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Awesome post from the Derb today:
Oh, stop whining. So what if the likely GOP nominee believes in restraints on free speech, higher taxation, bigger government, open borders, and 100-year U.S. armies of occupation everywhere from Albania to Zimbabwe? Romney believes in those things too — at least, he does when he's in a room full of people that want him to.
You already have a genuinely conservative candidate on offer. He's just not slick enough for you. What, he has positions you don't agree with? More than the other guys? Actually, I have heard very little complaining about Paul's positions. What I have mostly heard is (a) He's funny looking, (b) He can't win, and (c) He has a lot of icky supporters.
The answer to (a) is to put aside the New York Times "Style" section for five minutes and think. The answer to (b) is, that if conservatism is going to lose big in 2008 anyway (newsflash: it is), it should at least make a stand, to inspire future generations. The answer to (c) is, get in there and swell the ranks of non-icky Paul supporters — there are plenty of us — to drown out the nutsos.
While you guys are crying into your light-blended crème frappuccinos, I'll be making a campaign donation to help Ron & Carol celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary Friday.
Anti-McCainiacs are all wet, even though I too dislike McCain. The Republican Party and talk radio has no credibility at all in complaining about McCain since in most cases these same people are the most committed supporters of George W. Bush. McCain wouldn't be the presumptive nominee if they hadn't made Iraq the litmus test for who's a true conservative. They made a mistake by placing all of their anti-McCain hopes and dreams into Romney. Even the people who stood behind him during his concession speech last night looked bored and dejected as their man stood there and aimlessly mentioned all of the talking points he thought his audience wanted to hear. Baghdad Hugh's cheerleading notwithstanding, Mitt is done.
I've said from the beginning that 2008 was going to be a Democratic blowout of 1964 proportions. It definitely will be if this fall's contest is Barry vs. Bob Dole Part Deux. Pretty much the Republicans' only hope for an undeserved victory in November is if the Dems are foolish enough to nominate Lady Macbeth. It's funny, but the candidate the Republicans and conservatives despise most, John McCain, does the best in match-ups against Hillary. Michael Medved, who never saw a principle he wasn't willing to throw overboard for the party, has long pointed this out. If all you care about is Republican victory, McCain's the guy, provided Hillary's his opponent. If you just can't vote for McCain because he's on the wrong side of so many conservative principles, I ask you - where have you been for the past seven years?
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So... Manos. The hands of fate.
"Manos" is Spanish for hands, so the movie is properly titled "Hands: The Hands of Fate."
DID YOU KNOW:
John Reynolds, who played the charming Torgo, was "a lot of fun" on the set because he was "probably high all the time." Unfortunately, he committed suicide shortly after the film was released.
The female half of the "make-out couple" had a broken leg which is why she never got out of the car. Not that the make-out couple had anything to do with the plot anyway.
Director and star Harold "Hal" P. Warren didn't have the lighting to shoot at night. That's why the cops "investigate" by only taking a few steps away from their car before calling off their thorough investigation.
Hal Warren tried to make the premiere of Manos in El Paso, Texas, into a major media event. He and the cast were laughed out of the theater. Manos miraculously made it onto a few west Texas drive-in movie screens before it was locked away and forgotten until the writers of MST3K discovered it thirty years later. The rest is history. Manos is considered the worst, and therefore the greatest, episode of MST3K of all time.
Little Debbie is all grown up and talks about growing up Manos.
The Hand that time forgot.
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