Paul Begala fails to mince words...

[EarlG]

From http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/begala-calls-republican-donors-dirtbags-2008-06-30.html">The Hill:

Begala, who worked for Bill Clinton in the White House, discussed the annual Republican President's Dinner in an e-mail to supporters that seeks to raise funds for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).

"You should have seen the joint: wall to wall fat-cats. The limos were lined up around the block. If you'd stood in the middle of the ballroom and yelled, 'Hey dirtbag!' a thousand necks would have snapped around," Begala wrote.

(snip)

Republicans cried foul over the e-mail, saying it was "over the line," and hit back at Begala and the Democrats.

Begala's response:

"The Bush Republicans questioned the courage of a hero like Max Cleland. They besmirched the war heroism of John Kerry. They smeared Bill Clinton, savaged Hillary, attacked Sen. Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Howard Dean," he said. "But when I call their fat-cat funders 'dirtbags,' they cry like babies. They are wimpy, whiny wussies."

He added, "They are going to take their beating and like it, because this Democrat believes in fighting back."

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

1. Bwhaha! Begala can now mouth off; he's got nothing to lose. I love it!

Leave 'em fumin'! :thumbsup:

[VP505]

2. "They are going to take their beating and like it, because this Democrat believes in fighting back."

Well said Mr Begala, I suspect that the "wimpy, whiny wussies" will be crying a lot louder before it ends in November.

[Politicub]

23. The GOP are, "wimpy, whiny wussies!"

Love it!! :)

[samsingh]

52. conservatives are winny crybabies - they can dish out but

can take nothing.

oh - and they're assholes.

[samsingh]

53. conservatives are winny crybabies - they can dish out but

can take nothing.

oh - and they're assholes.

[calimary]

86. You can say that again!

:toast:

oh - and they're assholes!

[samsingh]

87. pieces of shit

[calimary]

89. Yeah? Well you can say THAT again, too!

I will join you! Pieces of shit!

BTW - did you see the latest from Paul Begala? His email today features his apology - to dirt! :rofl:

(snip)

Apparently, it didn't take long for the "Grand Oil Party" to come unglued. After I called their fat-cat funders a bunch of dirtbags in my email to you on Sunday, they started squealing like a pig stuck under a gate.

House Republicans are crying so hard over my "dirtbag" comment, you'd think they just found out they were forced to spend the Fourth of July quail-hunting with Dick Cheney.

So I want to take a minute to do something I don't do often enough: apologize. I am very sorry for calling those fat-cat plutocrat Republicans "dirtbags." Doing so was grossly unfair. To bags of dirt. After all, dirt is good. Things grow from the dirt. I myself raise tomatoes and corn and pumpkins, jalapenos and cucumbers and lettuce - all from the good earth.

No, it was too kind, too generous to call them dirtbags. Probably better to call them oilbags or toxic-waste-bags or chemical-pollutant-bags. So I'm sorry.

Nice to see! I couldn't agree more!

I'd add "shitbags" to his email, myself.

[supernova]

3. LOL! Go on w/ your bad self, Paul

:thumbsup: :D

[spanone]

4. yes fucking yes

[butterfly77]

5. I like to watch when he...

smacks the republiCONS..

[alfredo]

6. We need more fighting Dems.

[pleah]

7. It is about bloody time someone started saying it like it is.

Go Paul go! Show those whiny wussies whose boss! :rofl:

[Joe Chi Minh]

83. I'm tempted to say, "What was good enough for Christ" is good enough for Democrats.

Well, that's an exaggeration, of course, but he certainly used to call it exactly as he saw it in his dealings with the Pharisees. So, there's a place for righteous anger, all right.

[Beaverhausen]

8. "wimpy, whiny wussies"

love it! :rofl:

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

9. Nice, the "3 W's"

[TahitiNut]

14. Eight years of experience seeing what begins with "W" is showing.

:evilgrin:

[CatWoman]

10. K&R

:kick:

and a nice, loud :rofl: to top it off :)

[1776Forever]

11. All Right Now! I like it - Want some more of it!!!!!

Yeah!

Begala:yourock: :headbang: :yourock: :headbang: :yourock: :headbang:

[Divine Discontent]

49. I want more, too!

it is GREAT to see Begala actually do this - I could feel he was a strong DEM but sometimes he didn't say what was about to come out - this time he doesn't hold ANYthing back - it's so true - "a 1,000 necks turn" - love it!

New Obama Items weekly! www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[KoKo]

12. Of the two...Begala, Carville....I always felt Begala was the truer Dem...

whatever that means these days....whatever that means...

