I never really think of her as emaciated, a bit skinny and bony. Fun to listen to too, it's like all raw, red meat. She and Michael Moore are like the Texas Steakhouse of political nutrition, they really raise your blood pressure.


Oh, you can beat up on the whole lot of them all day long, though I will say that none of them, from Robertson to Wright, are at the full-blown Farrakhan level of vileness, I believe they still qualify as 'primarily sane, should not be tarred and feathered except metaphorically'



Nope, not Buchanan, got the video linked below, plus Bush defending Quayle. The moderator should have been slapped for asking both questions, but Bush gave a decent answer, actually Dukakis gave a reasonable one too but such is life, both questions were low-brow IMHO.



Don't get me started on the Scopes Trial, I'm firmly believe everyone involved should've been flogged for using the court as a political theater. OJ Simpson's trial had nothing on that fiasco.



I think these days everyone has more or less agreed that communism is dead and totally unbridled capitalism doesn't fly, nor is anyone pushing for populism very strongly, and demarchy seems safely limited to the jury system. But on the realistic spectrum between vital-services socialism and anti-trust/cartel plus safety regulation I have to say I think we're better off shifting mostly to the right on that right now. While one can acknowledge that in theory there is a legit reason to do single-payer NHC as long as those same ideological elements attempt to push things like the Fairness Doctrine or banning salt in food preparation they can't be trusted not to use those new powers NHC would give for either political gain or simply going over-the-top. The left has done a very bad job reining in it's fringe this last decade or so, so I don't think a good case can be made to entrust them on this. I don't like slippery-slope analogies, but I really would be a heck of a lot more receptive to a lot of the suggested legislation from the left if they didn't always end up happening and leaving bloated expansionists bureaucracies and programs in their wake. There will be wild calls for punitive taxes on various unhealthy things, and it will have mass appeal, give it a decade and anything not on the health-nazi 'advised diet' will be taxed, I doubt it will turn as vicious as it has on cigarettes, but even that wouldn't surprise me. NExt thing you know will have people pulling a Charles Heston "You'll get my Big MAc when you pry it from my cold dead hands"