Post by Moses on Dec 4, 2004 15:52:18 GMT -5
Warner is apparently the DLC choice for the next revolting candidate. I did not know that he was Chris Dodd's congressional aid and made his fortune the Cheney way. And what is with Chris Dodd and all his database legislation? Anyway, this is hilarious, until you get to the part about why this blue dog opposes him.
Warner's White House adventure
The Valley Blue Dog Democrat
Steven Sisson
ValleyBlueDog@aol.com
Have you heard about the series of mysterious loud booms that began in Richmond Election Day, Nov. 2, and have continued since?
There are a lot of theories for the booms, such as the military, mischief and mollycoddle ...
Yes, Governor Mollycoddle.
Here's my Blue Dog big boom theory. After reading those Mark Warner for president in '08 news articles and seeing the Warner presidential Web sites blossom in the wake of John Kerry's defeat at the polls, our boyish-acting governor has been experiencing a run of head explosions due to his somewhat overinflated political ego.
Is this a case of the Richmond boom turned bust?
The idea of Warner for prez ... come on folks, are you kidding me?
But within the pages of Richmond and Washington newspapers for the past month, I've been reading more and more opinion editorials suggesting Mark Warner as the possible Democratic candidate for president in 2008.
There is a mathematical buzz surrounding him: Blue Governor + Red State = White House.
Wishful-thinking citizens of the Commonwealth are predicting that two Virginians might battle for the presidency in 2008, with George Allen as the eventual GOP nominee pitted against possible Democratic nominee Mark Warner.
It's "The Mouthpiece vs. "The Mollycoddle."
But the Blue Dog believes "The Mouthpiece" is better positioned for that presidential role.
On Mark Warner's behalf, there have been Democratic testimonials by well-wishers and promised assistance from supporters across the Commonwealth.
These twisted Democrats are pretty doggone serious about backing Warner for president in 2008.
Warner is being promoted as a potential Democratic candidate to bring back fiscal conservative and effectively melded liberal to moderate social values with our party.
But the Blue Dog thought Warner called Kerry the best candidate to bring back "fiscal sanity to our nation's capital."
Hey folks! There's this even this guy named Steve (not to be confused with Steven, the AFP Valley Blue Dog) who has created a fan club-like Internet journal.
It's a growing blogger Web site to promote and draft Mark Warner for president in 2008
Not to mention that it's a rather sickening, puppy-love display of Democratic affection.
There are actually two Web sites dedicated to the Warner for prez love-fest:
- Mark Warner in 2008! warner2008.blogspot.com/.
- Mark Warner for President 2008 warner2008.blogspot.com/.
The marketing of Warner for president has appeared on Internet pages with buttons, signs and bumper stickers.
Expect Warner to take the reins of the Democratic National Committee or Democratic Leadership Council in the interim period and employ the same strategic formula he did in the Commonwealth as the state chairman of the Democratic Party.
Soon after the just-completed election coverage, Mark Warner's name, to some degree, had been spread through the major media outlets as a possible presidential candidate.
The message is ... Gov. Warner is the salvation for the Democratic Party because he has connected with rural Virginia voters and can do it for the rest of the nation.
Warner's fan club membership is solely comprised of younger, high-tech liberal members of the Democrat Party of Virginia, insulated in the urban-congested areas of the state, such as Arlington, Alexandria, Charlottesville and Richmond.
Their counterparts, younger conservative Republicans, have for years said the more liberal Democrats are nothing more than indoctrinated socialists.
As well as victims of their environment, who have been sthingy-fed on government programs while residing in those insulated, liberal bastions.
These youthful individuals are often callous and immodest intellectuals when it comes to their bizarro world premise and perspective concerning life in rural Virginia.
As Ambrose Bierce defines the adjectives callous and immodest in The Devil's Dictionary:
- Callous (adj.): Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
- Immodest (adj.): Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of the worth in others.
Most liberal-minded Democrats will never admit those bitter facts.
Oh, those young self-righteous elitists (with absolutely no real life experiences, other than watching MTV's "The Real World" and nightly news with Dan Rather on CBS).
