GOP Reaches Back.
Steve Forbes? Is that the guy with those strange buggy eyes that thought being related to a rich family meant that he could be President?
The magazine publisher and one-time presidential candidate will make a visit to some familiar territory when he comes to Wilmington’s Hotel du Pont on April 7 to accept the fourth annual Pete du Pont Individual Freedom Award.
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At the dinner, he will be joined by former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont, himself a former Republican candidate for president, and the namesake of the award, sponsored by the Delaware Republican Party.The party says the award “recognizes an accomplished world citizen who, like Pete du Pont, has demonstrated a life-long leadership commitment to the cause of preserving and enhancing individual freedoms.”
Past recipients include commentator George Will, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and one-time Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich, who delivered a speech Tuesday in Newark.
Ok. This Individual Freedom Award has all the feel of the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence. It just sounds like it was made up as an excuse to hold a dinner or fundraiser and honor someone so that his name stays in the news. But what is the GOP honoring again? What has Steve Forbes done to advance individual freedom? Does publishing a magazine about the rich qualify as advancing individual freedom? Perhaps Mr. Forbes has done something of which I am not aware, like rescuing a village in Africa from genocide, or stood up for individual freedom by protesting and speaking out against the infringement on our civil liberties under the Patriot Act.
Perhaps this years proceeds will go toward the “Free Celia Cohen” fund.
It sounds like Forbes is in good company with failed presidential candidates. Will’s the only outlier, but he’s a fact-challenged columnist.
I guess to these types, Individual Freedom means having the ability to purchase a yacht…sans financing, of course! 🙂
“Is that the guy with those strange buggy eyes that thought being related to a rich family meant that he could be President? ”
Wasn’t that John Kerry?
To the Forbes, the Kerrys and Heinzs are plebes.
Plus, John Kerry didn’t have strange buggy eyes. His annoying feature was the way he stuck out his tongue and licked his lips when talking.
when will all these fuckers finally Go Gault so we can get on with our lives?
Individual Freedom Award – Is that like the “Watermelon of Doom?”
‘Individual Freedom’….Ha! What nerve…..like establishing usuary rates that would make a mafia don jealous? Like putting millions of Americans in ‘economic prison’ (like the ‘Poor Houses’ of old) with their credit card debt?
Thanks Pete, old chap. You are marvelous, simply marvelous. I love it when rich folks pat each other on the back while helping to reduce the size of the American Dream for the rest of us.
Guilianni and Individual Freedom what a joke Guilianni’s a thug