Do you have a JK addiction?

[whometense]

Poll question: Do you have a JK addiction?

Hi, I'm whometense, and I've got a serious JK addiction.

I thought it was dormant until today. I admit I've been cranky and tired lately, but I thought it was due to lack of sleep.

But after hearing JK twice on the radio today in the space of a half hour, I was smiling, had a bounce in my step, and came home and cleaned out two closets.

This is ridiculous. There are a number of other politicians I admire and respect, but I'm addicted to the sound of only JK's voice.

[WildEyedLiberal]

1. I think the fact that I was torn between options 3 and 4...

... speaks for itself. :evilgrin:

[whometense]

2. I still haven't voted,

myself, because I am still swooning. :evilgrin:

[karynnj]

3. Don't know if addiction is the right word,

but like you hearing Kerry speak (or seeing him speak) does relieve some of the frustration with seeing so many things going totally wrong. Maybe the fact that he can calmly articulate how bad things are and then suggest his reasonable alternatives makes me thankful that he cares enough to continue trying to lead. He makes things less hopeless.

And like Franken said he is an American hero.

[whometense]

5. I do think his reasonableness

and intelligence are amplified greatly by the dimwits and liars that are paraded before us in the media day after day. Hearing Kerry after then is like sunshine and fresh air.

I saw Chris Matthews interview suck up to Sen. Sack-of-Hammers last night. Behold the sheer idiocy:

MATTHEWS: You know, I think you're going to end up being, later on, the biggest challenger to John McCain for the Republican nomination for president in 2008. I think it's going to come down to you two guys and you'll be the voice of the regular conservative Republican party and McCain will be the maverick, trying to pretend he's Bush's best friend. Do you think that might turn out to be that way?

ALLEN: Who knows? Who knows, Chris? I don't follow it that closely. John is a good friend, I call him a commodore. I'm friends with him. We don't agree on every issue, but I admire him a great deal.

MATTHEWS: You call yourself a common sense Jeffersonian conservative.

What is that?

ALLEN: It means I trust free people and free enterprise. I don't like limits, I don't like restrictions on people. I think they ought to be only limited by their own hard work, ingenuity, imagination and their character.

I many times will reference back to Mr. Jefferson's 1801 inaugural address where he defined the sum of good government as a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, but otherwise leave them free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and that the government should not take from the mouths of labor, the bread they have earned. And I think that is still the sum of good government today.

MATTHEWS: Where would Jefferson be on gay marriage? It sounds like he's a libertarian.

ALLEN: He's a libertarian, but I think he understands the important foundational aspects of our society and that marriage should be between a man and a woman. I think Mr. Jefferson would be stunned that they would have anything other than between a man and a woman.

Jefferson on gay marriage? Talk about intellectual bankruptcy...

[Island Blue]

6. Does Sen. Dumb Ass realize that Jefferson is dead?

ALLEN: He's a libertarian, but I think he understands the important foundational aspects of our society and that marriage should be between a man and a woman. I think Mr. Jefferson would be stunned that they would have anything other than between a man and a woman.

Also, considering some of Mr. Jefferson's own non-marital relations, it's doubtful that he would give much of a shit what anyone else was doing in their private life.

And he calls McCain a "commodore"? Republicans are so strange.


Help me! I need a JK fix!

[whometense]

8. :rofl:

"Does Sen. Dumb Ass realize that Jefferson is dead?"

You know, I'm not sure he does...

[karynnj]

12. It's hard to tell who is dumber in that exchange

When I got to Allen's "not putting restrictions on people" - I was hoping that he would then ask Allen his view on gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality ... Asking about Jefferson turns it to a moot point - I doubt anything exists in writing. (Jefferson didn't challange his own society to marry Sally H.)

He calls McCain, Comodore??? Why? (Does he call Warner that too? Kerry?)

Kerry's always present intelligence, and the thought that automatically goes into his answers. He also seems to respect the person he is speaking to (the listener and the interviewer), but doesn't pander.

[JohnKleeb]

14. Ive never heard about his relationships with Kerry and John Warner

Yeah thats true, who's dumber him or Matthews. I am telling you guys, Allen would be worse than Bush because at least Bush pretends to be tolerant of minorities, did anyone see the thread by the DUer who went to high school with him? Man I wish more and more he had challenged my congressman Frank Wolf in a primary and had his political career ruined because he planned to bully Wolf who I am not a huge fan of but isn't nearly as slimy as Allen.

[Luftmensch067]

4. Number Three, Baby!

Because I KNOW I'm not the only one. :-):loveya:

[ProSense]

7. His voice

is sexy, even when he speaking wonk. :evilgrin:

[whometense]

9. You're so right.

:evilgrin: :loveya:

[ginnyinWI]

10. I've been noticing the symptoms in this whole group lately!

Too many Senate recesses lately--and we've all been getting a bit cranky, eh? It's hard to survive on low "rations". Although Teddy in the cmte Monday did make me feel that grownups were still at work!

Still, it was very reassuring to hear The Voice today. :)

[Mass]

11. Definitively - If I do not hear his voice for a while, I become cranky.

Even reading his press releases does not have the same effect, though it is good too.

(a glance at his hazel eyes too).

:loveya:

[whometense]

13. Ah, yes...

Hearing him (and seeing him) just makes everything easier to take. :loveya:

[sandnsea]

15. It does have that affect

I noticed the same thing today. His voice is slightly hypnotic, strong and relaxing and reassuring, all at the same time. I don't necessarily flip to every hearing and all of that anymore, but hearing him today really lifted my spirits. I remember why I used to stay up late, get up early, flip to every hearing...

[wisteria]

16. I'll admit it, I need my JK fix, preferably every day.

I am just so much more reasonable and calm once I get it. Actually, I think there are a lot of closeted JK addicts that secretly long to hear or see him rationally take on the hard issues facing us today, and look good doing it too.