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Posted at 12:42pm on Feb. 6, 2008 Well, I didn't want to leave without saying goodbye.

By Tbone

In what will readily be recognized as my most valuable contribution to Redstate in the two years and 28 weeks during which I have poked, annoyed, mocked, insulted and genuinely grown fond of my fellow commentors, I am giving us all a break and will no longer be adding my inflation adjusted, two cents worth to the collective knowledge.

As was so often the case during my tenure, I have found myself in agreement with and unable to refute the dearly departed and sorely missed Thomas “the Ragin’ Cajun” Crown. In short, the Republican presidential candidates, taken singularly or collectively, hold little interest for me. It now appears that John McCain, whose only distinction is that he has been running for President longer than Hillary, will be given the opportunity to carry the Party’s Standard firmly attached to a Bob Dole signature model Zimmer frame.

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Posted at 12:57pm on Jan. 28, 2008 Tbone To Vote For Romney!

By Tbone

In that I will doubtlessly participate in the California primary, I have finally focused on the attributes of the various candidates so that I can make a studied choice as to who to give my doubtlessly deciding vote.(Sorry, Fred you left too soon) I have come to the conclusion that Romney exclusively possesses certain qualities that have left me no choice but to cast my vote for the Mitter. Following, I will enumerate those qualities so that you, the reader, may be edified. Those qualifying qualities are:

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Posted at 11:14am on Jan. 25, 2008 Peggy Noonan is an Airhead, Once Again.

By Tbone

The poor dear, once again thinking she is somewhat relevant reveals in her WSJ Journal editorial further proof of her ineptitude in analyzing anything more complex than the mirror image created by he right and left hands by blaming GWB for the current sorry state of the Republican Party.

"This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.

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Posted at 12:53pm on Jan. 24, 2008 I Need Somebody to Love

By Tbone

"Do you need anybody
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love"
Beatles '67

Now that Fred is gone, I have nobody to love. Thomas Crown, in his recent autoeulogy, very eloquently setforth the reasons that none of the the Republican dwarfs pretending to be POTUS- Ready were worthy of his support. He, of course, included Fred in his critique and with what he said of Fred I have little issue.

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Posted at 5:02pm on Dec. 24, 2007 Here is the Merry Christmas Open Thread

By Tbone

OK folks, here is the ""I want to wish my fellow RedStaters a Merry Christmas" thread. And, who says ol' Tbone ain't just a sentimental sweetie?

So, Ho Ho Ho Meeeerry Christmas to all.

May the presence of Christ be with you,
Tbone.

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Posted at 8:23pm on Nov. 30, 2007 I Have Decided to Become President of the United States.

By Tbone

I am pleased to announce that I've decided to become President of the United States. There are several reasons for this some of which are personal others are because I feel that I owe something to the common people.

On the personal level, the pay is okay with a good retirement program. It seems to include room and board and a 747 plus rich folk from all over the world give you gifts that you can take with you, along with selected furnishings, when you leave office. You can also sell pardons which only cost you the paper on which they're printed, kind of like the Mint. Afterwards you get lots of money for giving boring speeches to rooms full of fools who have paid you the money up front.

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Posted at 2:47pm on Nov. 20, 2007 The Singule Most Important Issue to come before SCOTUS.

By Tbone

SCOTUS has decided to hear the Second Amendment Case. It is time that we found out what the word "People" means. The lower court majority ruling is very definitive. Any Justice that can not concur will show that their appointment was an absolute travesty.

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Posted at 12:37pm on Nov. 6, 2007 Hoping Grassley Gets His Ticket Punched to Hell.

By Tbone

It case you missed the this latest abuse of Senate investigation power, take a quick read. Now, I am not defending the targets of this old fool's ire. I have no idea if they are guilty of abuse or not. Nor do I view this as a government/religion matter. What I do know is that the IRS is charged with investigating tax exempt organizations and making compliance determinations, not some publicity hungry panel of fools like what is created every time you seat 5 or more US Senators in a row.

