Two for One today.
“It was almost inconceivable that they would be so bitter in defeat that they would tacitly deliver their own supporters to a conservative Republican incumbent, instead of at least trying to rally them behind the candidate of their own party…but this is what they have done…”
“A career politician finally smelling the White House is not much different from a bull elk in the rut. He will stop ad nothing, trashing anything that gets in his way, and anything he can’t handle personally he will hire out–or, failing that, make a deal.”
-Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72
“Some people will say that words like ’scum’ and ‘rotten’ are wrong for Objective Journalism - which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.”
“With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such things as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.”
-Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
“There are only two ways to make it in big-time politics today: one is to come on like a big mean dinosaur, with a high-powered machine that scares the shit out of your entrenched opposition…and the other is to tap the massive, frustrated energies of a mainly young, disillusioned electorate that has long since abandoned the idea that we all have a duty to vote.”
-Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail
