Word: morones
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...case, to the Democratic candidate himself, who is off working on merit badges in health care and sizzling monogamy. The word being delivered by Gore's helpers - maliciously, humorously - is that the governor of Texas, the Republican nominee for president of the United States, is "a f------ moron...
Gaily Sheehy in the forthcoming Vanity Fair alleges that Bush suffers from dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. These are disabilities, you know, and (to speak correctly) a special kind of challenge; but (to speak incorrectly) he's still a f------ moron! The New Yorker's back page was devoted last week to a procession of cartoons of Bush entitled "Language Gets the Death Penalty," and quoting some of W.'s more hilarious gaffes ("I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family...
There's a scene in the movie "Analyze This" in which the mob boss's fat bodyguard, Jelly, describes himself, with endearing objectivity, as "a f------ moron." But when the psychiatrist (Billy Crystal) repeats the assessment, telling the goombah frankly that he really is "a f------ moron," Jelly objects...
...genius of this scurrilous political work is that it is being done just at the moment when George W. Bush really is behaving like a f------ moron. His operation is the Original Austin Amateur Hour. Dubya's tractionless, spluttering campaign, belching smoke and throwing rods, seeming to do everything wrong post-Labor Day - arguing idiotically about the debates, for example - seems in itself to dramatize the supposed brain deficit that has been the subject of whispers and eye-rollings for months...
...must say I mistrust the moron ploy. I have been listening to it all my life. Dwight Eisenhower was a moron; Adlai Stevenson was so elegantly articulate, you know, and Eisenhower couldn't even complete a sentence grammatically. And Ronald Reagan, of course, was a complete imbecile. I don't compare W. to Ike or Reagan, who, unlike W., could laugh all the way to the electoral college. But that Manhattan dinner-party smugness - moron jokes as the coup de grace - gives me hives...