Molly Ivins: The Uncompassionate Conservative

Mother Jones ^ | December 2003 | Molly Ivins

[Dane]

The libs are probably saying three "Hail Molly's" over this article oozing with elitist pap.

[RichInOC]

MoooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo.

[linn37]

Just skip to the last paragraph and save your time for more important things.

[epluribus_2]

would it be bad manners to ZOT! a column from a nationally syndicated journalist?

[Non-Sequitur]

bump

[TheBigB]

blah blah blah blah blah blah....

[phil1750]

Our local paper publishes ivans once in a while so that we can see just how really stupid the leftist b!TCH really is.
If you read her often (and you can through Drudge) you get a good idea how the far left thinks, and it ain't pretty.

[KellyAdmirer]

It must create some kind of creative dissonance in this hack writer to realize she makes a living off of a man she can only trash and trash and trash and trash week after week after week after week....

[Skooz]

I used to read her column regularly in my local paper.

Her failure to grasp even the most rudimentary elements of logic and critical thought was (and remains) breathtaking.

She is an intellectual lightweight. Refuting her drivel is child's play.

[over3Owithabrain]

Molly knows everything:

Knows Bush since high school; Knows the people of Texas; Knows the plight of the poor; Knows what makes Bush tick.

Trust, Molly, folks, she knows what you should think - Bush is evil and a liar. And when not being an evil liar, he is sincere and honest but obtuse. Now Bill Clinton, that's a real man, right Molly?

[proud American in Canada]

"Bush had said to him, "I don't understand how poor people think," and had described himself as a "white Republican guy who doesn't get it, but I'd like to."


I have a hard time believing GW would say something like that. He's not that stupid.

It seems like an outright lie, or at the least, a distortion.

[jjm2111]

Very interesting article, but she forgets the fact that the vast majority of successful people did NOT inherit their wealth.

I do have to agree w/ Molly Ivans that most people who are born into vast wealth have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what it's like to be poor (or even middle class). They have no clue. None. And I would surmise that in this regard she might be right about the president.

But whatever my objections w/ President Bush's policies and whatever advantages he might have been born with, I do have to say he handled the post-9/11 days admirably and he seems to actually have a soul, unlike the former occupant of the White House.

[over3Owithabrain]

"Bush had said to him, "I don't understand how poor people think," and had described himself as a "white Republican guy who doesn't get it, but I'd like to."

And if Bush did indeed say that, wouldn't that be an extremely honest statement? But yet Molly concludes with what a liar he is. So was he lying and he does understand the poor?

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>>>>>>Welfare, Medicare, Social Security, food stamps -- horrors, they breed dependency.

Dependency will be the least these programs breed when they exhaust our nation's ability to pay for them by c. 2030. The next Great American Depression will result from the failure of 20th Century American Democratic Socialism. This is why The Prescription Drug Panderation Act was a terrible piece of destructive legislation.

[Howlin]

Want to see real SCUM? Vileness like you won't believe?

Go to Democratic Underground and read the top article by Sheila Samples, Bad Boys.

Then read this little ditty I googled up:

A fine spokesman for DU.

[Mr. Jeeves]

To have a Texas accent in the East in those days was to have 20 points automatically deducted from your estimated IQ.

Times have sure changed. Now it's 40 points.

[No Blue States]

As a Texas i am ashamed molly ivans is from here.
And she certainly doesnt speak for me, or anyone i know.
In fact, considering Bush carried Texas by a large margin in 2000, she pretty much speaks only for her own retarded fatass.

[Jokelahoma]

Ever get the idea that if you put Molly, Helen Thomas and Josef Stalin in a room together, you'd be able to tell Stalin apart from the others by the facts that

A) Stalin would be the most politically conservative of the three, and

B) He'd also be the least physically repugnant?

Molly is the Texan answer to Maureen Dowd; full of trite little quips which she uses to show how "clever" she is, but which really do nothing to prove any points she's trying to make, and instead simply identify her as bitter and irrelevant. Just another leftist who can't come to grips with the fact someone she sees as her intellectual inferior is now President of the United States. I can't decide if this would be funny were it not so sad, or sad if it weren't so funny.

[woofie]

Budget cuts? How come spending is at record levels?