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Posted at 5:33pm on Oct. 4, 2007 Has RedState Changed its Identity?

By Tbone

I have always assumed, as the name RedState implies, that this site was a political site primarily concerned with the trials, tribulations but most importantly, the advancement of the Republican Party.

Granted, the conservative agenda is not always a perfect match with the Party's platform but I think most would agree that the Republican Party is the only realistic political entity positioned to advance any of the conservative agenda.

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Posted at 10:33pm on Oct. 3, 2007 Democrats: Parasites without a Country.

By Tbone

It is time to drop all pretenses. The leadership of the Democrat Party is only interested in the Democrat Party and has no interest in the United States of America. They can't be traitors nor can their acts be considered treasonous because they have become true ex-patriots as assuredly as if they had physically left America and formally renounced their citizenship.

However, they have no other place they prefer because here is where they receive their sustenance. But, in that they care not for the well being of their host, they can only be considered parasites feasting on our political, social and economic systems and adding nothing positive in return.

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Posted at 3:34pm on Sep. 28, 2007 Who Supports Torture?

By Tbone

OK Redstaters, Russert posed the following question to Bill Clinton's Better Half,(pretty funny when you consider that):

"We have captured the number three man in Al Qaeda; a bomb is set to go off somewhere in the country; and we know he knows where it is."

So fess up now, what would you be willing to do personally or support by proxy? After all, if it is a fair question for the candidates, it is a fair question for each of us.

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Posted at 11:52am on Sep. 26, 2007 Well, "This Just Takes the Cake" Award Winner

By Tbone

If you had any doubt that stupidity flows like a river through corporate America, I offer you this as proof positive. Nike has always been one of those corporations that has embraced the liberal hypocrisy of doing good but really just interested in doing well. You know, great marketing driving overpriced products made by underpaid workers. Whatever.

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Posted at 9:41pm on Aug. 19, 2007 2008 GOP Ticket Announced

By Tbone

Having grown weary of reading endless threads about the mitt/rudy/john clownmobile masquerading as the Republican side of the 2008 primary circus, to which if you actually had to sell tickets would look like the crowd at the next Devil Rays game, I have decided to give you the benefit of my superior intelligence, experience, insight, foresight and wisdom and announce 2008 Republican ticket.

While it is a minor amusement to read the threads written by the apologists for Mitt, who isn't going to get elected because he is a Mormon, like it or not, or for Rudy, who isn't going to get nominated because he is a Northeast liberal anti-gun rino or for John "can you spare some change" McCain who is more likely to end up as a Wal-Mart greeter than President United States, those all at the least maintain a tenuous grip on reality compared to the Tancredo/Paul threads that were they written by free associating LSD trippers would at least be comprehensible in the moment.

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Posted at 7:13pm on Jul. 31, 2007 You Just May Be A Fredneck...

By Tbone

OK, I just want to say that I'm no Joe Biden. I have appropriated the term "Fredneck" from our very own haystack, whose cleverness, based upon a google search, confirms his originality with a hat tip to Common Cents for the idea contained herein.

So, feel free to add to the following, both good and bad, and let the party rooollll.

If you cringe when you hear a New York accent, you just may be a Fredneck.

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Posted at 4:06pm on Jun. 11, 2007 Why Fred Thompson is going to be The Next President of the United States.

By Tbone

I know that a lot my fellow sojourners here at the Redstate Republican Resort and Country Club, are fluent in the minutia of political nuance. I often marvel at your almost savant abilities to inspect, dissect, reflect, reject, inject and conject in making the connects concerning the political positions of each potential or proclaimed candidate regardless of their individual consequence. I mean really, wasting a single pixel of text pass the sentence "Ron Paul ain't never going to be president of nothing" is an extravagance that should be exclusively reserved for wonkian degenerates.

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