I bet the Amish can't wait to see biased cable-news reporting during the Republican convention...oh wait...

"You could hold up a dead mouse with a sign 'I love Bush' and we'd still probably think twice about stomping that mouse underfoot."

HUH?

Anyway...I was really under the impression that Amish people did not vote...it seems to me like it would be an act of Hubris...Or something...

I wonder about the less fulfledges menninites...wouldn't they be a good source for GOP votes as well?

In a related story... the Church of Stockula has gotten behind Ralph "unsafe at any speed" Nader.

[Edited on Aug 05, 2004 by Raoul_Duke]

Desperate like a fox. Where do the Amish live, mostly? Ohio and Pennsylvania. Major swing states where every vote counts.

At least the Amish have pulses. The Democrats usually look for new voters in cemetaries.

[Edited on Aug 05, 2004 by stockula]

Not talking about the Goth vote, either.

Funny how they're willing to overlook the foreign bloodshed if it means taxpaying gay couples will still be legally discriminated against. Nice to know their priorities are straight.

Bitterness, Table for one. Calling Bitterness...Your table is ready.

It's a time-honored Democrat tradition

BOB ROACH'S PLAN FOR CIRCUMVENTING A DEMOCRAT

Where did all these Democrats come from? They grow thicker and thicker and act more and more outrageously at each successive election. Now yesterday they had the presumption to elect S. H. Dwinelle to the Judgeship of the Fifteenth District Court, and not content with this, they were depraved enough to elect four out of the six Justices of the Peace! Oh, 'Enery Villiam, where is thy blush! Oh, Timothy Hooligan, where is thy shame! It's out. Democrats haven't got any. But Union men staid away from the election - they either did that or else they came to the election and voted Democratic tickets - I think it was the latter, though the Flag will doubtless say it was the former. But these Democrats didn't stay away - you never catch a Democrat staying away from an election. The grand end and aim of his life is to vote or be voted for, and he accommodates to circumstances and does one just as cheerfully as he does the other. The Democracy of America left their native wilds in England and Connaught to come here and vote - and when a man, and especially a foreigner, who don't have any voting at home any more than an Arkansas man has ice-cream for dinner, comes three or four thousand miles to luxuriate in occasional voting, he isn't going to stay away from an election any more than the Arkansas man will leave the hotel table in "Orleans" until he has destroyed most of the ice cream. The only man I ever knew who could counteract this passion on the part of Democrats for voting, was Robert Roach, carpenter of the steamer Aleck Scott, "plying to and from St. Louis to New Orleans and back," as her advertisement sometimes read. The Democrats generally came up as deck passengers from New Or leans, and the yellow fever used to snatch them right and left - eight or nine a day for the first six or eight hundred miles; consequently Roach would have a lot on hand to "plant" every time the boat landed to wood - "plant" was Roach's word. One day as Roach was superintending a burial the Captain came up and said:

"God bless my soul, Roach, what do you mean by shoving a corpse into a hole in the hill-side in this barbarous way, face down and its feet sticking out?"

"I always plant them foreign Democrats in that manner, sir, because, damn their souls, if you plant 'em any other way they'll dig out and vote the first time there's an election - but look at that fellow, now - you put 'em in head first and face down and the more they dig the deeper they'll go into the hill."

In my opinion, if we do not get Roach to superintend our cemeteries, enough Democrats will dig out at the next election to carry their entire ticket. It begins to look that way.

http://www.twainquotes.com/18651024t.html

So, a humorist writing about a party 140 years ago.
If you'll take that as gospel surly you'll have no trouble accepting Doonesbury's coverage of the current campaign as reasonable and considered fact.

I'll post them from time to time to remind you of that.

This is funny. It has Rupert.

Eh. I like better this Doonesbury from 1971, when Hanoi John was trying to make a name for himself slamming American soldiers' conduct in Vietnam. Which now, of course, he's proud of.



"Speaks with an astonishing conviction". Ha.



[Edited on Aug 05, 2004 11:22PM]

3 comics in 1971 about , oddly enough, not John Kerry's slamming american soldier's conduct in Vietnam but in fact referring to a Kerry appearance or appearances reguarding the publishing of Ellberg / Sheehan Pentigon Papers excerpts for the NYT, a corpus that roundly criticizes the conduct of the people both in the DOD and in the various administrations ( democratic administrations) that completely mis-managed the war and wasted the lives of american soldiers based on hype around a fashionable theory of containment and The Domino Effect (a theory that, though effectively was discredited, continued to be used by Reagan in out little unplesantness in Latin America during his reign)

So, american wit running 3 or so Kerry blasts, blasts directed at school peer and fellow Skull and Bones man (by all accounts).

Balance that with what he's had to say about the Bush Family over the last 24 years (S&B'sers all) and we achieve......




Fair and Balanced Reporting

Edited to add that Vietnam is not the only recent war baced on threadbare thinking. The Bud Bowl is ample evidence of that.

[Edited on Aug 05, 2004 by tretiak]

These particular religious zealots are not too likely to sway the vote for some beads and trinkets.
This is par for the course

Overview excerpt:

So, new behavior and technology generally have 2 year probation periods which makes it unlikely that november will big a big thing.

Unless it's those damn Beachy Amish. Worldly Motherfuckers.

They don't vote.