Posted on 11/04/2004 8:57:48 PM PST by George Stupidnopolis
Friday, Nov. 5, 2004 I hate it when they do that - write a column that not only says what I planned to write but also has almost the same title I had in mind. But when the writer is Ron Marr, one of the best down-to-earth columnists on the Internet, I simply doff my hat.
Ron sets off his column with a quote from what he called a "well-coifed anchor" whose voice dripped "with derision and condescension" when he told his viewers: "What we don't realize is that there's a huge segment of the country that doesn't think like us. We can never understand the people who like their guns and their pickup trucks and their NASCAR."
Ron goes on the tell us: "That comment, as much as anything else, serves as explanation as to why George Bush was re-elected with the largest percentage of popular vote since 1968. The pretty TV man was stating that those such as he – the elites, the sophisticates – can never comprehend the lowly mental horsepower of folk who shop at Wal-Mart, belong to a bowling league, sometimes attend church, and still believe that the United States is far superior to the socialist enclaves of Europe.
"To the TV darling, working stiffs and Joe Six-Packs are the 'great unwashed.' They don't read the New York Times, utter sly chuckles at the cartoons in The New Yorker or spend 400 bucks on a pair of shoes. They like a beer and a steak, read the funny pages on Sunday morning and think a day of chips and NFL is a dandy ol' time.
"Such being the case, they are not worthy of respect."
I could not have said it better, or even quite as well.
There's nothing new about this, the great divide between decent ordinary Americans and the liberal elite – it's been responsible for the elections of Ronald Reagan and George Bush and the Republican control of Congress since 1994 (save for the brief period after the turncoat Sen. Jeffords deserted the GOP and started voting with the disreputable Senate Democrats).
What these intellectual and cultural snobs have done is to treat the great mass of Americans as slightly retarded ignoramuses, unmindful of the fact that we do have our pride and the opportunity to shove it in their face by voting down their darlings when the mood strikes us – as it just did.
What the self-appointed elite can't understand is that most Americans instinctively reject anything that smells of Big Brotherism – the doctrine that a largely un-elected group of elitist journalists, socialist legislators and academics, and hordes of licentious Hollywood celebrities know what's best for us, the members of what they look down upon as the underclass – and that we are the heirs of the colonial folks who waved a flag showing a curled rattlesnake and the warning "Don't Tread on Me."
So they keep treading on us and keep getting bitten. Remember, for example, how these people tried to smear Mel Gibson and attacked his monumental film "The Passion of the Christ." Remember how they predicted it would be a classic Hollywood box office bomb and tried to convince us that we should avoid seeing it. Remember how we blithely ignored them and flocked by the millions to see the film and turned it into a billion-dollar smash box office hit.
Over the last four years, it became evident that George Bush really is what he told us he is – a devout Christian who prays constantly and who, by putting himself into the hands of God and following His will, knows that he is being guided by his Lord in all that he does. This, probably more than his conservative political views and his determination to fight terrorism on its home ground and his adamant refusal to surrender American sovereignty to our erstwhile European allies and the feckless U.N., galls the largely atheistic liberal internationalist community.
They simply can't understand how in this enlightened age, where secularist hedonism is the accepted creed, any president of the United States could be addicted to such an outmoded form of what they regard as sheer superstition. God simply doesn't enter into their concept of what life is all about or how it should be lived. They see themselves as an ordained elite destined to direct our lives. They simply have no time for God.
Were the truth to be told, they worship their own god, and his name is Karl Marx. Whether they admit it or not, they are his modern-day acolytes and as such are socialists to their inner core. They peddle their socialism under the guise of "social welfare." Like Satan they repeat his promise in the Garden of Eden that we "shall be as gods" if we heed the siren song of collectivism and surrender ourselves to their authority.
Most Americans have looked behind the liberal promises, seen the ghastly image of Karl Marx lurking there and rejected them out of hand. Yet the poor fools keep trotting out poor old Karl in new clothing – they keep telling us they have "plans" to make life a bowl of cherries for us all if we'll just vote them into office and hand over the keys to the Treasury. They can't understand that we have plans too – and they don't include putting the socialists in charge of our lives and liberty, or our pocketbooks.
I'll let Ron Marr have the last word.
"The election of 2004 was not just a case of Bush versus Kerry. It was a contest of city versus country, blue collar versus white collar, arrogant elitist versus good ol' boy. It was class warfare in the deepest of trenches, but even after being whipped, dipped and hung out to dry, the high and mighty of the left STILL don't get it. They cannot comprehend how and why they were whomped by a bunch of hicks.
"And the Limousine Liberals STILL don't get it. They think the Bush victory is an anomaly, even though they've been humiliated twice in four years. They will lose again and again, firm in the resolve that good breeding always wins the day. The clay-eaters, rubes and mouth-breathers of 'Flyover Country' will never surpass them, they think, for they lack class, culture and social contacts.
"As for the aforementioned po' white trash ... they are laughing. They don't have much cash. They don't have health insurance. They don't take cruises. They don't have designer labels.
"All they've got is the Senate, the House, the Oval Office and a grin that spreads ear to ear."
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Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com
A small few of them do get it. They're just plain shocked, however, but they do get it and they are quite depressed about their situation.
This article is condescending and doesn't get it as well.
Very well said!
Hey....whur'dja git thu pikcher of mu kin?
"All they've got is the Senate, the House, the Oval Office and a grin that spreads ear to ear."
Perfect!
I agree. A bit extreme and not terribly complimentary in its profile of a Bush backer. I think he's yanking our chains just a little.
"All they've got is the Senate, the House, the Oval Office and a grin that spreads ear to ear."
Excellent.
More than anything, the libs want power. Red states have it and it's not for sale.
I read it that this is how the elites view the average Bush backer...that being one of the reasons why they lost
Maybe you're right. After gloating and Freeping (as opposed to sleeping) for most of the past 48 hours, my capacity for seeing -- er, shall we say, nuance? -- is severely diminished. I like your interpretation better.
Here's the problem with the Democrats.... they tell us that they don't want to send our kids off to die in a war. Instead, let's kill them while they're still in our wombs. Once the left understands how stupid and transparent their fake compassion for "our kids" are, maybe then they'll get it.
"That comment, as much as anything else, serves as explanation as to why George Bush was re-elected with the largest percentage of popular vote since 1968."
Uh . . . that wouldn't be a very large percentage (Nixon/Humphrey wasn't a blow-out). 1972, on the other hand (Nixon/McGovern) was pretty darn sizeable.
but who supports partial-birth abortion.
The liberal trash will always exempt themselves from their "Great Socialist Gooblie Goo" which is "perfect" for the Nation if we will just wake up and swallow the scam.
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