Letters to the Editor
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No fair
Glenn,
Quit quoting idiots at the start of your posts. I never got to the rest of it, as I was laughing too hard. What a maroon. Obviously this dingleberry hasn't spend a moment in business if he thinks a handshake is the bond of the idealist/industrialist. Bwahhahaha. That is the bond of suckers, the naive, the ill prepared and the uninitiated. We call them 'former businessmen' where I come from, the business world of the good old USA. When you are able to say, "What does it say in the contract?", you can call yourself a successful businessman.
BF
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Straight out of John Locke
Whoever is at the heart of the Republican Party think tank (I think it must be a pudgy sub-human looking brain-blob like Karl Rove) gets a lot of his philosophy on manipulating the people straight from Locke. Persecution sparks fever in the religious mind, and now that sort of messianic zeal is applied to politics.
Unfortunately, Locke's conclusion is that the gov't shouldn't persecute any people, and should give them the freedom to worship as they please in order to preserve a working, ordered society. I guess they don't really care about that anymore.
What's sick is that listening to the Republican candidates really spew this stuff. It's so stupid to hear it, yet they know their constituents; they know it's what they want. they know they are a bunch of fearful, unthinking, retards, desperate for someone to tell them what to think. Someone to take away the pain and give them something base and easy to believe in. Hate and fear are the two easiest emotions to get a handle on.
I hate to give to much credit to a political party, but it's really true that you don't hear this sort of crap from the Democrats.
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Just don't do this:
If blackish brown "gum" gets stuck on the shoe...
don't assume it is chewing gum and begin to chew it.
yuck. O, dammit them 'ole at troll bird foul honking geese.
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no I basically said
"if you really want to call the LIBERALS on their culture of faux victimhood, A GOOD way to do that is to be an even bigger faux victim."
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Be Honest, Glenn, It's Across the Board
I do not disagree at all with your assessment EXCEPT to say that this tone is universal in politics today rather than the sole purview of the right, and it is why Obama (and Huckabee, to a lesser extent) have resonated with the public.
Obama flat out moved me during the Kennedy endorsement speech and, as you know from our 15 year history, I am an inveterate (moderate) Republican. You know, a traitorous, commie RINO?
Atwater/Carville/Rove moved the political dynamic from one of trying to co-opt the center to one of depressing the center and energizing your base while ameliorating the opponents. Rather than extend the olive branch, you generate a hot button issue for both sides. For the pubbies that was to move gay marriage initiatives and then throw out gentle language on immigration to placate hispanics and how they stayed home while the bible thumpers pulled the lever.
I like Obama's style -- a lot. I like Huckabee's tenor. Both at times have prodded the rest of the candidates to be more conciliatory.
As Americans we like to think we are powerful yet benevolent. Reagan came roaring in after Carter made us look impotent on the global scene through the Iranian hostage crisis. We couldn't handle a backwater country in Vietnam and now we were held captive by a rag tag group in an Embassy Building. The lynchpin of international discourse, sovereign immunity, was overrun and we were powerless? What the fuck?
Today we're powerful enough all right, but we're perceived as mean and haughty. We don't like that. So Obama's message of reaching across the aisle, of uniting us under the premise the sum of the parts is greater than the whole resonates. It also likely has some appeal on the right for moderates seeing McCain as someone who will work with democrats.
So I would argue that you're half right. There's a liberal talk radio show host in Massachusetts, Jim Braude, to whom I listen regularly who has gone on the attack against the Clintonistas. He has publicly taken them on saying that in his 9 years on the radio the nastiest attacks on him in email during his shows has come whenever he criticizes Hillary.
From 1992 to 2000, it was only the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy they depicted as against them. Since she has been running the letter writers around here have been complaing the Mainstream Media is out to get her. And, just recently, Old Teddy Kennedy, the old Liberal Lion standard bearer for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party has seen fit to come out and take a swipe at her as well.
When you opposition runs the gamut from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, through the Mainstream Media, all the way over to the left wing of the Democratic Party, I would say it is time for some introspection, wouldn't you?
And their answer to the Kennedy endorsement of Obama was to announce that they had beefed up their Rapid Response Teams. As many likely know, Clinton/Carville made the phrase famous as their justification for quickly counter attacking against any perceived smears from Bush 1. The sense of persecution justified any response.
So in the face of an historic moment in the democratic party, passing the torch of Camelot from the surviving daughter and aging surrogate of a time viewed as being filled with hope and optimism. the Clinton's chose to send out a thinly veiled warning that they had gone on high alert.
From Teddy to the VRWC. It looks a lot like Berlin in April of 1945 and the Clintons are not the Liberators.
So I wholeheartedly agree with your point as far as you take it, but respectfully submit it is only half the story.
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Proximity Warning ...
Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
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Not all conspiracy theorists are conservatives.
But all conservatives are conspiracy theorists.
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Gwool?
A misfit high school pitcher rejected from a game?
You gotta be no a' throwing spitballs or screwballs?
Mercy. I gotta stop muttering here or I'll be barned.
I'm visited on-line by govmint. I'll go to the dump,
peacefully