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  • Has-been Karl Rove, master of the vicious personal attack, pontificated in the Wall Street Journal that "Mr. Obama's victory was personal rather than philosophical," as though Barack had simply won a popularity contest.

    Delusion Profusion 2010

  • Has-been Karl Rove, master of the vicious personal attack, pontificated in the Wall Street Journal that "Mr. Obama's victory was personal rather than philosophical," as though Barack had simply won a popularity contest.

    Michael Sigman: Delusion Profusion 2010

  • Has-been supervisors who CAUSED The problems were covering their tracks, not lobbying for conservative spending.

    28th Senate Update 2007

  • Has-been Karl Rove, master of the vicious personal attack, pontificated in the Wall Street Journal that "Mr. Obama's victory was personal rather than philosophical," as though Barack had simply won a popularity contest.

    Michael Sigman: Delusion Profusion 2008

  • Has-been tough guy Bill O'Reilly caused a scene at an Obama event in New Hampshire.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • By making these changes, and announcing them so bluntly, I don't intend to disrespect or take for granted any of the people who have come with me on the journey from Has-been to Hope-to-be.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: June 2005 Archives 2005

  • Norns, named Has-been, Being, Will-be, who shape the lives of men; there are beside other Norns, who come to every man that is born to shape his life, and some of these are good and some evil.

    The Story of the Volsungs Anonymous 1873

  • The Will-be and the Has-been touch us more nearly than the Is. So we are more tender towards children and old people than to those who are in the prime of life.

    The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

  • Has-been Bruce Bartlett loves nothing more than stabbing conservatives and libertarians in the back.

    FrontPage Magazine Liz Blaine 2010

  • Has-been Bruce Bartlett loves nothing more than stabbing conservatives and libertarians in the back.

    FrontPage Magazine David Swindle 2010

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