[TheDebbieDee]

13. Cliff Schecter is another "smart-a$$" dem that I like to hear from!

Although, I can't recall him saying anything funny for several weeks now.......

[gratuitous]

15. More like this, please

Not every Democrat is running for office (though practically every one that is should have high expectations for November), and those that aren't shouldn't feel like they have to pull any punches. Watch the Republicans swoon dead away when Begala calls them dirtbags and fatcats, and go positively bananas when Wesley Clark says that McCain's experience of riding in a jet and getting shot down hardly qualifies as executive experience.

The more they hyperventilate, the more effective what was just said. Bet on it.

[Neshanic]

16. NICE!

[Canuckistanian]

17. This is one "failure" I can agree with!

:rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

18. Over the line? The GOP said that?

:rofl:

The crayyyyzeeeees :D

Way to go Paul!!

[tavalon]

65. Well, they would know.

After all, over the line, smear politics is all they really know. It's about time they got some of their own medicine.

[mike_c]

19. that gets a rec....

What refreshingly good news. Reports of a spine detection!

[lonestarnot]

20. Fuck yeah!

woot! :applause:

[Triana]

21. The author of the article: Jackie Kucinich?

Any relation to Dennis? Just wonderin'

[TahitiNut]

38. Yup. That's his daughter.

Shirley MacLaine is her godmother.

Daughter: Jacqueline Kucinich ("Jackie", reporter)

http://www.nndb.com/people/763/000024691/

[Triana]

43. Well, that's cool! Heh. n/t

[TahitiNut]

47. Yup. Interesting gene pool, methinks.

I think I'd enjoy knowing them or having them as neighbors. (No, I'm not inclined to "have a beer" with folks as some bizarre litmus test. It's more about trust and integrity.)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. love it = k&R

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

24. Excuse me, Mr. Begala!

But...just what are you trying to say? Spit it out. Don't mumble.

Perhaps he should give this Saturday's radio response? Just a thought.

[grannylib]

25. That's freakin' great. They ARE pussies, always have been. They

LOVE dishing out shit but whimper like tiny children when anyone so much as looks at them cross-eyed.

Go fuck yourself, morans. Waaaaahhhhhh.

[DCKit]

48. Never met a bully who didn't turn into a total "sissy" when hit back.

It's going to be a fine summer and fall if this keeps up, to any extent.

Next up: The Depraved Sexual Habits of Republicans - Is anyone safe? -- or -- Why you should lock up your sons, daughters, wives, husbands, pets and farm animals.

[rambler_american]

63. PMPLOL

pissing my pants laughing out loud. It's an old man thing. You old guys know what I'm talking about.

:rofl: :spray:

[tavalon]

66. Yeah, it's all going to be fun and games until the Bush Cabal decides

to bomb an American city to win another trifecta.

[Razoor]

26. always have liked listening to Begala

I still miss the days on cnn watching crossfire with begala and carville smacking around carlson and novakula.

[tom_paine]

27. Nice one, Paul! Keep FIGHTING!

:toast:

[mdmc]

28. what fighting words!

:eyes:

The sad thing is that is what a 'fighting dem' looks like

[Swamp Rat]

29. Word!

:D

[Iwillnevergiveup]

30. K&R

Well said - Begala comes out with some real zingers every now and again.:applause:

[riverdeep]

31. If only we had a Speaker of the House like that.

"You're going to take your beating and you're going to like it!"

instead it's

"More cucumber sandwiches Mr. President?"

[Rex]

32. GOPers won't push the 'brand' anymore, too fucking embarrassed

to be a Rethuglican nowadays. That is unless you are hanging out in a den of thieves. Then they just go apeshit crazy.

Begala gets the last laugh IMO.

[PassingFair]

33. He took plenty of swipes at Howard Dean himself....

he must make himself relevant in a post-Clinton
Democratic Party.

[mitchum]

36. Exactly, I'm glad that someone else can see through his transparent and craven hustling

[nachoproblem]

34. Bleeding-heart conservatives!

It's about time somebody called them a bunch of whiny corporation-huggers!

:headbang:

[George II]

35. Best line I've read on the internet in 10 years:

"If you'd stood in the middle of the ballroom and yelled, 'Hey dirtbag!' a thousand necks would have snapped around,"

:rofl:

[BeatleBoot]

37. "I'll Make Mincemeat Out of That Mouse!"

