Well...nothing brings us together as a parish at St. Blog like a good ol' fashioned auto-da-fe. (For our twenty-two-year-old-philosophy-majors-being-roasted, auto-da-fe means parish bar-b-que.)  I've spent many a spare moment in the past couple days floating around and reading all the blogs and comments.  I hope Karl Rove is watching, since our latest social gathering sparked a number of witty and hilarious soundbytes. 

As difficult as it is to narrow them down, here's my three favorites:

• "gee, i figure that saddam hussein's track record proves HE is a weapon of mass destruction. . .as are any politicians who vote to keep abortion legal." Smockmomma on Jeff Miller's Curt Jester.
  
  
  
  
  
• "I am not sure that 'unholy sacrament' is inapt [among Democrats, liberals and feminists]. Abortion does seem to be an outward sign of an inward abomination." Zippy over at John da Fiesole's Disputations. While you are there, check out John's brilliant blogs on this subject -- including his Thomistic treatment of Kathy 'Ann Coulter with a Maple Leaf' Shaidle's blunt polemical exchange with the Katholics for Dean webmaster.
  
  
  
  
  
• And of course there's Mark Shea's: "a vote for Dean is a vote for Planned Parenthood."
  

Now what would really make this go down like a nice shot of Tequila is if Jeff Miller used his creativity to spin these into banner ads or webvertisements to which we could link from our blogs.  I've Jeff has got a full plate already, but hey! I can dream...

(Wow!  Jeff, you really do know how to make dreams come true...)

EDIT: One of our readers mentioned that in the interest of fairness and balance, since all the above soundbytes come from St. Blog parishioners, that I should mention the following zinger from anonymous at Katholics for Dean: "I am very pro-life, but I don't think we should outlaw abortion."  There you have it folks!  Spoken like a true advocate for of the Abortion Democrat Party.

On that note, let's end with the following paragraphs from Mark Steyn's analysis of the New Hampshire results:

Howard Dean? Oh, he hailed his spectacular triumph, too. And he might have got away with it, had he lost by a point or two (as I predicted) or held Kerry under 30 per cent, or 35 per cent, or from a double-digit lead. But a partial recovery in a state that represented Dean’s best shot at an early victory isn’t enough to make him the Comeback Kid. I thought he put it very well in this week’s Concession Speech of the Week. ‘We can have jobs again in America. And we will.’

And he will. Howard Dean will have a job again in America. It won’t be President of the United States. But there’s no reason why he couldn’t be a spokesperson for Ben & Jerry’s premium Vermont ice cream, perhaps dressed up as a Holstein in the late stages of BSE. (‘I scream for ice cream. And you will, too.’)