Urban liberal youths of Virginia, we salute you - and sincerely thank you!
Yes, thank you so much for saving us from our hillbilly, rural conservative selves.
<br>Memories like the corner of my mind
The mission of the Internet blogs is to promote a future President Warner - as the last fiscally conservative and social moderate existing in the Democratic Party today.
A Warner blogger writes, "Overall, in my opinion, Governor Mark Warner has the potential to be the Ronald Reagan of the Democratic Party and bring the Democratic Party from its near-death status."
There was a time in the 1990s, when the Blue Dog would have been saying "heck yeah" and "yee haw" to that exaggerated statement.
In 2004, the Blue Dog would say that political spin is simply nothing more than a cow producing methane gas.
Whew, that statement sinks to high heaven!
Warner likened to Ronald Wilson Reagan ... now that's preposterous to say the least.
But as for the Democratic near-death status scenario that our party leadership tiptoes around and never addresses - that's right on the money.
(Warning: First, restrain yourself from laughing at the troublesome times. You can thrust your tongue into your cheek -- aka tongue in cheek Democratic humor.)
As a friend recently said ... is it time to dust off the Whigs? <br>
In 2001, the Blue Dog had that ugly orange Sportsmen for Warner billboard sign posted in the front lawn of his yard, and I will admit to working hard for Warner's campaigns to the U.S. Senate and Virginia governor's office, just like any good Virginia Democrat would have.
And I probably would have argued the merits of Mark Warner's vast cellular empire if called upon to do so.
As a loyal Democrat, I couldn't blame him for being rich.
In the 1980s, Mark Warner worked as a U.S. Senate staff member for Connecticut's Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, and gained knowledge of federal telecommunications policies, which later morphed into an impressive $200 million fortune.
Yes, most Democrats would say once upon-a-time Democratic staff member Warner was nothing more than the-kid-next-door that got extremely lucky with a regional bid for cellular phone franchise licenses.
He low-balled the regional bid, and got rich on a random, politically motivated hunch.
Umm ... (clear throat) ... that's the America way?
In 1996, Warner invested $4.7 million of his cellular fortune into the U.S. Senate campaign against moderate Republican Sen. John Warner.
Millionaire venture capitalist Mark Warner has more than proved he is willing to throw his money around to become an elected official in Virginia.
For several years, Warner barnstormed the high-tech, urban regions of the state promoting the development of technological skills to cope in the computer age
Using his outsized bank account, he campaigned across Virginia's rural landscape (twice in less than five years) visiting NASCAR races, passing out blaze orange Sportsman For Warner bumper stickers and tapping his foot to country music while eating corn dogs, fried chicken and apple fritters.
He was a regular speaker at the annual Rockingham-Harrisonburg Labor Day dinners.
The fact that the Northern Virginia millionaire, who dressed in fancy designer suits, didn't arrive in a pickup truck with a gun rack in the window accompanied with vehicle sticker -such as Jesus Saves, the National Rifle Association emblem or racing legend Dale Earnhardt's No. 3 - didn't seem to bother me at the time.
In spite of everything perceived as logical political thinking, Democrats say in the past 30-years America has only elected two Democratic presidents - Jimmy Carter of Georgia and Bill Clinton of Arkansas - and those fellows were past governors of Southern states. And now, the Virginia governor, Mr. Mark Warner, is the next Southern Democratic Moses.
Three years after being elected, Warner and his staff are thoroughly convinced they have befuddled us dumb ol' rednecks (including myself) in rural Virginia and the rest of the nation.
Warner's sycophants say he's not a tax-and-spend Democrat - and claim he is a fiscal conservative even though he historically increased taxes.
In an extreme makeover, Warner is the new and improved Southern version of Bubba - aka Clinton - but without all that extra moral baggage.
That worked for a while ... but with age, also comes wisdom.
Because mostly poorer, rural Virginians are paying higher taxes thanks to Mr. Warner, and, don't forget, pro-tax Republican members of the General Assembly.
The current campaign to promote Warner as the next presidential wannabe is nothing more than a calculated, coordinated effort to fool us again, don't y'all agree?