[UTUSN]

39. GO, Paul!1 n/t

[dweller]

40. the problem is, Paul, that until

i see Max Cleland back-handed-smacking back, or John Kerry getting in a Repug's face, or Bill C. standing them down, with Hillary yielding a frying pan behind him for back-up, and Harry Reid in trunks w/ gloves, and Levin, Leahy and Webb weilding blackjacks, with Biden, Boxer and Dodd and Durbin head butting them w/ pocket Constitutions, and Robert Byrd in the background in a toga, smiling, egging them on, and then while i'm at it, i want to see Feingold and Dorgan and Harkin with lances, Akaka and Inouye in full Samuarai, Whitehouse graphing it all in 8'x 10' Powerpoint, and Bernie Sanders w/ Joe LIEberman in a full headlock... but until i see that,

you're just a skinny white dude w/ a soapbox. Easy for you to say, but who and where is your backup?


i hear more fighting words from Kucinich and Wexler. And Steph Miller, Ed Schultz and Randi Rhodes.
depends on whether your audience is the people, or the privileged, i guess.
dp

[no limit]

41. Noice.

[Seldona]

42. He added, "They are going to take their beating and like it,

because this Democrat believes in fighting back."





:yourock:

[BurtWorm]

44. Ok. That's not bad. That's a start.

:applause:

[calimary]

45. And so does THIS Democrat! I am NOT bound by any nice talk from my candidate

OR any directive from him about how we've all gotta talk nice about john mcsame. NOT ON YOUR LIFE!!!!

Sorry, Barack. I REFUSE to take your pledge. Wesley Clark was CORRECT. He said what NEEDS to be said. And we should all get behind him with bells on and reinforce that message! And yeah, the republi-CONS ARE dirtbags. For what they did to Max Cleland, for what they did to John Kerry, for what they did to Bill Clinton, what they've done to Hillary, what they've done to Michelle AND Barack Obama so far, and they're just getting warmed up. NONE OF THEM will be taking that pledge. As a matter of fact, john mcsame can make those simpering, smarmy statements about how his campaign won't fight dirty all he wants, because he KNOWS he can be confident that all the dirty work and more WILL be done by others once or twice removed from him and his campaign (um... yeah, like campaign INSIDER charlie black?!?!?!?!?!), and the surrogates will wallow in the shit so he can keep his hands clean. He knows this. BANK on it. He can blather all the live-long day about how he's going to take the high road because he knows he's got an army of dirty tricksters willing, ready, able, and even desperately eager to take the lowest of the low roads.

Dear Senator Obama, I WILL BE TAKING THAT LOW ROAD. As low as it comes. And I will be enjoying every minute of it, with whipped cream and a cherry on top. You can keep your hands and your rhetoric as clean as you like. I will happily do some of the dirty work! As long as we're working against the mud-wrestlers, we better have our own mud-wrestling squad ready to go, too. When they calm down and fight fair, I will also. But not unless or until. As long as they throw mud, so will I. And I'll be aiming high AND low. john mcsame is NO sacred cow. Nor is his Vietnam war record. If Kerry's was fodder for smearing, so is mcsame's. If those schmucks try to put it out there, they damn well better be ready to swallow what's going to come flying back at them, hopefully from as many quarters and partisans as possible. Including ME.

And by the way, Begala's experience just underscores how dirtbag bullies operate. They can dish it out alright, but they sure can't take it. And I think a little taste of their own medicine is just what they need. Turnabout's fair play. They'll get as good as they give. And as long as they're gonna sling shit, I'll be slinging it back, directly. And with GUSTO!

[rucognizant]

62. RIGHT ON CALIMARY!

Only one thing amiss in this story.
I doubt if you shouted dirtbag in a Repig gathering , that heads would turn. They DON"T self identify as "dirtbags".
Thye would think he meant someone else!

[Joe Chi Minh]

82. I expect he meant that there would still be plenty who were demons in human form,

(well, "humanoid" form), who were not congenital pyschopaths.

Instead, their consciences had become so hardened for so long, that they had become adaptive psychopaths. And if they'd heard that voice hollering "dirtbag" in the middle of the ballroom, from a deeper level of their crass worldly consciousness, they would have heard a little voice whispering, "Yes it's you he's addressing.... Dirtbag...."

[CoffeeCat]

46. It's so true...they are wimpy, whiny wussies...

I used to get so mad at our Democrats for apologizing to the Republicans--every time the Democrats unleash a zinger that speaks
the truth to these neocon assholes.

However, what does that say about the neocons--when they demand an apology every time someone speaks the truth about them?

"You! You! You take that back! Say I'm sorry, now!!"

These thugs are some of the biggest bubble-blowing babies, ever!

[Spiffarino]

50. Too bad there aren't more like him

Today's Democrats...at least the ones in power...are spineless wimps who would have bent over backward to apologize for this "outrage."

