tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post113160644461082715..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Another Deserving LoserHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1131660132084218302005-11-10T17:02:00.000-05:002005-11-10T17:02:00.000-05:00I liked Arlington Road. I think it reflects the l...I liked Arlington Road. I think it reflects the left-wing feeling of impotence in the face of an advancing conservative movement post-Reagan, post-1994. After all, the good liberal academic ends up screwed and the bad righty gets away.Hunter Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1131648311243390162005-11-10T13:45:00.000-05:002005-11-10T13:45:00.000-05:00Yes, the High Fidelity role was good and I have se...Yes, the High Fidelity role was good and I have seen him do that elsewhere as well - show the good side of a right-winger or the absurd side of a lefty. <BR/><BR/>But his most chilling turn as a right-winger was in that wonderful flick, Arlington Road.Jay D. Homnickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14714671338316275833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1131646146458885822005-11-10T13:09:00.000-05:002005-11-10T13:09:00.000-05:00I see you ranting on politics at a podium now and ...<I>I see you ranting on politics at a podium now and then on TV and my eyes glaze over, Tim, but regardless, you'll always get a fair hearing from me.</I><BR/><BR/>I've seen and heard Robbins ranting as well. I just can't quite take it at face value, though. Not after his brilliant, pitch-perfect portrayal of the ponytailed conflict-resolving herbal tea granola boy, Ian Raymond, in <A HREF="http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0146882/6" REL="nofollow">High Fidelity.</A> He couldn't have pulled that off if he didn't have some small capacity for self-mockery, a capacity I do not sense is shared by his extremely tiresome wife.Kathy Hutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851875819094837357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1131632545623502142005-11-10T09:22:00.000-05:002005-11-10T09:22:00.000-05:00Here's one more reason Kilgore is dumb...he allowe...Here's one more reason Kilgore is dumb...he allowed Kaine to play up his religious convictions.<BR/><BR/>I believe that Kaine is a Catholic, which provides ample 'religious' cover for being against the death penalty. The religious conservatives who are pro-death penalty will have a lot more respect for oppposition on those grounds than your typical liberal (who rc's perceive have no respect for justice or deterrence).<BR/><BR/>Kaine gets to satisfy his base on the issue, while seeming more moderate to the undecideds. He doesn't have to thump his chest about his religious convictions, only mention them in response to questions.Matt Huismanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09972662349345412127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1131630495147889072005-11-10T08:48:00.000-05:002005-11-10T08:48:00.000-05:00The Hitler ad was just one of many Kilgore campaig...The Hitler ad was just one of many Kilgore campaign brain flushes. And it was completely unnecessary, because they have a perfectly good, locally and chronologically relevant, Super Bad Guy to use as an argument: John Allen Muhammad, the infamous Beltway Sniper, who has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia. The debate on which jurisdiction would try him first turned in part on the extreme infrequency of execution in Maryland. (At the time of the sniper crimes, Maryland had a moratorium on executions, which has since been lifted; only 9 people have been executed in Maryland in the past 50 years.) It would have been a perfectly legitimate hook for a campaign issue. Instead he uses Nazis.Kathy Hutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11851875819094837357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1131626203523690832005-11-10T07:36:00.000-05:002005-11-10T07:36:00.000-05:00Here's what an evil conservative I am: I saw Robb...Here's what an evil conservative I am: I saw Robbins' film "Bob Roberts" about a perfectly awful religious, gun-nut, right-winger who also happened to be a musician and still sing some of the songs in my head.<BR/><BR/>The one I remember most goes like this:<BR/><BR/>Some will work.<BR/>Others will not.<BR/>But they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.Hunter Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.com