Farley goes with Conan:
Posted by binky at November 8, 2006 09:26 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Pure Unadulterated Snark
What is Best in Life?
The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair?
Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
hallelujah.
(i wanted to insert a link to a photo of santorum's daughter crying next to the podium from last night, a photo a friend posted elsewhere, but i can't link to that or find the photo at any of the mainstream sources (said friend's comment on the photo: "glad to have done my part to make this little girl cry").)
Posted by: moon at November 8, 2006 10:29 AM | PERMALINKha! wow liberals hate children of conservatives. thats sad. im sure santorum wouldnt laugh when your daughter cries. its understandable though, winning this election must feel like the first time for dems.
Posted by: at November 8, 2006 01:22 PM | PERMALINKi'd have my government provide health care for, quite literally, millions of children republicans can't be bothered to deal with. i'd have my government provide care for the children of the poor so that they can trust that their children will be gainfully occupied while the parents go off to work for minimum wage (which i, but not the GOP, would set high enough to confer some dignity on people who work harder than most of us can imagine in thankless jobs).
the fleeting sadness of the children of a man who will either go on to run for governor or president or take on a six- or seven-figure position in "consulting," of children who were shamelessly exploited by their father in a shameless campaign ploy to buoy his foundering campaign . . . while i certainly don't revel in their pain, i don't consider them terribly unfortunate, either.
really, no one who thinks congress deserved over a dozen raises (due to "cost of living adjustments," of course) that they declined to share with poor wage earners (what?: did their costs of living not go up in that same timeframe?) can possibly criticize anyone for not caring about children.
nice try, though.
Posted by: moon at November 8, 2006 02:39 PM | PERMALINKI actually disagree with moon, and think it was pretty callous for Santorum to trot his kids out there like that.
Posted by: binky at November 8, 2006 02:48 PM | PERMALINKyou? disagree with me? just out of curiosity, which part? i'm sort of confused. ;-)
Posted by: moon at November 8, 2006 02:52 PM | PERMALINKLinking to photos of his kid crying, and quoting the person who was glad to be a part of it.
Posted by: binky at November 8, 2006 02:57 PM | PERMALINKoh well, fair enough.
too bad she gets caught up as a consequence of him putting his kids in play like i've never seen before.
using kids as campaign ad props? commonplace.
having them saying something banal like "we love our daddy" or something pithy about the family? ordinary.
having your barely literate children go on the radio en masse to explain, in words they can't possibly understand, how unfair democrats are for asking questions about PA footing the bill for internet education for kids who basically live in suburban virginia? that's just pathetic.
he's done far more to mortify his children than anyone else ever could.
still, though, you're right, that mine was a cheap shot, and nothing santorum's done changes that.
to the little girl, i apologize.
to [blank], i still say the GOP, and you to the extent you support it, have questionable credibility at best on caring about truly unfortunate children; and the santorums don't qualify.
Posted by: moon at November 8, 2006 03:09 PM | PERMALINKWell, I think it's daddy who ought to apologize, but, you know, we're the enablers and all that.
Posted by: binky at November 8, 2006 05:35 PM | PERMALINK