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Gee, Quin, Why Don't You Tell Us What You Really Think?

By Robert Stacy McCain on 2.1.09 @ 1:11AM

Quin, your denunciation of "the lickspittle, pathetic, obsequious RNC" is a keeper, a fine specimen of classic Southern invective. An angry Southerner can be a frightening thing to behold. Exactly once in my adult lifetime I made my older brother Kirby genuinely angry, and I pray never to see him angry again.

The all-time championship of enraged Southern rhetoric is still held by Nathan Bedford Forrest, for his famous farewell to Braxton Bragg:

"I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any orders to me, for I will not obey them, and I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you endeavor to inflict upon me... and I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of you life."

The guiding priniciple in such discourse is: If you're going to cut a man, eviscerate him.

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Quin| 2.1.09 @ 11:06AM

Mr. McCain, good sir, you honor me! Thank you so much for your kind words about the quality of my invective. I was hoping that SOMEbody would appreciate it!
:)

Interloper| 2.1.09 @ 9:31PM

There is a person who thanks a neo-Confederate for comparing him to a mass murderer of black soldiers during the Civil War, and, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan? That same person wonders why the GOP has become a Southern regional party? Y'all are really this daft?

Alan Brooks| 2.1.09 @ 10:29PM

interthrooper,
do you know how to make choices?
if you want feelgood then this is not the site. if you want vegetarian fare you don't go to The Texas Beefsteak House, do you?
what sort of masochist are you?

Doug Bandow| 2.2.09 @ 5:42AM

Of course, the difference is that we know Forrest would actually follow through on this threat. I doubt that even Quin intends to commit murder and mayhem at the RNC!

Basil Plumley| 2.2.09 @ 9:18AM

Interloper is the Braxton Bragg of this site. From an historical perspective, you would know that Bragg was an incompetent Confederate general. I doubt they covered that in your anthropology studies curriculum.

Calling folks liars and racists without one scintilla of evidence to back up any charges. You lack integrity.
It would not surprise me if your life's goal was to become a human shield for Hamas.