"For all his positions and religious beliefs, Christie is too Joisey for the tea party — too brash, as well"
So Richard Cohen swings from both sides of the plate when he describes Chris Christie. Is he playing with us? Is he just being elitist-snarky?
Next he moves on to Rick Santorum: "Rick Santorum neither cuddly nor moderate" and then takes an opportunistic backhand to Sarah Palin:
None of these candidates bears the slightest resemblance to Christie. And the more literate of them — that’s not you, Palin
Why do these liberals soak themselves in this kind of effete bitchiness? It Is extremely unbecoming in men.
I get it that Richard Cohen thinks he is smarter than any conservative who ever lived and who will ever live but is it necessary to denigrate Christians? Cohen is a Jew, how about I wax a little anti-Semitic and see what his reaction is?
I suppose what offends me most about this screed is Cohen's arrogant assumption that his side has won and my side has lost. ("a lament for a lost America...It could be the tea party’s anthem.")
One is reminded of Whittaker Chambers' introduction to his biography, "Witness" in which he confides his belief that in switching sides from communist to Western democracy he was consciously joining the losing side of a global struggle to the death. Why? Because his Christian epiphany required it of him. Maybe that explains much of Richard Cohen's antipathy toward Christians.
But I do fear that the dark side will win and I think that is a common feeling growing like a fungus in the heartland of America. I say the quicker it spreads the better because if Richard Cohen is correct and it is that angst that motivates the Tea Party, I pray God to make all of us more fearful until we are motivated to take down our flintlocks from over the mantle and join the Tea Party because a transcendent truth, the Spirit of God if you will, impels us to oppose evil.Judge Mr. Cohen by the spirit of his words and decide whether we are dealing with snarkiness and arrogance or have our political adversaries descended into moral vacuity?
The Democrat party and especially the Obama administration are so rogue, so unmoored from law and Constitution, and so increasingly tyrannical that we are now confronted with a moral as well is a political imperative to oppose him and the party which sustains him no less than it was a moral imperative to put an end to slavery.
If one is made uncomfortable by an appeal cast in spiritual terms, do it for the kids.
