Peggy Noonan, writing in the Walll Street Journal. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=65000550
quote:
"The one group I know will show up is the group I expect will have the biggest impact on the election's outcome.
And they are the Broken Glass Republicans. So named by Byron York of the American Spectator.
They're called Broken Glass Republicans because that's what they'd walk over to throw the Clinton-Gore administration out. That's what they'd crawl over to remove them from power. That's what they'd crawl over to remove this extraordinary corruption from our national life. That's what we'd crawl over to give Clinton-Gore a rebuke, and remove them from our history.
The BG Republicans want to do something else. They want to prove that we're still a good people--that we're still a good people in a good country, that the Clinton-Gore reality is not representative of who we are.
Someone somewhere along the way will try to capture the sheer propulsive force of the BG's, the size and drive of their emotional and philosophical commitment.
Let me give you two examples that I think speak of or to how we feel, and I say "we" because though normally I see myself as a conservative, these days I'm rooting so much for the BG's that I know I must be one.
Bear with me on the cliché, but my examples are movie images.
The first is from "The Verdict," with Paul Newman. It's near the end of the movie and the gifted actress, Lindsay Crouse is on the stand. She's the working class nurse who knows the secret the hospital is trying to hide: The doctors made a mistake in administering an anesthetic, and that's why the patient was mortally injured. The nurse doesn't want to testify but she does. And she says of the doctors who did the deed and the establishment that protected them, "Who are these people? Who are these people that they could do this thing?"
It's a great heartfelt cry. A decent person looking at organized malevolence and saying: These people are not us.
And that's part of what the BG's think when they look at the long trail of corruption that has been Clintonism: Who are these people?
Another scene, from the movie "Rudy." A popular but not fully appreciated movie of about a dozen years ago about "Rudy" Rutiger, the kid who wanted nothing in life but to play for the Irish of Notre Dame. (It has a wonderful, rousing musical score that they use in a lot of movie commercials. It also has beautiful, tight editing, and first rate acting in the star role by Sean Astin.)
It's the last game of Rudy's senior year, his last chance to be chosen to play. He's suited up, the team is in the field house, they're waiting to go on. It's a home game there in South Bend, and it's a big game, and the coach does the speech.
And he looks at the boys and he says, "No one comes into our house and pushes us around." And the kids begin to clap, and they take to the field, and they win. And Rudy gets in the game.
That's how the BG's feel: No self appointed elite comes into our country and pushes us around, not forever, not without answering. The answer comes Tuesday. And we'll all be in the game.
It is because of the BG's that Clinton-Gore are about to be rebuked. They are about to be chastised. They are about to be rejected. They are about to be ejected.
And this is good. A new beginning, a fresh start, the stables swept clean. New history begins. "
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Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
1 Peter 2:16.
quote:
"The one group I know will show up is the group I expect will have the biggest impact on the election's outcome.
And they are the Broken Glass Republicans. So named by Byron York of the American Spectator.
They're called Broken Glass Republicans because that's what they'd walk over to throw the Clinton-Gore administration out. That's what they'd crawl over to remove them from power. That's what they'd crawl over to remove this extraordinary corruption from our national life. That's what we'd crawl over to give Clinton-Gore a rebuke, and remove them from our history.
The BG Republicans want to do something else. They want to prove that we're still a good people--that we're still a good people in a good country, that the Clinton-Gore reality is not representative of who we are.
Someone somewhere along the way will try to capture the sheer propulsive force of the BG's, the size and drive of their emotional and philosophical commitment.
Let me give you two examples that I think speak of or to how we feel, and I say "we" because though normally I see myself as a conservative, these days I'm rooting so much for the BG's that I know I must be one.
Bear with me on the cliché, but my examples are movie images.
The first is from "The Verdict," with Paul Newman. It's near the end of the movie and the gifted actress, Lindsay Crouse is on the stand. She's the working class nurse who knows the secret the hospital is trying to hide: The doctors made a mistake in administering an anesthetic, and that's why the patient was mortally injured. The nurse doesn't want to testify but she does. And she says of the doctors who did the deed and the establishment that protected them, "Who are these people? Who are these people that they could do this thing?"
It's a great heartfelt cry. A decent person looking at organized malevolence and saying: These people are not us.
And that's part of what the BG's think when they look at the long trail of corruption that has been Clintonism: Who are these people?
Another scene, from the movie "Rudy." A popular but not fully appreciated movie of about a dozen years ago about "Rudy" Rutiger, the kid who wanted nothing in life but to play for the Irish of Notre Dame. (It has a wonderful, rousing musical score that they use in a lot of movie commercials. It also has beautiful, tight editing, and first rate acting in the star role by Sean Astin.)
It's the last game of Rudy's senior year, his last chance to be chosen to play. He's suited up, the team is in the field house, they're waiting to go on. It's a home game there in South Bend, and it's a big game, and the coach does the speech.
And he looks at the boys and he says, "No one comes into our house and pushes us around." And the kids begin to clap, and they take to the field, and they win. And Rudy gets in the game.
That's how the BG's feel: No self appointed elite comes into our country and pushes us around, not forever, not without answering. The answer comes Tuesday. And we'll all be in the game.
It is because of the BG's that Clinton-Gore are about to be rebuked. They are about to be chastised. They are about to be rejected. They are about to be ejected.
And this is good. A new beginning, a fresh start, the stables swept clean. New history begins. "
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Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.
1 Peter 2:16.
