the infamous Piranha brothers. Their intimidatory weapons of choice were, as I recall, not guns, coshes and assorted pieces of industrial machinery but irony, sarcasm and litotes.

Yes, and no Cartesian dualism ... just a good old nailing of people's heads to the floor

But they were really nice about it all the same... loved their mother... no-one would say a word against them.

"litotes"

Heh.

Good word, that.

Haven't seen it in print since my college lit courses.

Damn!!

Meant to say:

"Not a bad word, that."

[mumbles] Need more coffee....

Lol. Not averse to a litote, then?

Clavos:

Admit it. You had to look up "litotes" on Wikipedia before you posted that comment...

"MCH aka REMF: The invalidity of anyone's opinion who has not "served", particularly but not exclusively conservative chickenhawks.
moonraven: The stupidity of Dave Nalle and Clavos, and how everything they say and do is an attempt to compensate for inadequate penis size.
Arch Conservative: The godhead of Mitt Romney, and how he will sweep the 2008 election over any !@#$%%*&^%ing liberal piece of $^%@#$%@ moonbat one cares to ^%$&*#ing name.
Dave: The rationale for every horrendous and/or outrageous act perpetrated by the Bush administration.
STM: How any given country would benefit from having a little Union Jack in the corner of its flag."

You forgot one, Dr.:
RJ: Calling anyone opposed to the occupation/invasion of Iraq a "commie" or a "pinko."

That why you call him Tailgunner Joe?

C'mon, Doc.

My degree is in English lit with a minor in writing.

You Poms don't have 'arf an attitude about Yanks' command of the Mother Tongue.

I had a Brit director in a play at the Ft. Lauderdale Little Theater who once said to me, in response to my comment that I spoke English,

"No, my young friend, you don't speak English; you speak Ameddican."

His name wasn't Noel Coward, was it?

No, but he was a fan!

And besides, if I were going to look it up, it would be here.

"That why you call him Tailgunner Joe?"

LOL. Yeah, there is a similarity between the two, the difference being that McCarthy actually served. Although he did lie about the tailgunner part.
(MCH)

I realize that comments are where the fun is, but did anyone else notice that the actual article makes no sense at all?

Duke,

Why do you think we got off on all these sidetracks?

MCH and Joe McCarthy - brothers from two different mothers.

RJ: "Well, yes. After all, I'm a flaming homosexual."

You're not a pommy RJ, are you?

Uh, Oh.

Now you're gonna catch hell from the Doc, mate...

5...4...3...2...

I'm going to get a swifty up the bum

Kick, that is :)

well. this was an etertaining bunch of comments. i have to pee.

someone said something like "yeah, the comments are fun, but the article makes no sense," and i have to agree...

"romney" has six letters?

please... what does that mean? so does.. um... "hafler," and that don't mean shit. "volver." six letters. letter. six letters. bitches. six. shakin google bussom. yeah. six. six. six. whatev. ersssss.

Re, comments #48-52:

(Thank you, Clav...)

And I thought I'd had too much to drink this evening.

zing: Close the fridge door. Screw the cap back on the vodka. Or whatever it is you're indulging in... it's time to exdulge.

Stan: Come on. Not all Poms are gay. How d'you think we make more Poms?...
...Actually, now I think about it... 60 million of us and not a single one who's any good at sports. Yup. Must all be gay...

Had a couple of quiet ones have we doc??

[Personal attack deleted]

So I'm the godhead of Mitt Romney huh? Nothing wrong with that. Since I have repeatedly stated why Romney is my man I will go through the other candidates and say why I would never vote for them and why I believe they will not be our next president. Fair enough?

Rudy G: He's basically a RINO. He's much too socially liberal for me to ever consider voting for him. It is also for this reason that I think he will not win the GOP nomination. A lot of people are saying that he's more electable in the general election than Romney but I don't think he's pallettable enough for the GOP base what with his support for abortion, his marital problems and his being from New York City.

