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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Strother's Pal Ronnie

Actually, I enjoyed the letter.

Well of course you did. It's an attack on conservative Republicans by a liberal socialist who is pretending to be a Republican. I expect it warmed the cockles of your partisan Democrat heart (spare me the denials, no one believes them anyway).

Steve, so I guess I can assume that you think it's okay to make a campaign promise and then break it?

What campaign promise did the Turpins break? I must have missed that one.

Or maybe I can't, since you really didn't do anything in your response except make personal attacks against Mr. Carroll. Judging from this and various other tirades regarding this man, you obviously have some sort of personal problem with him.

At least my ad hominem is direct as opposed to yours which is vicarious. You seem to take an inordinate amount of glee in seeing Ron Carroll bash the Republican Commissioners.

You can call my comments tirades if you like, but you don't have the history that goes behind the "tirades." Second only to Willis Overby and Buster Robertson, Ron Carroll is the most dishonest, underhanded, fascist political figure in Stokes County and it nearly makes my gums bleed to see the amount of respect he is paid by the County leftists. He has skewered more teachers and done more harm to "public" education in Stokes County than anyone else, including Frank Sells, yet he is defended by the very people he has screwed over repeatedly. It boggles the mind. I suspect most of it is because he remains a Republican and certain forces within the County love to be able to hold up a "Republican" who criticizes other Republicans.

In the last election, the Stokes Democrats had some of their best candidates ever, and they still lost.

If that was their best, then no wonder they lose all the time. You are talking about Stokes County, aren't you? As I recall, it was the same, tired, retreaded socialists that the Stokes County Democrats have been running for years. They have also been using the same tired excuses for years: straight party voting and all. Maybe they should consider the fact that they run the same people with the same outmoded, failed, and tired ideas every cycle.

By the way. Everything in Carroll's letter is classic Buster Robertson. I find it fascinating that Buster says it and it comes out of Ronnie's mouth.

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