The 'hicks' bit back

Toronto Sun ^ | November 6, 2004 | Michael Coren

[Clive]

The headline writer put this in as the sub-head:

The icons of glamour and glitz all said John Kerry was the only choice for people with any intelligence -- but Middle America didn't care, says Michael Coren

[Clive]

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[FormerACLUmember]

Most names on the Nobel Prize winners list are Americans.

The left would have us believe that Americans are morons and fools. It is called "projection."

[NewCenturions]

Bump

[sitetest]

This Canadian has successfully gotten into the head of regular American folks.

[Grut]

...the culture of smug assumption.

That's a keeper!

[anniegetyourgun]

This article completely reflects two of my own relatives who used to be Dems. They were quite suspicious of the concerted hate campaign of the Left in this election cycle. It drove them right to the arms of GW.

[OpusatFR]

"Middle America shouted its impatience. It wasn't that it so liked George Bush, more that it was so tired of Bush's critics."

Oh Good Grief. Here's another one who doesn't get it. I could care less and certainly don't listen to celebrities with less education, experience, and knowledge than I.

I LIKE GWB. I approve of his worldview and his tactics. I believe that he is taking the world on a journey that will free it from not only the facism that pervades Islam, but also wrenching the world back from the brink of socialism and Marxist ideology.

[anniegetyourgun]

It's almost scary how much so.....

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Middle America experienced an epiphany. We are not bigots or yokels just because we believe in the family and in traditional virtues and values. We are not hateful merely because we support our troops and cry when we hear the national anthem.

YES!

Working-class Americans began to ask some questions. They wondered why wealthy, white entertainers, artists and, I'm sure, freelance manufacturers of organic yogurt, were announcing that they would leave the United States if George Bush won the election.

Imagine that. If democracy didn't provide the result they wanted, these selfish rich kids would run away to Canada or Britain.

Is that patriotism? Middle America didn't remember Republicans threatening to leave when Bill Clinton won a second term.

YES!

Top-notch find, Clive! :)

[anniegetyourgun]

Ssshhhhh....don't tell ANYONE on the Left about this article.....

[highflight]

"I LIKE GWB. I approve of his worldview and his tactics. I believe that he is taking the world on a journey that will free it from not only the facism that pervades Islam, but also wrenching the world back from the brink of socialism and Marxist ideology".

Well said!

History repeating itself. The silent majority vs. the chattering classes!

[texan75010]

Ping

[samiam1972]

I loved everything about this article except this, "It wasn't that it so liked George Bush". For me, it was all about the man. He is absolutely what this country needs.

[samtheman]

How could Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Bill Meher, Bruce Springsteen and Whopi Goldberg fail to get Kerry elected?

[valkyrieanne]

"I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school..."

LOLOLOL...

[bert]

Agony is for wallowing in

[MizSterious]

"They would deny, of course, that they accused their fellow Americans of being stupid, but this is precisely what they did. "

Actually, it's what most of them are still doing. They haven't figured it out yet. Right now, they're haggling over how to appear pious and moral, rather than being pious and moral. Let's face it, Kerry made a lot of very public church visits, but the people (the majority of them anyway) could tell the difference between make-believe piety and someone who actually lives what he believes.

[asp1]

I voted for GWB because he is a good, decent, honest man. I trust his judgment and trust his advisers. If by voting for the President also sticks a thumb in the eye of Hollywood, well, that's just the cherry on top of the sundae.

[stayathomemom]

How many of these people grew up in the Midwest and left home having pegged their idols as someone other than a parent or other average guy. They may still not realize the wisdom of those they left behind. Or maybe they grew up surrounded by really horrible people, which is why they chose to live in a fantasy land. I know that the coasts can draw the cream of the crop, but some of that "cream" also has no desire to live anywhere near those areas.