Posted on 10/26/2010 9:44:57 AM PDT by HonestConservative
They Hate Our Guts
And theyre drunk on power.
Perhaps youre having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOPs crowning gloryan isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine ODonnell announcing that shes not a witch. (I ask you, has Hillary Clinton ever cleared this up?) Fret not over Republican peccadilloes such as the Tea Party finding the single, solitary person in Nevada who couldnt poll ten to one against Harry Reid. Better to have a few cockeyed mutts running the dog pound than Michael Vick.
I take it back. Using the metaphor of Michael Vick for the Democratic party leadership implies they are people with a capacity for moral redemption who want to call good plays on the legislative gridiron. They arent. They dont. The reason is simple. They hate our guts.
They dont just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybodys guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class.
Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats.
Whence all this hate? Is it the usual story of love gone wrong? Do Democrats have a mad infatuation with the political system, an unhealthy obsession with an idealized body politic? Do they dream of capturing and ravishing representational democracy? Are they crazed stalkers of our constitutional republic?
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Thanks, HC. PJ’s essay is a great read—especially after listening to Barky’s “punish our ENEMIES” speech that was aired and parsed this morning on the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Political ping.
He wrote an essay in 1993 which I had tacked up on my wall when I was working for the longest time. When I was out of the office, someone lifted it.
I am unable to find the thing, and I get mad every time I think about it.
I think its been scrubbed.
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If you can outline the gist of it, I would wager that someone here will be able to find it for you before the day is over.
I have tried for a long time, and a similar one comes forward, but not the one I remember. I am sure about this, since it was posted in front of me for years.
It was published in the WSJ in 1993.
Have you contacted PJ or the WSJ? I ask because I understand how frustrating it is to lose such data, and how hard it can be to recover.
Yep. I give up.
My favorite line is NOT the one most people think of from the time;
“(getting) Lawyers to run health care is like asking the plumber to mow the lawn.”
Sorry.
:-(
Don’t get me wrong, I love the internet, CDs, downloads and all that good stuff, but the only proper way to live is in a high and towering barricaded of stacked books and cartons of documents. There is nothing quite like hard copy, and being able to put your hands on the paper.
-PJ O'Rourke
The Liberty Manifesto (1993)
thanks, smooth, great quote, and the one I am aware of, But the article that I am looking for is still missing.
That’s great to hear, thanks for the update. PJ is one of the reasons I am a conservative.
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