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Posted on 05/31/2011 8:33:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Not every Republican lives in Greenwich and earns millions.
For non-wealthy Republicans – as for non-wealthy Americans generally – the past half-decade has been a terrible time. Perhaps they have seen their house collapse in value. Perhaps they have lost their home altogether. Perhaps their retirement portfolio lost its value. Perhaps they have lost a job. Perhaps their child cannot start a job. Perhaps they have been hit by all of the above.
Or maybe they got lucky. Maybe they escaped any particular disaster. Yet they still face a reduced future. To repay its debts, the nation will need to export more. That means a reduced dollar, which in turn means that Americans will find it more expensive to buy globally traded goods like gasoline, grain, and coffee. Their state government is raising fees and cutting services to balance its books, so they can expect to pay more for worse roads, schools, parks, and hospitals. A big question mark hangs over the retirement guarantees extended by the federal government. Will Social Security and Medicare be there for them in anything like their current form?
Nor were things going so well even before the disaster.
Now they feel themselves living in a hostile culture, under a president who describes himself as a Christian but never goes to church, and who manages to symbolize both the ascendency of the educated elite and the displacement of native-born whites by non-white immigrants.
In this inhospitable climate, they have had many reasons to feel that the GOP does not speak for them.
They had reason to feel that the GOP did not speak for them during the years leading up to the disaster, when they were told that the Bush economy was “the greatest story never told,” despite the stagnation of their wages.
They had reason to feel that the GOP did not speak for them during the crisis, when Republicans bailed out Wall Street and the big car companies, while leaving distressed homeowners to fend for themselves.
They have reason now to feel that the GOP does not speak for them, as it coalesces around a plan to eliminate their deductions and curtail their Medicare in order to enact a big tax cut for people much higher on the income ladder.
They feel victimized, embittered, deeply mistrustful of every established institution except the military. And they are hungry for a candidate who pungently expresses their victimhood, bitterness and mistrust: Donald Trump? Herman Cain? Michele Bachmann? But of course, nobody does it better than the candidate who has made victimhood her core message: Sarah Palin.
Hey Frum. Go back to Canada you sniveling weasel. You have been thoroughly discredited as a RINO hack. This silly narrative that the GOP is losing voters for making hard decisions makes absolutely no sense in the face of the Conservative rout in the midterms. Try coming up with some other spin for your man Romney and his McLame like centrism that no one is buying.
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Mr. Frum, I give you the title of a vintage rock song, as your answer, to wit, "More than a Feeling"!!
By the way, it isn't an 'educated' elite, it's a self anointed, self appointed, thoroughly indoctrinated 'elite', one which you profess to be a part of. Therefore pardonnez moi, if I mirror the disdain and contempt you feel for me, and mine, right back at you, cubed!!
the infowarrior
David Frum, part of the RINO ruling class.
Tell us, Frum . . . How does ‘Cuda tap your fears?
First I heard of a plan to enact a big tax cut for the wealthy (as opposed to keeping existing tax rates as they are).
Obama's most salient feature as a leader is his arrogance--a trait shared by Frum.
the infowarrior
This is nothing compared to what I just watched. I no longer watch BOR, but I was on the phone and the show came on.
BOR and Brit Hume are going with the narrative that Palin isn’t going to run and that she’s damaged goods.
I expected this from BOR, but Hume backed him up. I am so damn sick of this crap.
Frum should realize these aren’t the GOP’s economic fears, they’re EVERYONE’s economic fears.
Worthless drivel from a a worthless hack.
No doubt. Grrrrrrrrr
Thanks for the link..
LLS
Yes, Ms. Frum, I am agrieved; wounded, I tell you ...
Naw. Maybe not. Maybe I just feel like hoisting the Black Flag, and slitting some throats.
Neither Cain, Bachmann, or Palin are “bitter victims”. All three are happy, upbeat people. What a pile of garbage.
It's not the economy, stupid. It's freedom. Even if Obama successfully boosts the economy by raiding our children's future earnings, we will still despise that parasitic communist.
To repay its debts, the nation will need to export more. That means a reduced dollar . . .
Huh? Exports are bad to this writer? Is this Romney spokesperson an economic illiterate in addition to his other flaws?
a president who describes himself as a Christian but never goes to church, and who manages to symbolize both the ascendency of the educated elite and the displacement of native-born whites by non-white immigrants.
First, I'm unwilling to give the druggie in our White House that political title. Second, I don't think even the thug's supporters believe him when he "professes" to be Christian. Finally, that race card is worn out. Palin is in an interracial marriage. Jindal is non-white and the child of immigrants. Conservatives don't support either one because of their race or racial ties, nor do they oppose others because of race. Real Americans judge by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, and both Jindal and Palin come out red-white-and-blue on that scale. There is no detectable racism among the vast majority of conservatives. That card may still work barely, with the far left fringe, but it's meaningless to productive Americans.
the candidate who has made victimhood her core message: Sarah Palin.
Yet another attempt to frame Palin for us? No thank you. Her core messages are honor, integrity, individual responsibility, limited government, and traditional values. Victimhood has nothing to do with it, which is why so many productive Americans support her and not the professional victim in our White House.
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