What's up with this love of dueling?

[CatWoman]

I remember Zell Miller (on live TV even) challenging Chris Matthews to a duel.

Now Rand Paul is all full of regret because he can't challenge (Rachel, perhaps) to a duel.

is wrong with these people?

[NightWatcher]

1. They lack proper communication skills and can only retort with violence

or monosyllabic grunts when legitimately criticized.

[CJCRANE]

2. My name is Randigo Montoya...

You called me a plagiarist...

Prepare to...

[beachbum bob]

3. little men speaking big talk they know

can't be done. If I was maddow, I would challenge him on something like a face to face debate on anything. 99% guarantee he would run away from it. Just like hannity running from Big Ed.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. They think they're channeling Aaron Burr????

I've got the novel "Burr" by Gore Vidal. It's pretty good.

is right.

[atreides1]

5. My Opinion

Both Miller and Paul only talk big, because they know it's illegal!

I believe that if it was a viable way to "solve" a problem, both of them would be singing another tune.

[quinnox]

6. There is a history to it

They used to settle debts of honor by dueling at one time. Yea, it is macho bullshit, but it did happen back then.

[PeteSelman]

7. It's an honorable way of settling disputes.

These guys are enamored of that whole Victorian age. It reflects their view on all sorts of issues.

[okaawhatever]

16. Ding Ding we have a winner! Because he's a total wuss a close second....nt

[trumad]

8. Duel---what is this duel you talk about?

[DinahMoeHum]

9. The little head's doing the thinking for the big one. . .

. . .with those people.

[FSogol]

10. Simpletons like simple solutions.

[Coyotl]

11. And when did men start challenging women to duels? Is that a good sign

that the rednecks are succumbing to women's liberation?

[meanit]

12. It's to cement Paul's "patriotic" image

with his delusional, drooling idiot followers. Like he's some kind of "Aaron Burr" or some shit like that.
He'll probably start running around in a white wig soon. What an asshole.

[nolabear]

13. Oh it's the"Hold me back!" mentality.

"If I wasn't such a gentleman...if you weren't smaller/younger/a girl...if it wasn't illegal..." In other words I'm a blowhard.

How about a verbal duel, Sparky? She could beat you with one lip tied behind her back.

[FarCenter]

14. The first Democratic President killed a man in a duel.

The controversy surrounding their marriage remained a sore point for Jackson, who deeply resented attacks on his wife’s honor. By May 1806, Charles Dickinson had published an attack on Jackson in the local newspaper, and it resulted in a written challenge from Jackson to a duel. Since Dickinson was considered an expert shot, Jackson determined it would be best to let Dickinson turn and fire first, hoping that his aim might be spoiled in his quickness; Jackson would wait and take careful aim at Dickinson. Dickinson did fire first, hitting Jackson in the chest. Under the rules of dueling, Dickinson had to remain still as Jackson took aim and shot and killed him. However, the bullet that struck Jackson was so close to his heart that it could never be safely removed. Jackson's behavior in the duel outraged men of honor in Tennessee, who called it a brutal, cold-blooded killing and saddled Jackson with a reputation as a fearful, violent, vengeful man. He became a social outcast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

[Vashta Nerada]

15. Did Rand Paul take a dueling glove and slap it across Rachel Maddow's face?

It's not a duel until that happens.

To answer your question, I have no idea what's with the love of dueling.

[Blue_Tires]

17. A few dogwhistle tweets for the base:

1. Harkens back to a time when America "still did things the right way"

2. Macho bravado (even though it's SO fake, they think this is what being a man is all about)

3. The age-old American tradition of guns, and solving nonviolent disputes with guns

4. All republicans think liberals need to be shot anyways..

[Rex]

18. Nothing, just some really big egos on some really small minded men.

nt.

[okaawhatever]

19. Rachel would totally take him out. I read somewhere she met her girlfriend at a NRA women's day

event. Her father was military so she may have learned young how to handle a weapon, especially if he had them in the house.


I say the challenge can be taken up with a life-like target depicting their likeness. I'd love to see it. Rachel could mop the floor with him but literally and figuratively.

[GreenStormCloud]

22. +1 ! N/T

[GreenStormCloud]

20. They know that dueling is illegal, so it is safe to make the challenge.

If the Code Duello were brought back, they would shut up in a hurry.

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. My '64 Super Sport has duals, I love the sound.

[shraby]

23. They want to go back to the 1800s and therefore use 1800 era terms.

[CatWoman]

24. HAHAHAHAHAHA

Tweety just played the clip of Miller challenging him and says Rand Paul even plagiarized Zell