i don't want to end up as the latest "east coast elite" blogger piling on poor mike hucklebuckle but i just have to highlight this latest bombshell from zev chafets' NYT magazine take-down:
"Six weeks ago, I met Huckabee for lunch at an Olive Garden restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. (I had offered to take him anywhere he wanted and then vetoed his first choice, T.G.I. Friday’s.)"
did your jaw drop? yes, i know, the real bombshell is supposed to be his don't-mormons-think-jesus-and-satan-are-brothers pander to the evangelical base, but that kind of lightweight theological wrangling is very boring - it's "turtles all the way down" as far as i'm concerned, folks.
(olive) garden-gate, though - there's an issue i can really get behind. as this post's title suggests, i fear a candidate's dining habits really are a litmus test. for someone to be offered a meal anywhere in the food capital of the country and then to settle on olive garden, especially after the host had to veto your first choice, shows me a tremendous neophobia. is this surprising, that a southern theocrat conservative is also a neophobe? of course not - it's to be expected. and i'm not demanding that my candidate end up out in queens eating dosas or curried innards or in chinatown eating those scary orange cuttlefish - i'm not naive enough to ask for my candidate to be an atheist, either. but c'mon - olive garden? he's lost my vote!
oh, and if i had more readers i'm sure some wag would point out that the war criminal kissinger had a very good palate. and yes, i'd rather not have someone like him with his finger on the button. but i'd let him pick where to eat if we were going out for dinner.
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It's all about making safe choices, ain't it? Profess to be a Christian, sex for repo only, some of my best friends are ____ and I love to eat ethnic at Olive Garden. Next he will say that he trusts the energy industries to solve the climate change and energy shortage challenges. But you know what is sad ... who among all of the 30 some candidates would you want to eat out with? Even Dennis probably just consumes calories.
Yer pop ... who actually thinks that corporate Olive Garden makes great pasta e fagioli.
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