Jerry Della Femina is an ad guy. He went from copywriter to founder of his own successful agency. These people live, breathe, and study human motivation, because dollars rest on it.
After a long career, he retired to Eastern Long Island, the playground of the rich, clueless, and Democratic. There he got bored, and founded two successful restaurants. At restaurants, you get to listen to people tell you what they think with a few drinks in them. I'm confident Jerry knows his customers.
What I get from his column is that a lot of soft-headed liberals supported 0zero in 2008 because they figured they could pat themselves on the back and live in a Coke commercial in their minds, and it wouldn't cost them anything. They have figured out how much it actually cost, and they're not happy.
Speaking of New York liberals, it happened before when Rudy Giuliani ran for Mayor against David Dinkins—a tennis-playing party hack who, like Obama, was vaguely black (my daughter tans better). In his first term, Dinkins destroyed the city with crime and corruption so fast, the liberals turned out in droves the first chance they got. They quietly voted Rudy into office by a big margin—then re-elected him when he proved he could make order out of chaos.
When liberals get disillusioned, they really run for the exits. Don't forget how much we complain when liberals move to normal states like NC and Virginia and turn them into dangerous swing states. Well, if New York liberals are backing away from Zippy, it means something very significant: He's toast in the New South.
Well, if New York liberals are backing away from Zippy, it means something very significant: He’s toast in the New South.
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Good point. I didn’t make the connection. Thanks.