On 11-08-10, ROSS SAUER said to TIM RICHARDSON:



TR> But had the republican party gotten behind the Tea Party candidates,
TR> lent them solid support, instead of (in some cases) sniping at them
TR> from the side lines, the GOP would be in control of both houses of
TR> congress right now.


RS>The GOP, and the (now former) Tea Party candidates are distancing
RS>themselves from the Tea Party, since far too many are reactionary
RS>demagogues.


You need to get your head out of the sand and take a breath of fresh air once
in awhile, Otto. Being Klahn's sock puppet is robbing you of your ability to
think for yourself.......oh wait! You never could think for yourself, could
you?


RS>The Tea Party itself is fragmented, and fragmenting further, into
RS>factions, that are gleefully slamming each other.


You better look again, Otto. Tea Party candidates got elected all over the
place!


RS>> This is the typical Tea Party/reactionary right-winger response to
RS>> making stupid mistakes.


Taking the House away from democrats in the biggest hit job since the late
1940's isn't a `stupid mistake'.....except of course, to you and Klahn.


Here's a few other things for you to stew over:


Of Course Sarah Palin's 'Unfit': She's a Republican - Larry Elder - Townhall
Conservative


How much of the "Sarah Palin is not ready for prime time" criticism is
sincere? When the harping comes from the left, it's difficult to take it
seriously. Try to follow the bouncing standards.


Barbara Walters gushed over John F. Kennedy Jr. and foresaw a political future
for him. Never mind that the young man had flunked the New York bar exam --
twice.


"Dumb" former President George W. Bush, caricatured as a slacker in an Oliver
Stone movie, made better grades in college than did Al Gore, his opponent in
2000. Gore dropped out of divinity school after earning five F's. Then he
entered law school and dropped out. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for his
anti-global warming crusade, and his documentary won an Academy Award, but
Gore got a D in science at Harvard. Bush also scored higher on his verbal SAT
than did Rhodes scholar and "brainy" presidential candidate Bill Bradley.


"Dumb" former President Ronald Reagan majored in economics. But the late Sen.
Edward Kennedy, who ran for the presidency, got expelled from Harvard for
hiring someone to take a Spanish test.


"Dumb" Republican former President Gerald Ford was ridiculed as a bumbling
doofus by Chevy Chase on "Saturday Night Live." Democratic former President
Lyndon Baines Johnson famously quipped that Ford, who played football for the
University of Michigan, "spent too much time playing football without a
helmet."


But Ford graduated from Yale Law School, the same school that produced Bill
and Hillary Clinton.


The worldly and literate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who ran for president in
2004, didn't exactly kill on his military aptitude test. He got half the
questions right and half the questions wrong -- dead average. He explained his
poor showing by insisting, "I must have been drinking the night before."


Vice President Joe Biden's 1988 quest for the presidency evaporated when he
plagiarized a speech by a British politician. When someone questioned his
academic credentials at a campaign stop, the offended Biden claimed that he
had a full academic scholarship at law school and graduated in the top half of
his class. In fact, he had a need-based half-scholarship and graduated near
the bottom -- 76th out of 85.


Biden, in his political career, has stacked up enough gaffes for a dozen
politicians. Where to start? How about the time, during a 2008 campaign rally,
when Biden stood at the podium and implored a local lawmaker to "stand up."

The man in question was in a wheelchair. Or at a campaign rally when he said
the opponent's plan would do nothing about "a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-
S, jobs."


More importantly, what about Biden's judgment? Shortly after he became senator
in 1972, he voted to cut off funding the South Vietnamese in their war against
the North Vietnamese invaders despite President Richard Nixon's promise to
provide financial support and military airstrikes against a North invasion.

The country's failure to make good on this promise led to hundreds of
thousands of Vietnamese "boat people" and to the murder of an estimated 2
million Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge. Biden opposed the Reagan military
buildup and the Strategic Defense Initiative, which even some Reagan-haters
grudgingly concede hastened the demise of the Soviet Union. Biden called
Reagan's pursuit of SDI "one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in
the history of modern statecraft."


Biden opposed the first Gulf war, the "good" one. He voted for the Iraq War
and co-authored a Washington Post op-ed piece in which he warned that our
involvement would take a decade and urged the nation to show patience. When
the war went south, along with public opinion, Biden suggested breaking Iraq
into three parts. Then Biden reversed his support, said he regretted his vote,
and opposed Bush's successful "surge."


Former CBS reporter Dan Rather tried to prove -- based on documents that
turned out to be fraudulent -- that Bush received preferential treatment in
getting into the Texas Air National Guard. Former President Bill Clinton, on
the other hand, used familial political and social connections to deliberately
delay issuance of his draft notice until after he began his first year at
Oxford.


Ordered to report for induction the next summer, Clinton again used
connections -- including the approval of Arkansas Selective Service director
Willard Hawkins -- to join the University of Arkansas ROTC while he attended
law school, getting him a reservist deferment and nullifying his draft notice.

But Clinton then returned to Oxford, not Arkansas. When the draft lottery
placed him at the back of a very long line, Clinton wrote an explanatory
letter telling Hawkins that he "loathed" the military. With the Vietnam War
winding down and other draft requirement changes making it extremely unlikely
that he would be called up, Clinton symbolically asked his draft board to drop
his deferment and reclassify him "1-A."


Palin, if she decides to run, faces a grueling series of challenges -- just
like the other candidates. Except she'll not benefit from the selective
standard that liberals apply when evaluating "their own."


Larry Elder is a syndicated radio talk show host and best-selling author. His
latest book, "What's Race Got to Do with It?" is available now.

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