Speaking of Ike…
Tommywonk’s current post from Denver reminds us how far partisan zealots like Dave Burris have driven the Republican party away from it’s historic brand ID.
Several Republicans will step up to the podium tonight, including former Iowa congressman Jim Leach, who recently retired as director of Harvard’s Institute for Politics. I had a chance to talk with him and E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post last night. Leach, who wears a red sweater even in August, contrasted the current adventurism of Bush and Cheney with the sense of restraint that prevailed during Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency. He pointed out that Eisenhower deployed the 101st Airborne only once in his eight years—and that was to Little Rock, Arkansas when nine black students enrolled at Central High School.
hey…HEY! You’re going to say “…speaking of IKE” for a post, but not give your inspiration for it, aside from Tommywonk’s entry?! You bastard (I can never say that term enough)!
BTW, if you dealt with some of the people that I see, you would no longer consider Dave a partisan zealot. Partisan, maybe, but definitely not a zealot.
Pssst….I had to put his name in the post to get the comments up to my quota.
Don’t tell anyone.
True that. I still feel dissed, tho. Bastard. (/whisper)
Link, bitch! Link! I’m too lazy to type tommywonk.com in my browser!
I don’t know, J. Looks like you may have tapped that golden egg once too often. This comment only makes #6 of the thread.
Oh well. For a non-stereotypical comment from a DP’er (aka: FSP’er), here’s part of the Ike connection.