Daily Gut: Novelty Acts
by Greg GutfeldSo within days of the death of the great Jack Kemp, the living embodiment of Montgomery Burns, Arlen Specter, found a way to blame his death on Republican policies. He claimed that “if we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer…Jack Kemp would be alive today.”
To which, I can only add as a side note to the Democratic Party: “Enjoy, he`s all yours.”
Which leads me to my next point: As a fan of Kemp, I`m always on the lookout for someone like him. On tv, I keep seeing Joe the Plumber, a pretty average guy who seems decent – except, you know, he doesn’t want the gays near his kids. Speaking of kids, there`s that Jonathan Krohn tyke on talk shows – reciting the conservative party line better than most dithering white haired weenies crawling the halls of the Capitol. He’s smart, but he weirds me out. Maybe because at 13 he’s already taller than me – or maybe because he just comes off as a novelty act, like a hairless cat reciting the alphabet (which is kinda cool).
Which is why I bring up these guys up – not because I hate them, but because I despise novelty. The left was always the three ring circus of novelty – its microcosm, the Huffington Post, reflected this with children writing blogs, next to the incompetent bomber, the conspiracy freak, and the bearded lady poet. Sometimes it was all the same person.
Now I’m not saying that the plumber or the paperboy don’t belong in the conservative movement. They just shouldn’t be IN FRONT of it. We’ll find our leaders, or hopefully, soon they’ll find us. But it’s not going to be a guy whose middle name is an article, or a boy still sleeping in a twin bed. We don’t, in fact, need anyone who “plays a role.” What’s needed is someone, like Kemp, who was both real, and smart – and not a cartoon.
Unless, of course, it`s a unicorn. Then I take back everything I just said.
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Hopefully, the conservative movement can find someone that the press won't destroy in seconds. Typical of Arlen Sphyncterboy. Glad he has moved on and come out of the closet. We need the rest of the old guys gone as well.
And if you disagree… you, sir, are worse… then HItler!
Arlen "every which way the political winds blow" Specter is an even more fossilized version of Monty Burns at this point…
It looks like Specter is going to Biden the back of his hand, that would be funny. You go looking for love you’ll never find it. A true conservative leader will emerge and we must hold his or her feet to the fire. Pay no attention to the stupid Republican listening tour this nothing more than Washington politicians attempting to save their own bacon, and shape a moderate position, horse squeeze. We just tried that in 08 worked out great didn’t it, barf. In 79 they said Reagan was to radical, voodoo economics, war monger, and on and on. He ran on conservative ideals and won two landslide elections. A real conservative for less government, personal freedom, and real change, back to our founding.
Decent people are out there … but who wants to subject themselves to the wrath of the left? The ridicule, smear-campaigning, dirt-digging that goes on RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES, but the media refuse to acknowledge it.
It will take a very tough person to outlast the crazies on the Left.
Arlen Specter is just venting his true parasitic colors as a Democrat. He seems to have been holding these emotions down for some time & now he can release–at Jack Kemp & the Republicans' expense. I hope Arlen Specter loses even as a Democrat…
Ariana Huffington has a beard? OMG! HA!
Yeah, that 13 year old kid freaks me OUT! I wish his homeschooling parents would get a clue and some self respect and keep him at home where he belongs. Haven't they heard that children should be seen and not heard.
He is definitely a novelty act, with his pre-pubertiness and grammatical error-filled book. Too bad an immature little kid is the new brains of the conservative movement. I'm moving on to the LP!
Perfect! I couldn't agree more. I think there's way too much clamoring for someone to look the part of a leader, instead of just letting the smart, driven, and well-spoken ones ascend to leadership the old-fashioned way. Just because Fox and talk radio are successes doesn't mean Conservatism or the Republican party needs to be filled with entertainment to win.
I can't tell you how happy I am that Arlen showed his true colors and defected. Man, I feel better already.
Greg – you despise novelty? Then what do you call Red Eye?
But seriously, I agree with your point. I've grown quite tired of Joe's over exposure (he's even campaigning for Lonegan here in NJ) But we definitely need more "real" people speaking up for the conservative movement or the Dems will continue to brand us as the old rich white guy party, when in fact Republicans (not necessarily the current crop of politicians) are the more tolerant, more in touch with reality party. My husband and I love all the intelligent, attractive conservative women that are contributors on Fox.
