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T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII
Whether McCain wins or loses, I suspect - hope- that IowaHawk's skewering
of the Chris Buckley-George Will, Newport Snob-wing of the
effete-right, signals a post election, Palin-led deck
clearing. Raw-thur, eh wot?
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When
my late father T. Coddington Van Voorhees VI founded the iconoclastic
conservative journal National Topsider in 1948, he famously declared
that "Now is the time for all good conservative helmsmen to hoist the
mizzen, pour the cocktails, and steer this damned schooner hard
starboard." In the 60 years since he first uttered it after
one-too-many Cosmopolitans at one of Pamela Harriman's notorious
foreign policy black tie balls, father's pithy bon mot has served as a
rallying cry for conservatives from Greenwich to Chevy Chase. Today, I
say it's time for we conservatives to once again grab the rigging and
set sail with the flotilla of the true conservative in this race:
Barack Obama.
Trust me, I haven't taken this tack lightly. No Van Voorhees has
supported an avowed socialist since
great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great
grandpapa Cragmont Van Voorhees lent Peter Minuet $24 and a sack of
wampum to swing a subprime mortgage on Manhattan Island. Old dad
himself often recounted how, as a lad, he would command the family
chauffeur Carleton to drive the Duesenberg down to the Times Square
Trans-Lux so he could hiss Roosevelt. But I've taken a good measure of
this Obama fellow, and I must say I like the cut of the man's jib.
How can I say this, you ask? One look at this Obama chap is all the
answer you need. Suave, tanned, unflappable, Harvard connections; it's
obvious that here is a man to the conservative manor born. [cont]
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