3 ફેબ્રુઆરી, 2008

"Not only will I won’t quit, I can’t.”

Not only will I won't make fun of Huckabee talk, I don't want to. I think it's cool... and probably Southern, and I'm guessing Southerners will won't appreciate it.

18 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

Maxine Weiss કહ્યું...

Let's ignore the Superbowl and pretend it doesn't exist.

rhhardin કહ્યું...

“If this were a boxing match, you’re gonna have to completely knock me out and carry me out of the ring because I’m not throwing in the towel. Absolutely not going to leave the ring and I’m going the distance.


He knows about the subjunctive (the Southern subjunctive takes are gonna), but not who throws the towel.

Mortimer Brezny કહ્યું...

I just can't quit you, Huckabee.

campy કહ્યું...

Is you is or is you ain't my candidate?

Cedarford કહ્યું...

If he wasn't a McCain prostitute out to split the religious vote from the conservatives...and ensuring McCain's nomination...I'd consider him charming, too.

As is, if he ends up on a McCain ticket, that is another reason for voting Hillary or Obama in and ensuring McCain/Huck go down as hard as as possible.

Ron કહ્યું...

What we have here is...a failure to communicate!

Synova કહ્યું...

I wish I read that, Campy, before I spent all that time trying to find this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIOmzsiecuA&NR=1

Synova કહ્યું...

Searching with "will I will or will I won't" worked NOT AT ALL.

LOL.

Beth કહ્યું...

He's an educated man, and he knows his grammar. He's code-switching; I do it, too, as a Southerner. Maybe he wants to be underestimated, or appear charming, to do the "aw shucks" routine. I don't know.

Ralph L કહ્યું...

I would that Huck would quit.

What does he mean by "can't"? Contractual agreement with McCain?

George M. Spencer કહ્યું...

He's probably just drunk.

Joe કહ્યું...

The self-delusion of politicians would be charming if it wasn't so damn annoying.

John Stodder કહ્યું...

Watching CSPAN last night, a Huckabee rally, with many of the participants waving signs saying "Us Against Them."

Is that really what Huckabee's all about? Who's "Them?" I was shocked. It's the kind of political sign I would've expected in a Sean Penn movie attacking the Christian right, not actual Christians in an actual presidential rally.

I have a feeling "them" includes Mormons and country club Republicans. So much for the theory that inside every Huckabee voter is a Romney voter crying to get out.

Cedarford કહ્યું...

So much for the theory that inside every Huckabee voter is a Romney voter crying to get out.

Nah. Why vote for a conservative religious heretic doomed to burn in hell when Jayzus offers up good ol' Pastor Huckleberry??

How about the theory that for every religiously bigoted theocrat voting for Huckabee the Republicans lose 3.5 voters in the independent, female moderate, old "Reagan Democrat" ranks otherwise approving of Republicans but scared off by the Fundies?

Freeman Hunt કહ્યું...

That is not Southern!

Dewb કહ્યું...

Yeah, a lot of weird elocutions are acceptable, even treasured, in the South. But that sounds pretty tin even to my ears.

amba કહ્યું...

They say "might could," too. I've kind of involuntarily picked it up.

Beldar કહ્યું...

He might could have said might could another time, but that would be a whole nuther story.

This isn't "Southern." I appreciate your desire not to insult southerners regarding our speech patterns, but ... I kinda sorta think you managed to back asswards into 'zactly that, Prof. A.

Most of us are good-humored about it, though. (Like y'all Yankees don't have any funny things in the way you tawk!)

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