Proxies for Left & Right Play Hardball
By Erick Posted in 2006 — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Be sure to watch Hardball tonight at 5pm. Rightroots favorite Van Taylor is going to debate lefty netroots favorite (until they threw him under the train) Paul Hackett about Iraq.
Both Hackett and Taylor served in the Iraq War. Hackett is now a lefty-peacenik. Taylor believes in the mission and is the only Republican running in November who has fought in the Iraq War.
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it was pretty sad, hackett made mincemeat out of taylor , he really came off looking bad, he really couldn`t defend his position on the war.
"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing." -- Ronald Reagan
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
My day for these, it seems.
To date, all we've had of you is substance free drive by garbage. If you can improve that, stay. If not, you go, one way or another. We cool?
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Even those who learn from history are surrounded by those doomed to repeat it.
have made mincemeat out of Bush, Cheney and Pete Pace too.
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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?
I listened to the interview on the XM on the drive home, so I can only say what it sounded like.
Hackett took the debate in a walk, not even close. He also had Mathews poking Van, but that was a given. Hackett was quite pumped up and passionate, probably a bit over the top, but very articulate. Hackett is not going to the get out now pitch yet, but hammers Bush quite hard on Strategic views and lack of goals.
Taylor had talking points, and sorry to say little else. Not a lot of fire in the belly for answering Mathews "Hardball's" about why we are in Iraq, and he was throwing at the Taylor's head. Taylor tried getting in some licks against his opponent, but Mathews cut him off, and frankly the claim was some meandering stuff about insurance companies and how his opponent voted for something or the other, the whole thing was cut off by Mathews.
I could probably come up with some more baseball metaphors, but the debate was not a good one that needs a lot more said in my view.
Or has it hit Youtube yet?
Looks like Hackett may have changed a few minds nationwide. Of course, given Hardball's ratings, I do mean "a few."
Mathews is worse in some ways than many of the other talking heads. He's fast on his feat, sharp of tongue and will rip anyone to pieces if they don't have their stuff together. He's also about as liberal as Ted Kennedy, but he tends to be an arse at times to even Democrats but he's usually more nasty to Republicans. Today he was simi nice to Taylor for some reason.
The only recent interview where he was shut down was Ann C. and she did it mostly by calling him on his bias at every topic and at every turn. It was actually a good interview, though I'm not a fan of Ms. Coulter.
Hackett sounded like any other whining Democrat. So, another Dem would think he had the 'better' argument. However, Hackett was quite wrong. He stated when talking about terrorism that you cannot defeat a "strategy" you had to defeat the "philosophy". And that from someone that is supposed to know about this stuff. Yeah, let's convince the Islamofascists that their religious are all upside down. Let's not stop their strategy of implementing cells to kill innocents and terrorize civilians.
It's spelled "nutroots." Please make a note of it.
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