"We gotta stay the course"

[quinnox]

I'm tired of this lame talking point that all the repubs are using.

When I hear this I think of a train rumbling towards a collapsed bridge with the driver saying we have to stay the course when there is another track available that leads safely away from the bridge.

They should ask them "Even if the course leads to going over a cliff?"

[mike_c]

1. only "peace with honor" will do....

"Staying the course" is the latest incarnation of a very tired old meme....

[Jacobin]

2. "Light at the end of the tunnel"

Thirty years ago does not seem that long to me. Ya don't even have to read a history book to know it, unless you are quite young.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. How about "Peace with Honor"? Any bets we'll be hearing that one

soon?

[Jacobin]

11. That'll be after "we can't afford to lose"

Also, waiting to hear the new and improved "domino theory"

:eyes:

[meow mix]

4. but but, were achieving so much good!!

"and the liberal media is only reporting the negative, for political reasons.. which is treasonous."

constantly hearing this..
the capacity freepy pigs have for self-delusion is just incredible.
they should be locked up and recieve medical help (for thier own good)

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. As someone (whitehouse.org?) put it

"Don't change horsemen in the middle of the apocalypse"

[Mz Pip]

6. That's a good one.

Reminds me of the old Nixon one: "Don't change Dicks in the middle of a screw."

MzPip
:dem:

[Jacobin]

12. LMAO

ooooh boy, I GOTTA remember that one.

Thanks for that. I'm still chuckling.

[Cleita]

7. The ship of fools? That's the only course they seem to be on.

What a lame phrase, as if they had any direction in mind.

[trof]

8. Wavering in War Can Do Good

A friend sent me this LTTE from the Lakeland Gazette:

President Bush says, "We must not waver." For many years we did not waver in Vietnam and we ran into a big black wall. It lists the names of service men and women who died in that conflict. How is it that the foreign ventures of ours do not work out as we hope they will?

REV. HOMER SPENCER

Lakeland, FL

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Stay the course. A 1000 points of "light?"

[mopaul]

10. 'by god, we kicked that vietnam syndrome once & for all'

said daddybush, after the first bushwar

[Jacobin]

13. I'll bet he wishes he could take that one back

Also bet he wishes he had practiced coitus interruptus on a certain occassion. I know I do.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. This brings up a broader issue.

Grenada, Panama, Haiti, GW1. These are the wars that incrementally brought deathless war back to America. These wars would erase the generational scars of the Vietnam era. These wars would allow American hegemony to reassert itself. Twenty years of waiting to unleash our new and improved sanitary muscles. Enter Chimp.