Chris Matthews is well known for his movie references — at times, they can be interminable.  Before his Gone With The Wind reference last night, he most recently compared Rush Limbaugh to Bond villain Mr. Big, wishing someone would “jam a CO2 pellet in his head[...].”

I’m a bit of a movie buff myself, as it happens; and I happen to be very pro-military.  So here are some movie references for Chris the Wide-Mouth Frog.

First up, my favorite war movie: Saving Private Ryan.  I’ve already written a lot about this for Veterans Day, so I won’t bother to rehash the whole movie.  But I would point out that Chris Matthews’ enemy is all through this clip.

Did you see him, right there at the end, grab Private Ryan by the shirt?  Did you hear him, Matthews’ enemy, demand that Private Ryan live a life worthy of his sacrifice?

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I don’t put a whole lot of stock in the theorizing of a guy who thinks the Republican party should shrink (kick out the conservatives) to grow.  That said, Frum didn’t write this; and if the following is even partially true, the White House deserves to get burned at the political stake for this.

Sean Linnane writes on the FrumForum.com:

Earlier this week, news broke that three Navy SEALs were charged and may be court-martialed for allegedly punching a prisoner.  The prisoner, a high-value target (HVT) was turned over to authorities with a bloody lip.

According to a source of mine — a retired SEAL who like myself still serves in other capacities — the feeling going around the Special Operations community at Fort Bragg is that this latest development is a kneejerk reaction to the situation a couple months ago when SEAL operators rescued Captain Phillips – Captain of the Maersk Alabama – off the coast of Somalia.

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So the word on the street is that this latest development is payback for the SEALs violating the ROE in rescuing the captain of the Maersk Alabama. The Chain of Command is asserting itself, letting everybody know what’s going to happen to you if you don’t follow orders.

Holy crap on a stick.

That has got to be the most craptacular reason for a court-martial ever created; and if it’s even slightly true, I hope it nukes Rahm Emanuel’s career.

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I’ve been watching the media reaction to these White House party-crashing morons with growing irritation.  Here’s why.

These crackpots, who were not on the guest list, were allowed within a hair’s breadth of the President of the United States.  Before this, nobody outside of Faulkier County, VA knew who they were — or cared.  These people, who it appears are slightly less nuts than Balloon Boy’s parents, were able to penetrate Secret Service-run security AT. THE. WHITE HOUSE.

While the President was THERE.

There are dinner knives on the table; pencils don’t set off the metal detectors; al-Qaeda has proven that they can sneak a bomb through high-security checkpoints (it involves plastic explosives and a container known as a “charger”, inserted into the rectal cavity); biological and chemical agents don’t set off the metal detectors either.  Heck, a necktie and a quick movement, people, can kill a man.  Dear lord, I don’t want that to happen.

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I may have seen this suggested here before, but for the life of me I can’t find it.  So if you front-pagers read this, please know I’m not plagarizing intentionally…

We need a plan in place for when we take back Congress.  It’s not enough just to elect conservatives like Marco Rubio, Bob McDonnell, and Jim DeMint.  To take back Congress, we are also going to have to put up with the occasional Mark Kirk and Mike Castle — it’s not as if we can keep them from running, can we?  And they have their place as well - just make sure they get in the right place, that’s the trick.

Here’s what I mean.  If you’re like me, you want Roe v. Wade overturned.  If you’re like me, you want to go a step further, and start chipping away at the foundation for Roe, a decision called Griswold v. Connecticut. The penumbra argument started there, and real progress can only be made in this arena if we start attacking the cornerstones of statism.  So how do we do that sort of thing?

Make sure the Kirks and Castles of the world stay off the Senate Judiciary committee.  Stack Judiciary with DeMints, and we start getting some Scalias, Alitos, and Thomases again.

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…about the military.

I hesitated for about four milliseconds before starting to write this.  You’d think that it would be an unpopular decision to attack Glenn Beck on Redstate.com — it seems a bit out of place.  But he’s gone too far this time, and he needs to be called on it.

Glenn Beck thinks his nephew shouldn’t re-enlist.  By extension, I shouldn’t enlist.  Here’s the video:

Apparently, he thinks that since our Commander in Chief is more concerned with where his next photo-op will be (and how good we military types look in said photo-ops) than with how, exactly, he plans to win the war in Afghanistan, that America is unworthy of my service.