Montgomery Burns is far more amusing than Specter… as Dennis Miller said the other day, "I haven't trusted Specter since James Bond warned me about him in Dr No". as Monty Burns would say "Smithers- Release the Hounds!"
No, she was a beard. Her ex-husband Michael is a homosexual.
The problem is the only conservative who's really speaking up with a clear eye on the White House is Gingrich. I like Newt and all, but his negatives are like Hillary, and running the old white guy against the hip young guy never works (see also: Kennedy/Nixon debates, GHW Bush vs. Bill "Arsenio Hall" Clinton).
And sorry, Bobby Jindall won't work either. He's young and Indian, but the Dems have Kumar. They got us beat there, too.
It will take someone who is strong enough to fire back at the MSM, to call them on their game of complete obedience to the Left, to speak to and for the people. Good looking wouldn't hurt, either.
Too bad Romney's a Mormon — if he was Catholic, not only would he have been the nominee, he could have been president. (Or at least would have been close enough for ACORN fraud to matter.)
No slam against the Mormons, but there's too much misinformation about them and their beliefs (which, because of Romney, liberal corporations like HBO were happy to spread thanks to shows like Big Love).
I wonder if Palin is in that same boat? She is a face that I agree with, but the press have destroyed her and getting her in front of the conservative movement would be difficult. The right needs someone that the press won't destroy in seconds flat, but that can withstand the blows of the press.
I've got no problem with JtP, except that he is the only one of his kind. I don't think anyone in the conservative movement actually thinks of him as a "leader" in the conservative movement – MSNBC just says that we do, and sadly Greg, you believed them. Joe caught fire because he was a normal guy who beat the the professional politicians to the punch when it came to facetime. We need more plumbers and carpenters and secretaries and coffee shop owners speaking out and taking leadership positions in the party. Then, there will be no more novelty. That should be the goal – more Joe the Plumbers, not fewer.
Greg – spot on and funny. We permit these guys to be propped up in front of cameras I guess mostly for entertainment, and we do so at the risk of undermining the main message of the true reality-based community.
I think us conservatives give the MSM way too much power, to say that we need to find someone the press "won't destroy in seconds" is to give them credit for "destroying" other conservative leaders (and "in seconds" no less).
I contend that they've destroyed nobody (other than their own credibility) by attacking conservatives like Sarah Palin or any of the media conservatives like Limbaugh, Hannity, et al.
Screw the MSM, they are an irrelevant dinosaur.
Feel free to wonder how much of Arlen's rant is self-reflective, as he's been treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma twice now, 2005 and 2008, don't know his current condition. Forget Kemp, if they had followed through then Specter could live! Why, he might never had gotten sick at all!
This assessment on the inherent speed of scientific research and progress has been brought to you by those expecting economical zero-maintenance solar-powered electrical generators that pump out megawatts while spitting out lumps of carbon extracted from the atmosphere to be coming off of the re-purposed GM assembly lines in September. Throw enough of taxpayer money at anything and it gets done a lot faster, right?
The MSM in-the-tank Press and the demo's hate anyone conservative. I would rather we got their most hated conservative to run for President in 2012. That would be Sarah Palin. She would be an amazing vote getter and front runner. Why do you think the Demo's attack her so ehemently? She scares the crap out of the liberals. They know a winner when they see one. I also think Sarah would steal the independent vote and all of the conservatives in the entire country would turn out to vote for her. If it wasn't for Sarah running as the VP on the Republican ticket, the RINO McCain would never have gotten over 55 Million votes in the 2008 election.
You're right. They are slipping everyday.
Except for Kemp coming to California to hector us as racists for demanding an end to bilingual "education," I thought he was great. Poor old Dole wasn't going to win California, with or without that faux pas. Specter using Kemp's death as a political tool for his friends on the left is both reprehensible and predictable. As if "free" "universal" health care and subsidized research would have made one iota of difference in Kemp's death. It's disgusting and ridiculous at the same time.