The Blue Dog wouldn't put that past him.
After all, the governor has played the public-relations game before - and has mastered the art of deception with the liberal media as his ally.
(continued)
Warner's White House adventure
The Valley Blue Dog Democrat
Steven Sisson
ValleyBlueDog@aol.com
Have you heard about the series of mysterious loud booms that began in Richmond Election Day, Nov. 2, and have continued since?
There are a lot of theories for the booms, such as the military, mischief and mollycoddle ...
Yes, Governor Mollycoddle.
Here's my Blue Dog big boom theory. After reading those Mark Warner for president in '08 news articles and seeing the Warner presidential Web sites blossom in the wake of John Kerry's defeat at the polls, our boyish-acting governor has been experiencing a run of head explosions due to his somewhat overinflated political ego.
Is this a case of the Richmond boom turned bust?
The idea of Warner for prez ... come on folks, are you kidding me?
But within the pages of Richmond and Washington newspapers for the past month, I've been reading more and more opinion editorials suggesting Mark Warner as the possible Democratic candidate for president in 2008.
There is a mathematical buzz surrounding him: Blue Governor + Red State = White House.
Wishful-thinking citizens of the Commonwealth are predicting that two Virginians might battle for the presidency in 2008, with George Allen as the eventual GOP nominee pitted against possible Democratic nominee Mark Warner.
It's "The Mouthpiece vs. "The Mollycoddle."
But the Blue Dog believes "The Mouthpiece" is better positioned for that presidential role.
On Mark Warner's behalf, there have been Democratic testimonials by well-wishers and promised assistance from supporters across the Commonwealth.
These twisted Democrats are pretty doggone serious about backing Warner for president in 2008.
Warner is being promoted as a potential Democratic candidate to bring back fiscal conservative and effectively melded liberal to moderate social values with our party.
But the Blue Dog thought Warner called Kerry the best candidate to bring back "fiscal sanity to our nation's capital."
Hey folks! There's this even this guy named Steve (not to be confused with Steven, the AFP Valley Blue Dog) who has created a fan club-like Internet journal.
It's a growing blogger Web site to promote and draft Mark Warner for president in 2008
Not to mention that it's a rather sickening, puppy-love display of Democratic affection.
There are actually two Web sites dedicated to the Warner for prez love-fest:
- Mark Warner in 2008! warner2008.blogspot.com/.
- Mark Warner for President 2008 warner2008.blogspot.com/.
The marketing of Warner for president has appeared on Internet pages with buttons, signs and bumper stickers.
Expect Warner to take the reins of the Democratic National Committee or Democratic Leadership Council in the interim period and employ the same strategic formula he did in the Commonwealth as the state chairman of the Democratic Party.
Soon after the just-completed election coverage, Mark Warner's name, to some degree, had been spread through the major media outlets as a possible presidential candidate.
The message is ... Gov. Warner is the salvation for the Democratic Party because he has connected with rural Virginia voters and can do it for the rest of the nation.
Warner's fan club membership is solely comprised of younger, high-tech liberal members of the Democrat Party of Virginia, insulated in the urban-congested areas of the state, such as Arlington, Alexandria, Charlottesville and Richmond.
Their counterparts, younger conservative Republicans, have for years said the more liberal Democrats are nothing more than indoctrinated socialists.
As well as victims of their environment, who have been sthingy-fed on government programs while residing in those insulated, liberal bastions.
These youthful individuals are often callous and immodest intellectuals when it comes to their bizarro world premise and perspective concerning life in rural Virginia.
As Ambrose Bierce defines the adjectives callous and immodest in The Devil's Dictionary:
- Callous (adj.): Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
- Immodest (adj.): Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of the worth in others.
Most liberal-minded Democrats will never admit those bitter facts.
Oh, those young self-righteous elitists (with absolutely no real life experiences, other than watching MTV's "The Real World" and nightly news with Dan Rather on CBS).
Urban liberal youths of Virginia, we salute you - and sincerely thank you!
Yes, thank you so much for saving us from our hillbilly, rural conservative selves.