Begala is setting the stage for the Democrats. I only pray they won't trip over the curtain yet again as they take it.

[Lugnut]

51. Wow!

K&R

[EFerrari]

54. I've never liked that man as much as I do right now.

:rofl:

[Occulus]

55. THIS is the kind of response I've been talking about.

We need to shut these people up by pushing their buttons and then shouting them right the frak down. They are not to be listened to, they are not to be tolerated, they are not to be trusted, and they are not to be granted respect (they've lost that, and need to earn it back- if they can).

Not one iota, at all. They have had their chance to prove themselves, for the past seven+ years, and they have failed. Miserably, utterly, and deeply failed.

We don't need to give them a seat at the table. We don't need to talk to them and work things out. We don't need to "reach around across the aisle." We. need. to. punish. them.

Hard.

Severely.

With extreme prejudice. <-- in the judicial sense

And we need to start doing it now.

[Skittles]

56. now THAT'S the way to do it

you go, Paul, and teach the Democrats HOW TO FIGHT BACK :thumbsup:

[Zodiak]

57. You feel that tingle? Feel how exciting it is to hear these words?

This is what energizing the base feels like, and it can be rather powerful. The pukes do it at every opportunity, and it wins elections.

We need more of this, from EVERY Democrat. It will win us elections across the country. You call a rose a rose, a duck a duck, a Republican millionaire a scumbag, and a neocon a traitor because that is what they are.

[Hekate]

58. Well, go get 'em Paul!

:evilgrin:

Hekate

[Leopolds Ghost]

59. Niiiice!

[Monk06]

60. The repugs have overplayed their hand this time. They have almost succeeded in destroying

the US in terms of economic, military and moral
influence. The world is turning its back on BUSHCO
AMERIKA. You can almost hear the sigh of relief.

[rambler_american]

64. Yeah, but

they have also succeeded beyond our wildest dreams in destroying the republic party, or at least putting it on the DL for the foreseeable future. That's the best thing in the bush legacy.

[hokies4ever]

61. Nice!

Absolutely hilarious! :rofl:

[TexasObserver]

67. "But when I call their fat-cat funders 'dirtbags,' they cry like babies."

That's the story of the GOP bad asses. They're all paper tigers who can't take a punch.

[Brewman_Jax]

68. Here a number they can call

1-800-555-WAAH for the WAAHmbulance. :rofl:

If they have a problem with Begala, they're going to have a long summer. Go Paul! :yourock:

[Bake]

69. DUers are a fickle bunch

It wasn't that long ago that many, many DUers thought Begala was a dirtbag, GOPher, DINO, Puke Lite, enabler, traitor, spineless, etc. Now he says something you like and he's a hero again.

Begala's always been just fine in my book.

Next week it will be Carville ...

Bake

[redqueen]

71. Hate the sin not the sinner.

When he does wrong, we gripe.

When he does right, we praise.

Not too complicated really.

[redqueen]

70. !

:wow:

When did he get all fire and brimstone?

I like!

[ExPatLeftist]

72. HELL YEAH K&R nt.

[question everything]

73. That's because they know that we take the high road

while they are the ones with the dirty tricks.

[WatchWhatISay]

74. John Stewart taught him a lesson

And I applaud him for learning it.

[libodem]

75. Woo Hoo

Baby-:woohoo: Begala's got it goin' on!

[THX1138]

76. Wow

Surprised to hear this from Begala but props to him for finally getting it. He even stood up for Howard Dean. :wow:

[robertpaulsen]

77. "I'm ripping your head off right now. It's off, and now I'm throwing it at your body."

"Fuck you!"

[Zambero]

78. This belongs in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 Sequel

GWB would likely say it best next time he addresses the GOP's deep-pocketed supporters in some closed-to-media fundraiser: "Some people call you dirtbags, I call you my base!". Now that the GOP has redefined "elitist" as applying to Democrats only, the original F911 clip will need a slight modification. Yesterday's Elitists, tomorrow's Dirtbags!

[progressoid]

79. It's about time Paul!

[fascisthunter]

80. now that's how you WIN!

[Plucketeer]

81. Kick 'em while they're down, Paul!

Show them some of their own brand of compassion! :grr:

[stranger81]

84. We should be responding like this EVERY damn time . . . . k&r [n/t]

[Orsino]

85. When did Begala start believing in fighting back?

Or is he simply mistaking strong words aimed at no one in particular for "fighting"?

[Cleita]

88. I think I'm not impressed.

When Begala could have made a difference, he preferred to wallow in the Washington, D. C. hot tub.