It's true that Greg despises novelty. That's why he kept "Pinch" going about 3 weeks longer than he should have. It definitely ceased being novel. Even the director gave up on the premise and started cutting to a wide shot while that ethnic kid was still pulling the wire up and down.
Besides, I always envisioned the New York Times having thick glasses and sounding like Woody Allen with lots of references to Lillian Hellman and Fellini with the odd Martin Borman joke thrown in. You know – phony Manhattan hip circa 1970. Instead they made him sound like Prescott Bush. Everyone knows that's what the WSJ sounds like.
If I were her husband, I'd have gone gay, too. Anything to get away from her.
There is new blood in the GOP that hasn't got much play yet. I'm thinking a Thune/Jindal ticket in '12.
I can think of a certain redhead who's missing from your novelty-act list…
"the war on cancer" ……..I think all these politicans need a brain transplant…..
the press can destroy anyone. The only thing thats been missing is the fighting back. The media can be taken down. It can be done. Dont doubt that these punks are stronger than us. Palin proved she can kick someone in the * * * s when needed.
my money was on Romney. He can pray to tin cans for all I care.
does anyone else remember the bold stand the former DA took during Clinton's impeachment of "Not Proven"?
isn't this inspiring? using some obscure Scottish procedure. He didn't want to make anyone mad and wouldn't even take a stand then. Opportunist all the way
Finding dirt on the left wing journalists is the answer.
Supernatural Cat! I agree, and I think the fighting back is going on now.
You've got a problem with Zsa Zsa Gabor?
Forgive me, but what is wrong with not wanting 'the gays' near your kids? I don't want BDSM practitioners, furries, or wife-swappers near my kids either. It's not about the specific nature of being gay; it's about not wanting people who make their sexual practice their primary method of self-identification influencing children.
No matter how you feel about private sexual practices, there is something wrong with people who identify themselves by what they do in the bedroom (or, in some cases, the kitchen).
I couldn't really agree with you more, Greg. I'm 19 and conservative in that Libertarian way and nothing dampens my enthusiasm in the Party more than its lack of leadership. From the elected leadership, Boehner (is that pronounced Boner?), Cantor (whose campaign ads I remember mostly his bizarre head movements while speaking), McCain, Jindal (god, was his national debut a kick in the balls), and Palin (if shes the choice in 2012, then the GOP has become worse than the Dems when it comes to style over substance), etc to the non-elected ones like Limbaugh (who is fine as he is, the voice of the conservative wing of the party, but isn't the party's voice entire), Gingrich (the guy might have ideas, but your right, hes old, and hes not converting the unconverted), and Joe the Plumber, the whole lot is uninspired and uninspiring.
Where are the good ideas? Why can't the party have a liberal and conservative wing (some Gays don't like big government, you know)? Like him or not (and Specter has always been an oddball, as his comment on Kemp shows), there was no reason to lose Specter. It is better to have a liberal Republican than a conservative Democrat. But the party seems more interested in bending the conservative wing's demands than inviting in those who have differing views. Maybe if the GOP wasn't hellbent on moving to the right and ignoring people Specter, Lieberman would be caucusing with us.
Until the party starts being more inclusive (without the goofy and deftless approach of people like Michael Steele), it will continue to shrink in influence. The country is drifting left. We need to change to adapt to that trend (I'd pray more socially than fiscally).
I hope we don't have to wait to my generation for that change to come.
Only when she started doing Aamco commercials about twenty years ago. "Tell them Zsa Zsa sends you." Which husband's Rolls Royce did she take to Aamco?
Will we need a "cancer czar", too?
I was not going to vote for McCain. I wasn't even going to vote for him when he announced Palin as his running mate. She was fine and all, but just not interesting enough to get me to overcome the shock that McCain got the nomination.
Then, I observed as the "journalists" of world seemed to run themselves ragged to be the one on record as hating Palin the most.
THAT'S when I realized I wanted to vote for her, even if it meant voting for another lousy excuse of a Republican like McCain. As the Karate Kid taught us, if you walk down the middle, you get "squished like grape."
If the lame-stream media seems to agree on something, and to have come to some sort of educated consensus, chances are it's the absolute WRONG thing to do.
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The problem is there is no such thing as 'liberal conservatism'. You cannot be socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
Don;t think that Palin was destroyed. Most of the MSM attacks on her were ankle-biters.
