Finally, Chris Matthews said something I agree with.
“We love good mayors because we love our cities and Giuliani is the city guy, and I’m so sick of southern guys with ranches running this country. I want a guy to run for president who doesn’t have a fucking — I’m sorry, a ranch. Wouldn’t that be good, Don, a guy who wasn’t on the ranch during Katrina, he was on the street corner answering questions?”- Chris Matthews on Imus in the Morning.
They deleted the f-bomb from the radio but not from the MSNBC simulcast. Maybe Matthews is finally done toying around with Republicanism. He fell in love with Ronald Reagan for some reason that I never quite understood. He seemed to fall for that city-on-a-hill stuff and restoring American greatness or whatever the hell it was that appealed to a lot of guys that started off idolizing Kennedy only to lose faith in the Democrats after the trauma of Vietnam and the wobbly presidency of Jimmy Carter. I hope he is on the way to a complete cure.
My biggest problem with Matthews remains that he lacked the courage of his convictions. He saw his buddy Phil Donahue get knee-capped and he turned into a chicken about opposing this war. He never thought it was a good idea but no sooner than the President declared Mission Accomplished he started singing his praises.
“Everybody sort of likes the president, except for the real whack-jobs, maybe on the left,” adding, “I mean, like him personally.”
I don’t know if Matthews is phony or if he just drifts with the prevailing winds. Is there a difference? I hope, for his sake, that he stays home.