<br>Memories like the corner of my mind
The mission of the Internet blogs is to promote a future President Warner - as the last fiscally conservative and social moderate existing in the Democratic Party today.
A Warner blogger writes, "Overall, in my opinion, Governor Mark Warner has the potential to be the Ronald Reagan of the Democratic Party and bring the Democratic Party from its near-death status."
There was a time in the 1990s, when the Blue Dog would have been saying "heck yeah" and "yee haw" to that exaggerated statement.
In 2004, the Blue Dog would say that political spin is simply nothing more than a cow producing methane gas.
Whew, that statement sinks to high heaven!
Warner likened to Ronald Wilson Reagan ... now that's preposterous to say the least.
But as for the Democratic near-death status scenario that our party leadership tiptoes around and never addresses - that's right on the money.
(Warning: First, restrain yourself from laughing at the troublesome times. You can thrust your tongue into your cheek -- aka tongue in cheek Democratic humor.)
As a friend recently said ... is it time to dust off the Whigs? <br>
In 2001, the Blue Dog had that ugly orange Sportsmen for Warner billboard sign posted in the front lawn of his yard, and I will admit to working hard for Warner's campaigns to the U.S. Senate and Virginia governor's office, just like any good Virginia Democrat would have.
And I probably would have argued the merits of Mark Warner's vast cellular empire if called upon to do so.
As a loyal Democrat, I couldn't blame him for being rich.
In the 1980s, Mark Warner worked as a U.S. Senate staff member for Connecticut's Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, and gained knowledge of federal telecommunications policies, which later morphed into an impressive $200 million fortune.
Yes, most Democrats would say once upon-a-time Democratic staff member Warner was nothing more than the-kid-next-door that got extremely lucky with a regional bid for cellular phone franchise licenses.
He low-balled the regional bid, and got rich on a random, politically motivated hunch.
Umm ... (clear throat) ... that's the America way?
In 1996, Warner invested $4.7 million of his cellular fortune into the U.S. Senate campaign against moderate Republican Sen. John Warner.
Millionaire venture capitalist Mark Warner has more than proved he is willing to throw his money around to become an elected official in Virginia.
For several years, Warner barnstormed the high-tech, urban regions of the state promoting the development of technological skills to cope in the computer age
Using his outsized bank account, he campaigned across Virginia's rural landscape (twice in less than five years) visiting NASCAR races, passing out blaze orange Sportsman For Warner bumper stickers and tapping his foot to country music while eating corn dogs, fried chicken and apple fritters.
He was a regular speaker at the annual Rockingham-Harrisonburg Labor Day dinners.
The fact that the Northern Virginia millionaire, who dressed in fancy designer suits, didn't arrive in a pickup truck with a gun rack in the window accompanied with vehicle sticker -such as Jesus Saves, the National Rifle Association emblem or racing legend Dale Earnhardt's No. 3 - didn't seem to bother me at the time.
In spite of everything perceived as logical political thinking, Democrats say in the past 30-years America has only elected two Democratic presidents - Jimmy Carter of Georgia and Bill Clinton of Arkansas - and those fellows were past governors of Southern states. And now, the Virginia governor, Mr. Mark Warner, is the next Southern Democratic Moses.
Three years after being elected, Warner and his staff are thoroughly convinced they have befuddled us dumb ol' rednecks (including myself) in rural Virginia and the rest of the nation.
Warner's sycophants say he's not a tax-and-spend Democrat - and claim he is a fiscal conservative even though he historically increased taxes.
In an extreme makeover, Warner is the new and improved Southern version of Bubba - aka Clinton - but without all that extra moral baggage.
That worked for a while ... but with age, also comes wisdom.
Because mostly poorer, rural Virginians are paying higher taxes thanks to Mr. Warner, and, don't forget, pro-tax Republican members of the General Assembly.
The current campaign to promote Warner as the next presidential wannabe is nothing more than a calculated, coordinated effort to fool us again, don't y'all agree?
The Blue Dog wouldn't put that past him.
After all, the governor has played the public-relations game before - and has mastered the art of deception with the liberal media as his ally.
(continued)