Watching him light up Winstons and listening to his adventures in syntax, some might pigeonhole Sparks after about 10 seconds. They'd be wrong
By the very way you describe him, you already have pigeonholed him, you elitist scumbag.
One minute, he's spewing Fox News/talk radio cliches about "big government" and school prayer. But the next minute, he's speaking eloquently on the real problems he and his neighbors face in 21st century rural America.
It's good to see that big government and school prayer aren't important. Jerk. And of course, it's Fox News Channel for us dumb-dumbs.
And why in the world is he going to vote for a president based on a side issue like which candidate hates gay marriages?
Maybe, just maybe, it's not a side issue for us Bible thumping rednecks. Ever thought of that?
Driving east into Seneca, SC, on US. 76, you're greeted by the corpulent majesty of the local Super Wal-Mart, a monstrosity with a barber shop, McDonald's, grocery store, shotguns and an eye doctor. Everything under one roof.As you exit the town, headed toward Clemson, you see 76's other most conspicuous roadside attraction, Tiger Tails: Dancers Wanted. It's a strip club popular with the over-40 set. For anyone tempted to go in, there's four or five religious radio stations to choose from as you make the 10-minute drive between Sam Walton's packed economy of scale and Tiger Tails.
Like I said, with "writers" like this in the South, who needs someone from Philly bashing us.
Instead, the opposite appears to be happening -- a sort of political paralysis that's reflected in the blank stares of Seneca's Wal-Mart employees..
Gee, I guess I'm on Free Republic and a conservative because I'm stupid now, is that it?
In the Super Wal-Mart, Adam Canady, from nearby Walhalla, hurriedly opens box after box of CDs amid the buzz of customers in the electronics section. His smock is festooned with small pins and his nametag. He looks up from the drudgery and practically sticks out his chest when he says he'll vote for Bush. "He's the only one who's shown himself capable of leading," Canady says.
The only intelligent thing in this pile of rubbish. I don't know who this guy is, but I like him already.
In return, they got a free-spending president who gave them a $300 tax rebate while he lowered taxes for the richest Americans to their lowest levels since 1932, a government deficit billed to their children and their children's children, and an invitation to send their kids to a war of disputable necessity.
Gotta love that unbiased reporting, especially when this is the front page article.
Forever, it seems, Southern demagogues managed to blame the "other" -- mainly blacks or Yankees
No, just liberal Yankees and blacks who push through excessive and unconstitutional programs which suck the money and life from the veins of ALL hard working people, not just Southerners.
Large swaths of Southern religion have failed to fight such demagoguery. Indeed, many churches have employed it themselves, substituting Christ's message of love and justice for the self-help gospel of personal wealth -- along with an emphasis on casting stones at others.
I wonder if he'll repeat that line to St. Peter?
That's the kind of life he's had to live, one where sacrifices have to be made -- a life unlike the runaway fiscal policy of the president he supports.
Since Democrats NEVER have had bad fiscal policy (coughcough) CALIFORNIA, NEWYORK, MASSACHUSSETTS (coughcough)
Then, Young attributes the change to Clinton's sex scandals and "because the Republicans have so effectively characterized us as free-wheeling, tax-spending, social-promoting freeloaders."
And the wrong point of this arguement would be...?
"It just . . . seemed to be a dwindling of responsibility," she says. "People more and more just seem to be looking at their own individual self-interests rather than the larger interests that may be necessary for all of us to live together."
Yeah, we should all give up individualism and be collective minded, kinda like on a commune. Hey, we can call it...COMMUNISM!
Kicking and screaming, right before an election, with some vague promise to "fix it" after he was re-elected along with the 'rats newly reclaimed House and Senate.
The average leftist yankee know-it-all thinks of us as dumb racist hicks who hang out in wal-mart parking lots and go to klan rallies for fun. They think we're too stupid to know what's best for us (i.e. our economic interests) and believe we need to be shown the way...by them of course. And they cannot for the life of them figure out why we don't eat up their welfare handout programs that they use to buy voters in every other region of the country. Every last one of them is smug, arrogant, snobbish, nosey, and, above all, extremely prone to inserting himself into other people's business and attempting to direct their lives. They are truly the most wretchid and arrogant scoundrels on the face of this earth and every day that any honest, decent and hard working individual has to spend encountering them is a curse.
Two years ago I drove to Louisiana as a volunteer for the Terrell campaign to oust Mary Landrieu. Landrieu and her DNC backers had recruited and hired workers straight out of the womens studies departments of every left wing northeaster college campus they could get to and bussed em down to counter us. They were some truly hideous beasts: spiked purple haircut black makeup overweight tank top wearing armpit hair showing pierced lip lesbian vegan goth abortionist yankee banshees. Worst of all, every last one of em though she was on a modern day "freedom ride" to the south to "liberate" the economically oppressed and ignorant backwoods poor people from us evil demagogue racist corporatist republicans. They were fun to taunt though, so all was not lost.
I know Winter Haven and Lakeland really well; I have friends who live there. They got hosed worse than many others by the economic downturn and the reduction in travel in the first year of the war. (The Cypress Gardens resort, which employed hundreds, went paws up, for one thing).
But this guy who wrote this is simply priceless. You can almost feel him seething, Don't these inbred hayseeds know that we know better what's good for them... they should give up their guns, give their kids to Michael Jackson, celebrate diversity, perversity and buggery, and just generally shut the heck up and vote for us!
And then he's actually surprized that they don't want to vote for his wonderful party. Glory.
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