Jewish Odysseus: ADIEU, RUDY.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

ADIEU, RUDY.

We all know in our hearts why Rudy lost. Consider:

Republicans admire and respect WORK; Dhimms admire sloth/welfare. Republicans despise sloth.

Republicans value a full, vigorous fight; Dhimms admire cleverness and shortcuts.

Republicans appreciate fairness; Dhimms hate fairness, and bend or run over the rules whenever they can.

Rudy openly wrote off THE FIRST FIVE STATES, because...well, because he COULD. And it would be to his TACTICAL ADVANTAGE.

I'm not a golfer, but I know what a mulligan is. Almost no-one has a problem with someone taking a mulligan in a friendly game. But imagine a bunch of Republicans were watching a big golf tournament, and one of the golfers declared he'd found a way to win by taking a mulligan on each of the first 5 holes...How would those Republican spectators feel about the "brilliant" strategy?

Republicans all honor "the man in the arena," as TR called him. Rudy's plan was to let the other men bloody each other in the arena for 5 fights, then charge in and slay the exhausted battlers. His plan was anathema to Republican sensibilities, hence his campaign's implosion. C'est tout.

3 comments:

Marzouq the Redneck Muslim said...: Let's hope Mc Cain loses steam. I understand his psyche and I fear it. I understand the underpinning of his toughness in the Hanoi Hilton. It was a fear, a healthy fear to not shame his father, Admiral Mc Cain.

Mc Cain is a wounded, damaged warrior. His judgement is therefore suspect. He has demonstrated this in several ways, especially Mc Cain/Feingold.

Salaam eleikum Y'all; February 2, 2008 at 10:24:00 AM PST
Nancy Coppock said...: I couldn't agree with my redneck friend more. McCain is indeed damaged goods. What a revelation when a tenured Senator admits he "doesn't know much about economics." We have allowed ourselves to be ruled by the ignorant who are oblivious to the law of unintended consequences. "I feel like I'm on crazy pills or something!" (Zoolander) or to make another movie quote: "A person is smart...people are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it." (Men In Black)
Hailing from Texas where we don't get to vote in the primary until March 4, it's like watching the Titanic hitting the iceberg over and over and over.; February 5, 2008 at 8:57:00 AM PST
Jewish Odysseus said...: M&N, you have both hit upon key facets of the bizarre McCain syndrome, and the willingness of so many "Repubs" to be seduced by it...As I write this early in the AM on 2/6, it looks like he is sure to win Super Doomsday. :- (; February 5, 2008 at 9:36:00 PM PST

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The Odyssey by Homer, Chapter 21:

For long Odysseus stood with the bow in his hands, handling it as a minstrel handles a lyre when he stretches a cord or tightens a peg. Then he bent the great bow; he bent it without an effort, and at his touch the bow-string made a sound that was like the cry of a swallow. The wooers seeing him bend that mighty bow felt, every man of them, a sharp pain at the heart. They saw Odysseus take up an arrow and fit it to the string. He held the notch, and he drew the string, and he shot the bronze-weighted arrow straight through the holes in the back of the axe-heads. Then as Eumæus took up the axes, and brought them outside, he said, ‘Thou seest, lord Telemachus, that thy guest does not shame thee through foolish boasting. I have bent the bow of Odysseus, and I have shot the arrow aright. But now it is time to provide the feast for the lords who woo thy lady mother. While it is yet light, the feast must be served to them, and with the feast they must have music and the dance.’ Saying this he nodded to Telemachus, bending his terrible brows. Telemachus instantly girt his sword upon him and took his spear in his hand. Outside was heard the thunder of Zeus. And now Odysseus had stripped his rags from him and was standing upright, looking a master of men. The mighty bow was in his hands, and at his feet were scattered many bronze-weighted arrows.