Here's how to deal with the "Don't change horses in midstream" meme.

[barbaraann]

Our Bush horse bolted on its own into a raging river and we will drown with it if we stay in the saddle. We need to let John Kerry and his crew rescue us with his swift boat and take us back to safety!

What do you think?

on edit: changed raging stream to raging river

[aquart]

1. Raging river, not stream. Love it.

[barbaraann]

3. We aren't in a stream, are we?

It's like that horse has taken us into a river fifty feet over flood stage.

[CornField]

2. Would it be violent to point out

that cowboys, when faced with a horse that couldn't perform, would shoot it?

[barbaraann]

5. That reminds me of the movie "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"

From amazon:

"In the dark years of the 1930s, dance marathons became popular as a way for desperate people to compete for prize money. Sometimes the events would drag on for weeks as contestants pushed themselves far beyond the point of physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion, the dancers shambling around the floor in a half-dead stupor. People would then pay to sit in the bleachers, watch the event, and cheer on their favorites. They Shoot Horses is taken from hard-boiled pulp writer Horace McCoy's novel of the same name; Jane Fonda plays a bitter young woman paired up with Michael Sarrazin for the ordeal. Gig Young portrays the unctuous MC of the event, bringing equal parts compassion and sleaze to his role. Many of the film's images are unforgettable, such as "the derby," a heel-and-toe race around the dance floor with bouncy, lighthearted music to accompany the miserable spectacle. It's a powerful, tragic period piece that reminds us of the privations of the Great Depression. In the largest sense, the film has existential overtones that go far beyond the story of enervated dancers staying on their feet for a month or more. This film brought home a string of Academy Award nominations for the cast and director Sydney Pollack and a win for Young. --Jerry Renshaw --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition."

With Bush at the helm, we seem to be headed back to times like this.

[ParanoidPat]

4. Don't you mean, "You don't change horsemen.....

.....in the middle of an Apocalypse"? :evilgrin:

[barbaraann]

7. Oh, that's good!

much pithier, as O'Reilly would say. :evilgrin:

[fob]

6. Don't change horses in midstream...

of quicksand?

Did you notice the horse you rode into the stream on is a bloated, dead carcass?

It's not the horse we wanna change, it's the cowboy riding it that's the problem!

[barbaraann]

8. or the middle of a quagmire...

n/t

[Mike Niendorff]

9. best answer I've heard:

"... unless the horse is drowning. And the stream is on fire."

:)


MDN

[mzmolly]

10. How bout ... when a horse is ill, he has to be put down permanently

;)

[Jacobin]

11. Ya mean: "Don't change horsemen in the middle of an Apocolypse?

That's what I tell them

:-)

[Artemis Bunyon]

12. The horse is drowning. Kerry is reaching down to get you on the Swiftboat.

x

[Cat Atomic]

13. Don't change horsemen before your train has set sail.

I believe that's how George would put it.

[JHB]

14. When your horse will only go deeper into the swamp...YES!

n/t

[TahitiNut]

15. It was a dead horse when we climbed on. Time to stop beating it.

Send Bush/Cheney to the glue factory. (It's now in China.)

[barbaraann]

16. There are some great ideas here!

I hope someone from the Kerry campaign sees them.

[Cronus Protagonist]

17. Don't flog a dead horse. Get a new one.

[MrBenchley]

18. When someone says stay the course, I ask what the course is...

Here's a quick thumbnail of how the course has zigged and zagged from catastrophe to disaster, with a quick stop at tragic farce...

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_09/004763.php

Helluva cakewalk so far, isn't it?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A1996-2002Feb12?language=printer