y'know who used the idiotic phrase 'stay the course'? daddybush

[mopaul]

so jr. is just using daddy's old worn out platitude to continue daddy's old worn out plan to take over the middle east.

[Earth_First]

1. As much as I tend to agree...

NOTHING * says is unscripted by his puppeteers. We've all seen the good (comical) and the bad side of * when he decideds to speak on his "own."

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Reagan used it too!

So that's how long that TIRED SHIT has been around! Stay the Course = Stay the Intercourse = GOP will F??K YOU in a Heartbeat.

Edit...STAY ON THE COURSE?

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Staying the course can be a VERY large blunder.

Too bad Bush don't, or can't, read the papers and the books!

[hwmnbn]

3. I always considered it an elitist phrase....

It brought visions Biff and Muffy telling the "help" on their sailboat or yacht to keep going straight.

[tsuki]

4. You know where I heard the phrase,

"Cut off your nose to spite your face?" My Mother.

[KG]

5. heck, i don't even have to leave DU to hear the 'stay the course' meme

:eyes:

[KharmaTrain]

6. It's Right Up There With "Islamofascist"

I'm still trying to figure what the hell that is. Supposedly this is some great "worldwide conspiracy"...replacing the reds under your beds with guys actually wearing bed sheets. Maybe we should encourage Repugnicans to start double-speaking...that way we can get the truth every now and then out of them...

[tx_dem41]

7. According to this source, the phrase has been common since 1916..

as a political phrase.

http://www.word-detective.com/060704.html

[bornskeptic]

9. It goes back farther than Bush 41.

LBJ used the phrase frequently with regard to Vietnam. Here's one example.

WASHINGTON -- Bush officials bristle at the suggestion the war in Iraq might look anything like Vietnam. Yet, as today's war protests recall yesteryear, President Bush's own words echo those of President Johnson in 1967, a pivotal year for the United States in Vietnam.

"America is committed to the defense of South Vietnam until an honorable peace can be negotiated," Johnson told the Tennessee Legislature on March 15, 1967. Despite the obstacles to victory, the president said, "We shall stay the course."
http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0509/26/A06-327474.htm

That's about as far as my memory stretches, but according to this
http://www.word-detective.com/060704.html
it was used long before that.

"To stay the course" is often thought to be a nautical metaphor, and one can easily imagine a stalwart captain instructing a wavering helmsman to "Stay the course!" in the face of a stormy sea.

But the first use of the phrase in print, in 1885, comes from another sort of "course," the racetrack. "To stay the course" in this sense referred to the ability of a horse to endure the race and reach the finish line, preferably in a winning position. By 1916, however, the phrase had been adopted by politicians, and we've been urged to "stay the course" ever since.

[raccoon]

10. Seems like St. Ronnie used it. nt

[lonestarnot]

11. and poppy bushitler got it from Barney! Sniff Sniff... same old bullshit!

[deminks]

12. Stay What Course? (photo)

One of the great pics from yesterday:



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/051130/480/mdgb10111301957

A protester stands with a sign that reads ' Stay what course?' as one of the presidential helicopters arrives Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005 in Baltimore, Md. President Bush who earlier delivered a speech at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis on his war policy arrived in Baltimore for a fundraiser for Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a republican candidate who is running for the Senate. (AP Photo/Gail Burton) Email Photo Print Photo