Of course you can, we're called Libertarians.
If history has taught us anything it's that socio/economic/now medical wars never work.
Before anyone should start blaming a single party for not curing cancer or solving world peace, they first have to take action to divert funding towards cancer research and away from AIDS. AIDS has been highly overfunded for years now. I saw a commercial recently about AIDS and the dramatic impact it was having on Americans lives… I can't remeber what the percentage was but it was so low I was confused as to what the commercial was actually about. The truth was that AIDS was affecting very few lives in the US compared to any other disease out there. The Flu kills more people in the US than AIDS does.
Why has so much money been pumped into AIDS research for so long?
The war on Drugs….. Lost……
The war on Poverty….Lost……
The war on Cancer….?…..
The blue one.
At least he has his own room and doesn't have to live in the basement…..
but then again he's not 40.
but brain transplant's cause cancer ion czar's…………………..
Obama is the biggest novelty we've seen in years.
That's why I have no fear whatsoever of a resurgent conservative movement in 2012. I just hope it comes sooner, in 2010.
What?! That's half the Republican party! I'll bet half of the Independents and a third of Democrats, too.
As for Jindal he is absolutely great. A governor smart enough to understand the control of taking federal money and brave enough to reject it. Oh yeah that's right a true Constitutional Based Libertarian would certainly think that he was a "kick in the balls". How dare he take gubment cheese cause we don't like the gubment…. What?
How is the weather over at Media Matters HQ these days…………………………… I hear that Soros's boils were acting up again.
Where were all the Dems good ideas in the last 8 years? The only idea I saw from them was a three page document on how the US can increase security and one of them was the cover page. Other than that they were just obstructionists.
Besides, why would you want someone in the party that admitted the only reason he is switching is because his polling showed he would lose? That's the people in his district. That's what they want and he is trying to do an end-around to try to stay in power. That's the kind of people you want in office? Why didn't he just go independent? Because he is chickenshit and wants to latch on to the cult of personality.
That being said, I'm glad there are 19 yr old conservative out there. I wish I had been that smart at 19.
The husband or the Rolls Royce.
I'm sticking with Jindal. He'll be around as a political force for years to come. Kumar will be back as the fourth lead on a TV show within a year.
Boy, do I remember that. All I could think is that I hope that grizzly old bastard doesn't show up in kilts.
I was, of course, referring to Mr. Jindal's lamentable speech and way of speaking. His points were, at best, predictable and he really did sound like Kenneth from 30 Rock. Pointing out his awkward speaking may be superficial, but so is the electorate. No one would elect the nervous wreck who responded to Obama. Besides, the "I'm rejecting the government (gubment?) money because its bad and stuff" argument was just another stunt amongst many of my party leaders as they scramble to come up with something substantive to say.
I WANT US TO HAVE SOMETHING REAL TO SAY. Hell, I've got something real to say in response to Obama. Media Matters (which I suppose you are accusing me of working for or something) is to me no better or worse than the Media Research Center. They're both pathetically partisan and inflammatory, no one is converted to Republican thinking by MRC or to Democratic thinking by MM. L. Brent Bozell III is no better a leader of the party than George Soros is of the Dems.
Buddy, I've worked for a Republican State Senator and a Congressman. I'm more politically committed than most my age. Don't dismiss me as a shill for the Dems. I'm very real. And I know alot of people just like me.
Also, Palin was kept on a very short leash by the McCain people. I would really like to see her run her own campaign and do things her way. I think we might discover that she is a lot less interested in playing nice with the press than McCain was.
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And he would be jogging with Christopher Reeves if Gore had been elected.
Underneath a pink cloud of flying pigs.
Lucille Ball Was More Than A Novelty Act!!
That's simply not true. Libertarian means you let people do as they wish. It doesn't mean the 'liberal' agenda of giving everyone free health care, schooling, welfare, and so on.
People who tell you they're "fiscally conservative and socially liberal" are just trying to offset some of the meanness that's associated with being conservative. The thing is, people like that only weaken us. It's NOT mean to expect people to pull their weight, particularly when you can prove that creating massive safety nets for those who don't only hastens our destruction.
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