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Message: <blockquote data-quote="weeds" data-source="post: 808146" data-attributes="member: 39">I knew that it was a William Safire penned quote that Spiro latched onto. Safire was one of my favorites that NOBODY heard of until they shed the invisibility cloak of the political "speech writer". The alliteration of it all ... I loved this one as well - "They have formed their own 4-H Club — the ‘hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'” quoted in the link. That's the thing, Republican speech writers' have been vastly superior to this type of zinger ...that, and "the 10-word answer".Strange bedfellows guys... I used to follow William Safire's stuff to balance out my other best guy - Sydney Harris. Who I had the pleasure of meeting and sitting down to a barge-in lunch date arranged by a former college girlfriend who was from Door County and worked at the bank Mr. Harris used up there. This was right after returning from a D.C. internship in Oshkosh during the Reagan years. Mr. Harris felt I needed to be deprogrammed. As the old saying goes - "Good writers borrow from other writers. GREAT writers ... well ... just outright STEAL from other writers". <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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