by hilzoy
The always delightful Ben Domenech of RedState has written a farewell speech he wishes Fred Thompson had given. Check out Thompson's descriptions of his rivals:
"Rudy Giuliani? Slick cheater. Mike Huckabee? Jesus freak. John McCain? Crazy. Mitt Romney? Woman."
No comment required.
For the moment, with no brief for Domenech, I'm thinking his post was a satire pointing at Thompson and the truly lousy slate of candidates available in the Republican primary, from Domenech's point of view.
I'm probably wrong; I seem to recall Domenech was a Guiliani man.
The funniest part is that, if I'm right that this is a satire critical of Thompson, very few of the commentariat over there got it.
I have a feeling if Domenech put the words "eat liberal babies" in Thompson's mouth, 98% of the commentariat would don bibs and salivate.
Posted by: John Thullen | January 30, 2008 at 12:24 PM
I don't know John, it could have been satire but it sound alot more like stage 4 of the seven stages of grief to me.
"DEPRESSION", REFLECTION, LONELINESS
Posted by: Davebo | January 30, 2008 at 01:47 PM
One comment required: it looks like a ripoff of this Onion piece. This comes as no shock.
Posted by: Mike Schilling | January 30, 2008 at 02:15 PM
Mike Schilling:
I have to admit it would be refreshing if Jimmy Carter lost it one day and gave a speech like that ..... and then took off his cartigan and threw it across the room.
Posted by: John Thullen | January 30, 2008 at 02:27 PM
Incidently, the words "poontang" (Domenech) and "va-jay-jay" (Erick Erickson's post re. NOW) were both used in the same week at Redstate.
I'm not sure where to go with that, but I think they've stopped using the Bible as a thesaurus over there.
Posted by: John Thullen | January 30, 2008 at 02:34 PM
A Fred Thompson who had the kind of balls it would take to say that would not be the Fred Thompson who has dropped out of the race.
Posted by: Anthony Damiani | January 30, 2008 at 08:29 PM
That is one awesome rant.
Posted by: Fledermaus | January 30, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Cater's I mean.
Posted by: Fledermaus | January 30, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Ah, you've got to love a movement in which one of the most vicious insults you can hurl is to call someone a 'woman.'
And by love I don't mean love.
Posted by: MNPundit | January 31, 2008 at 03:54 AM
Isn't it funny that the one man out of all the candidates that has a monogamous relationship is called a "woman?"
Posted by: Dan | January 31, 2008 at 01:58 PM