Posted By Russ Emerson on May 24, 2005 at 12:41 pm
I hate getting older.
I was going to refrain from commenting on the fact that today is the anniversary of my birth, but I figure that at the very least, I can take the opportunity this day affords to thank my Mom for bringing me into the world. I wish my Dad was still around so I could thank him, too.
Thanks, Mom, for everything.
I hate getting older, but it’s better than the alternative.
Posted By Russ Emerson on May 23, 2005 at 9:16 pm
To: Senator McCain
From: a GOP voter
I don’t care how long you spent shackled in a cell in a Vietnamese prison camp. You have now burned up every bit of goodwill your wartime sacrifices might have engendered, and are now operating on a “GOP-karma” deficit.
If this nation should ever be so unfortunate as to have you on the presidential ticket, I will almost certainly vote against you.
No one who spends as much time aggrandizing himself and preening for the media at the expense of the party and principles which got him into office as you do deserves the support of the party or the people who adhere to those principles. No one who so obviously craves attention and acclaim deserves either.
Do your party and its voters a favor, and retire from public life.
Update: Patterico is on the same track. Ace, too.