Jackie Gleason Bets The Mortgage On Harper
I don't have any poll numbers or riding breakdowns, but my simple guy-on-the-street take is that the Liberals aren't going to win for a while.
My secret knowledge comes from my having previously watched "The Hustler", with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason - in particular the scene where Fats beats Eddie badly at dawn, and tells Eddie that he's a loser because he talks and dresses and acts like a loser - so he'll always lose.
For years, anytime you'd talk politics, Conservatives would get all blustery and shrill and tell you what a commie you were, and cry out that no one understood them. Everything was just spin, the media was against them, boo hoo. And they just kept losing. Liberals would say, "Well, you know, that's interesting - but here's something you may not have considered."
Liberals were inclusive and avuncular, Conservatives were total jerks (speaking generally).
But now....it's the Conservatives who are kindly and avuncular and want to include you, and it's the Liberals who are shrill and angry and will tell you what a fascist you must be, that no one understands them. It's all just spin, and the media is against them. Boo hoo.
I'm all for getting rid of parties completely, but we seem stuck with them for the time being. And for the time being, the Liberals are Eddie Nelson and the Conservatives are Fats Minnesota.
My secret knowledge comes from my having previously watched "The Hustler", with Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason - in particular the scene where Fats beats Eddie badly at dawn, and tells Eddie that he's a loser because he talks and dresses and acts like a loser - so he'll always lose.
For years, anytime you'd talk politics, Conservatives would get all blustery and shrill and tell you what a commie you were, and cry out that no one understood them. Everything was just spin, the media was against them, boo hoo. And they just kept losing. Liberals would say, "Well, you know, that's interesting - but here's something you may not have considered."
Liberals were inclusive and avuncular, Conservatives were total jerks (speaking generally).
But now....it's the Conservatives who are kindly and avuncular and want to include you, and it's the Liberals who are shrill and angry and will tell you what a fascist you must be, that no one understands them. It's all just spin, and the media is against them. Boo hoo.
I'm all for getting rid of parties completely, but we seem stuck with them for the time being. And for the time being, the Liberals are Eddie Nelson and the Conservatives are Fats Minnesota.
posted by Jacques Beau Vert at 1:17 PM
3 Comments:
I love it!
Aw, yer sweet. I'm blushing.
'when i'm calling you hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo'....yep, eddie nelson.
ah shit, i hate it when i can't see the original post!
i'm not for the party system either. waiting for some bold one to get elected and say, 'now that we're elected, here's COMPLETE reformation'. hmmmmm, i think it will take mass civil unrest , nuclear bombs, and all that shitty stuff to wake us up into that kind of thing.
yuck, how long do we have to go on voting strategically federally? i still think alfred e. numan would make the best pm of all.
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