John Mccain: Let's face it. He comes off as old and kooky. Plus he thinks applying the geneva convention to terrorists would somehow ensure that they behave civilly toward us. He's weak on the illegal immigration issue, as are virtually all American politicians on both sides, only he's more vocal about it. Where most politicians ignore the issue completely or do a semantic two step around it, Mccain, along with his good pal Ted Kennedy have basically came out and said "hey illegals screwing you over is fine with me." It is for these reasons that I wouldn't vote for him and also why he will never win.

John Edwards He's been very hard at work peddling his leftist class warfare propaganda. It seems like Johnny boy would have us believe that we are all screwed and completely incapable of upward economic mobility without the federal gvernment coming to the rescue. "Hey Johnny boy.....life is hard for most people and have you ever stopped to consider that the reasons some people succeed and others don't is because they put more effort in and that neither you nor anyone else from the federal government can ever deliver on the idealistic utopian promises for every American that you're currently offering?"

Then there's the whole I'd rather be president than spend time with my wife who's suffering from cancer issue.

Ultimately I think the reason Edwarrds will not get elected is because he has become to beholden to the far left groups like the daily kos and while Americans on both sides of the spectrum can appreciate wanting to help those less fortunate and making things more condusive for the average American to succeed, his rhetoric is way over the top and will be recognized as such.

Barack Obama: I'm glad of all of the he's a uniter who represent everyone bullshit has died down. Obama is the least exeperienced of all the major candidates, has the least amount of accomplishments to offer as evidence as to why we should vote for him, and is the most unknown quantity. if one were to examine his brief voting record, as I have done, one would see that he's pretty much a party line run of the mill liberal adn that's why I would never vote for him.

I believe he will not get elected because he is a half white half black man who is perceieved to be black and I don't see this nation electing someone who is black or at least perceived to be in the near future. I also don't think he's in the same league in the Clinton's when it comes to playing political hardball.

And finally we have Hillary:

Let's be honest..... ALL politicians pander. Even my man Mitt has done it. They all do it because they have to if they ever want to have any hope of actually winning an election. We have to understand this and sort through all of the bullshit and each of us come up with our own assessment of each candidate as far as their charachter, what they really believe and what they would actually do or be capable of doing. However it is my belief that Hillary is head and shoulders above the rest when to comes to pandering. I do not believe she has a sincere bone in her body and that she may at some level actually care about this nation and the people that live in it but that those concerns will never be entertained in her mind until all of the concerns for her personal quest for power and recognition have been met.

She will say or do anything to get a vote. I'm sure we have all seen the clips of her affecting a butchered fake southern accent when she was speaking to black voters in a southern church. That would be like Sam Brownback or Mike Huckabee going to a campaign event in New York city and adopting a horrible Brooklyn accent and the last time I checked that hasn't happened yet.

In fact if one carefully examines all of Hillary's public statements we can see that the only thing that she truly has been consistent on is her desire for more and more power.

I wouldn't vote for her becasue I think she would reveal her true colors if elected and govern from the far left. When I hear people saying that everything she has done for the past 6 years or so is proof that she is a moderate I have to laugh. Hillary, although evil, is not stupid. If she learned nothing from watching her husband's political career, she learned that moderates have the greatest chance of winning elections and she has following this golden rule to a tee. I believe she would basically utter a big "too late now motherfukcers, you're stuck with me" as soon as she took office and then start using her power to make us more and more socialistic with each passing day and that is completely contrary to every one of my beliefs.

I don't think she will win because there is such a massive mistrust of her and a desire to put an end to both the Clinton and Bush influence on American politics. The folks on the right hate her husband and the folks on the left hate Bush. I think most Americans want a new start. I believe there are many that believe she is truly far left as I do and are also disgusted by the idea of her being president.

Arch, I think the good doctor is sleeping off a hangover. I have the perfect cure for that: a cold cup of pork fat with a hair in it :-/

#53: Yeuch! Just thinking about that cured me.

#52: So let me understand your way of thinking, Arch. By your own admission, nothing Hillary has done over the last six years, whether it be her voting record, her publicly-expressed opinions or the causes she espouses, suggests that she is anything other than a moderate Democrat.

So on what grounds, other than your own hatred, should we believe that she is far-left?