Wrestling . . . ewww.
That said, that’s me. Boxing assaults my senses, too. Being free to deviate to your own drummer is basic to Liberty, yes?
CLEARLY, millions upon millions upon millions of sports and/or teevee enthusiasts differ with me on the Compelling Quotient of wrestling. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it even back in high school. It looked so . . . gay. And those COSTUMES. Seriously, enough to make you avert your eyes. Like a guy older than, oh, about THREE years old who wears a bikini and who is not in/shortly in/freshly out of water in which he rigorously competes in SOMETHING the performance of which is inarguably enhanced by wearing that eye-averting garment.
Different strokes for different folks. That’s what Liberty is all about, when you get right down to it.
CAN we get right down to it? Can I just go ahead and speak my mind, without continually editing myself so as not to offend the politically correct Milquetoasts or alert the politically INcorrect Surveillance Specialists? I don’t often have cause to quote Joan Rivers but, CAN WE TALK?
I applaud your U.S. Senate run, representing Connecticut. Scratch that — think, WRESTLING. I hoot and holler and boo-yah your run for United States Senator (R – CT). The only thing that would inspire me to jump up on my seat and mug for the camera would be if you changed your party affiliation to No Affiliation. UNAFFILIATED is a good thing. INDEPENDENCE is a good thing.
Longtime Senator Christopher Dodd, Chairman of the BANKING, HOUSING and URBAN DEVELOPMENT Committee, is up to his eyeballs in alligators with the manmade disaster that is oh-so-conveniently labeled an Economic Crisis. Euphemisms R Us. He and Barney Frank, both. Up. To. Their. Eyeballs. To my way of thinking, BOTH of them should be relieved of their offices, stripped of their pensions and banned from politics. From Finance, too, for good measure.
LOVE the kicker that Christopher Dodd, as a VIP Friend of racketeer Anthony Mozillo of Countrywide notoriety, got a preferential home loan . . . AND claims to be unaware of any special terms. A BANKING Chairman unaware of the terms of his loan? CORRUPT OR STOOPID, take yer pick.
The word on the little-s street is that your Opponents will endeavor to discredit you principally on three grounds:
1.) You are throwing a wrench in the spokes of the The Machine by, gasp, taking your own risks with money out of your own coffers. Not that they word it exactly like that.
2.) Wrestling is crass and undignified. Ergo, you and your family are crass and undignified, which renders you unsuited to American politics. Crass and undignified simply wouldn’t DO in American Politics. Corrupt and unethical, a-okay, but crass and undignified? Outta the question. We’ll leave Sarah Palin out of this for the moment.
3.) You have donated to both the Democratic and Republican National Committees. Because your opponents want “their” guy to win, this is suddenly not the the much-heralded Bipartisanship that is supposedly coming into fashion but, rather, duplicitous and self-serving bet-hedging. You can’t please all the people all the time, and no good deed will go unpunished.
It is my ardent hope that you will approach this campaign and your opposition in the spirit of Jeannie Riley’s, “The Day My Mama Socked It To The Harper Valley PTA” and Bomshel’s “Fight Like A Girl.”
1.) No small part of our Trouble is owing to High Flyers playing fast and loose with Other People’s Money. How dare ANYONE talk about ANYONE spending their own money, after Barack Obama conducted the costliest, lengthiest campaign in our nation’s history, on anyone and everyone’s money but his own. American Politics are NOTHING if not Big Business. Competitors ALWAYS criticize the competition. The best way to do a thing is the way that works. Full control. Beholden to no one. RIGHT ON.
I compare your take-your-own-risks-and-owe-no-one approach with Peter Schiff’s methodology. Though he ALSO has a personal fortune, he wheedled a million bucks out of people with LESS money, in order to “talk him into” running. Come to think of it, there IS no comparison. The very idea of people of greater means milking people of lesser means for money to “explore” taking a risk with Other People’s Money is just all kindsa screwed up. And then, THEN, he encourages his clients to invest in China while encouraging constituents to invest in HIM for U.S. Senate. That’s even more messed up.
Savvy investing is a passive thing. Big Business is hands-on. America doesn’t need more fancy pants Financiers and Market Gurus. America needs American Ingenuity, to be sure, but not in the guise of Passive Investors. Good ideas make money materialize, not the other way around. America needs American Ingenuity of the get-er-done Producer variety. America needs leaders who know how to control costs, coordinate policies, organize systems, motivate and herd people . . . that has GROUNDBREAKING CEO written all over it.
HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO AMERICA. MAKE AMERICANS LOOK AT THE PURCHASE OF THEIR PRESIDENCY. MAKE AMERICANS LOOK AT THEIR OWN LUST AFFAIR WITH MONEY. BE NOT AFRAID TO CALL THE KETTLE WROUGHT IRON. BUT DO BE AFRAID TO CALL THE KETTLE BLACK, ‘CUZ THEN THEY’LL CALL YOU A RACIST.
2.) Wrestling IS crass and undignified, in my book. So are enemas and catheters and bed pans. So are many computer games and movies and television shows. Dance Your Ass Off! Puh-lease. And just ‘cuz American Politicians flatter each other by referring to themselves as DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUES, and just ‘cuz American People flatter each other with Political Correctness, doesn’t mean that American Politics aren’t crass and undignified. They are. In spades. Ask anyone but the people who are employed in or addicted to American Politics.
They will attack your husband for whatever they’ll attack him for — Inferior Character is popular amongst the build-em-up-to-knock-em-down crowd. How could he DO that to his daughter. You point right to Bill Clinton — how could he DO that to his daughter? Compare choreographed stunts with clandestine trysts.
The Clintons have sold themselves as a 2-for-1 special. Really? Bill Clinton solicits money from foreign governments while his wife acts as our Secretary of State. Conflict of interest, anyone? Your family is All American by comparison.
Your philanthropic record is stellar. How generous are Chris Dodd and Peter Schiff? I mean, with their OWN money.
HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO AMERICA. MAKE AMERICANS LOOK AT THE DEPRAVITY OF THEIR RUBBER NECKING AND THE UNTHINKINGNESS OF THEIR STAR WORSHIP AND THEIR CRAVING OF SHOWMANSHIP AND THEIR TOLERANCE LEVELS FOR VIOLENCE AND, AGAIN, THEIR LUST AFFAIR WITH MONEY.
3.) A child can see that Republicans and Democrats are the flip side of the same coin that is being changed in the temple of Governance — read that, man’s lordship over man. Anyone with half a brain and a fraction of a heart can see that the acclaimed Political Process is littered with self-serving, egotistical, opportunistic charlatans. Anyone who commits to straight party line is either an Extremist or a Simpleton. I will argue that we already have more than enough of those represented.
Currying favor or supporting both parties, however you want to spin it, is SMART. Anyone who says you aren’t smart is, in a word, Stupid. You CLEARLY have your hand on America’s pulse and you are CLEARLY a superlative businesswoman. How many Sitting Senators and Savvy Financiers can say THAT?