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…especially in the Senate races.

I don’t have a whole ton of time to get this down, so this is going to be a bit quick and dirty.  Here’s my main thought:  How unbelievably politically bad for President Obama would this headline be, E-Day Plus One:

Mark Kirk Wins Obama’s Senate Seat in Shocker

Well, it wouldn’t be nearly as bad as if Kirk picked off Obama’s seat in Illinois, Mike Castle picked off Joe Biden’s seat in Delaware, Rudy Giuliani picked off Hillary Clinton’s seat in New York, and Harry Reid lost in Nevada.

All of which could legitimately happen.

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It was once observed, by a man far smarter than I, that the first thing one gives up in politics is his vocabulary.

I’ve noticed that this is getting more prevalent, of late.  Defining things out of existence is at near-epidemic levels now; from the President’s erasure of the term “war or terror” to the flatly fictitious “deficit reduction” efforts of the Senate health-insurance bill.

The low-hanging fruit here is to bash the President for pulling a full and complete 180 from his campaign rhetoric, and embracing the way Washington works to a level not seen since the days of…well, LBJ.  But that fruit is so old, it’s spawning flies.

The most dangerous molding of political language, however, must be that which labels Islamic terrorism.  I vividly remember the terms used to describe the perpetrators of 9/11:  Terrorists — Islamic terrorists, no less.  This term, however, eventually gave way to a less broad indictment meant to show nuance in one’s thought: “Islamist terrorism.”  This language denoted terrorism that was perpetrated by Wahhabi Muslims — one might guess this term could be useful for differentiating between those acts of terrorism from Muslims and those from non-Muslims.

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To quote one of my favorite speakers (Dinesh D’Souza), “I feel a bit like a mosquito in a nudist colony — where to begin?”

I sit here today, in a bit of physical pain.  My chest, arms, abs, and quads all ache from the beating they took last night.  I had an unreasonable amount of difficulty getting out of bed this morning, not because I was physically tired, but because the muscles used for sitting up apparently suffered some buildup of lactic acid during my exercise regimen yesterday.

You see, I’m in the Air Force Delayed Enlistment Program.  Last night, the DEP ran our PT test (we’re not quite there yet, me included, but we’ll make it by ship date), and then trained for a full hour and a half.  This exercise is nothing, simply nothing, compared to the physical demands of basic training — for this, and many other reasons, I plan to train as hard as I can before I go to basic training.  I want to mitigate as much of the pain as I can.  Oh, and to all you Marines out there: 

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But at least he has a great tan.

Via HotAir.com, Rolling Stone interviewed the Silver Fox earlier this year, and Charlie Crist made it very clear where he stood on the stimulus package:

But when I interviewed Crist this spring for my piece The GOP Jihad, here’s what he told me he’d have done had he had a darn vote:

Rolling Stone: Just a final question: Had you been in the Senate, would you have voted with the other Republicans for the stimulus package?

Crist: Absolutely.

Oh, say it ain’t so, Chuck!

There is simply no possible way to show the true level of my contempt for such a creature as Charlie Crist.  You see, in that article (The GOP Jihad), Crist said the following:

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Jenny Sanford.

Check this out:

Next year South Carolina will elect a new Governor, and what will happen then?

Well, it depends on who we elect.

It would be a real shame if our next Governor chose not to stand up to the big spenders in Columbia who have grown state government so massively in recent years. Or if we had a Governor who was content to allow our 19th Century form of government to continue without accountability or reform. Or someone who would let the education bureaucracy continue to stifle all attempts at adding competition into the public school system.

That’s why I think it is so important that South Carolina elect Nikki Haley as our next Governor.

Read the whole thing here.

Seriously, at this point, I put more stock in Jenny Sanford’s endorsement than I do with her basket-case husband.  And this isn’t your typical quick-hitting form letter.  It’s a thoughtful, complete, lengthy endorsement:

So when I’m asked my wish for South Carolina’s future, my wish is for a leader of state government like Nikki Haley. She’s principled, conservative, tough, and smart.

And it even hits the most important point:

Please go to her website, www.nikkihaley.com to learn more. And please make a financial contribution to her campaign (all of the details for how to make a donation are on the enclosed card and on her website).

Yeah.  After this, I say Jenny Sanford for President — if the Dems can have a superstar woman whose husband is a cad, we can do that much better.  /smirk