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2004-10-19 Home Front: Politix

Mark Steyn - Limey A**holes deliver Ohio to Bush

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Posted by mojo 2004-10-19 13:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Steyn rocks, as per usual, lol!

Posted by .com 2004-10-19 1:58:10 PM|| 2004-10-19 1:58:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 ..My friends/family back home say that there is very quiet resentment - especially among the blue collar ethnic neghborhoods of Cleveland - towards Al-Guardian's jihad.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-10-19 2:10:38 PM|| 2004-10-19 2:10:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 In Cleveland? Now that's good news - as it's Dhimmidick country. Thx, MK!

Posted by .com 2004-10-19 2:14:44 PM|| 2004-10-19 2:14:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Prof. Dawkins doesn't get it.
In this country, Tony Martin wouldn't be charged with a crime. And it would be a long time before he was charged for a drink.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2004-10-19 2:37:44 PM|| 2004-10-19 2:37:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Spot on, Richard!

I'd sure as hell buy him one or several.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-19 2:57:49 PM|| 2004-10-19 2:57:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Since I lived in the UK when Martin did his deed I can attest to the British press, especially the left wing sector, getting their knickers tied up in knots over his actions. In fact, they painted him the agressor and the thieving petty criminals (one a young guy - the dead one)as the victims. It is this kind of LLL mentality nurtured by the leftwing press of socialist UK that makes their understanding of America, Ohio, Clark County and 2nd amendment rights so pathetically wrong. I will never understand the British class system but I have seen it at work everyday and it is alive and well. Do I go around writing letters and standing on a ladder in Hyde Park denouncing it. Hell no. It not my business, nor was the vote on fox hunting, privitizing hospitals, Railtrack or any other UK political issue. It is up to them to solve their own problems. We can give advice when asked, technology when required and services when needed. I don't think this is going well with theh majority of the UK public only the noisy nannies of promoted socialism.

Posted by Jack is Back! 2004-10-19 3:06:30 PM|| 2004-10-19 3:06:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Good grief!, I didn't realise they'd brought Tony Martin into their letter. Bloody idiots (but I'm very pleased that they did!), this may have given Cook County to Bush.

So, do we think Bush is going to make it? I'm certainly hoping so.

As an aside, a lot of people are fed up of the nanny state here (and *royally* pissed off with the friggin' EU!), so I'm still hopeful we'll get ourselves sorted out...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-10-19 3:15:57 PM|| 2004-10-19 3:15:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hell, here in Texas Tony Martin would have the thanks of a greatful constabulary for reducing the quantity of a--hole thieves they have to deal with regularly.
And Prof. Dawkins may think it teddibly, teddibly uncivilized...but the odd thing is... home invasion is a pretty rare crime around here

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-10-19 3:29:26 PM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-10-19 3:29:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Mike Kozlowski -

What percentage of Clevelanders would you guess are aware of Al-Guardian's campaign?

How can we Rantburgers most effectively increase that awareness?

Posted by lex 2004-10-19 3:40:33 PM|| 2004-10-19 3:40:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's Steyn's Tony Martin quote:
The reason is advice like this, from Guardian reader Richard Dawkins, Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins begins his missive to the Clark County swing voter with a little light Bushophobia: "An idiot he may be, but he is also sly, mendacious and vindictive... thuggish ideologues. pariah state. brazenly lying. cynical mendacity" yada-yada. But then he goes on: "Now that all other justifications for the war are known to be lies, the warmongers are thrown back on one, endlessly repeated: the world is a better place without Saddam. No doubt it is. But that's the Tony Martin school of foreign policy."
At this point, the Guardian's editors intervene with an explanatory parenthesis: "[Martin was a householder who shot dead a burglar who had broken into his house in 1999]." And then Dawkins continues: "It's not how civilised countries, who follow the rule of law, behave. The world would be a better place without George Bush, but that doesn't justify an assassination attempt."

You just blew it big-time in Clark County, prof. Voters may be divided on Bush and on the Iraq war but, in the American heartland, they're generally agreed on a homeowner's right to take out a burglar.

Posted by Steve 2004-10-19 3:55:30 PM|| 2004-10-19 3:55:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Here's a link to the original story he's talking about.

Posted by gromky 2004-10-19 4:06:55 PM|| 2004-10-19 4:06:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 this may have given Cook County to Bush.

This may have been a typo, or it may not. For Bush to win Crook County (IL)is still a long shot at best, but I don't anticipate the votes coming in from Chicago as furiously for this present JFK as they did for the original JFK.

Reaons?

1) Hizzoner Da Mayer, Richard M. Daley was pretty pissed off when Kerry blew off the mayor's convention due to the presence of a picket line. (Something that didn't bother him the other day in Orlando, incidentally.)

2) Daley doesn't want to get on Bush's bad side since the mayor badly wants O'Hare expansion to go through.

Daley will be lukewarm (at best) for Kerry while decidedly not attacking Bush.

Posted by eLarson 2004-10-19 4:29:38 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-10-19 4:29:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The Ohio county targeted is Clark, not Cook.

Personally, I figure Cleveland will go for Kerry -- especially considering the 1,000 fraudulent registrations they've found there.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-10-19 5:02:26 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-10-19 5:02:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Could someone send some YOBS around to see Professor ~~Dickless~~ Dawkins. I may not be well spoken but I have had it with UK assclowns who think it's OK to bash my counrty. I defy any one to find any mainstream paper in the US that has the nerve to attack the UK, it's leadership or government let alone the temerity to attack Britain.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-19 10:54:16 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-10-19 10:54:16 PM|| Front Page Top

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