The 'hicks' bit back

Toronto Sun ^ | November 6, 2004 | Michael Coren

[beckysueb]

Wow, that brought tears to my eyes. Maybe a culmination of the long stress filled past year.

[EDINVA]

this is the best I've read yet ... there is only ONE word, I would change:

"an actress with a vacant smile and a copy of Socialism For Beginners." .. Beginners should read: Dummies

I am so proud to be an American !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks all you hicks out there !!!!

[beef]

That T-Shirt I would buy. Do you have one in XL?

[ILS21R]

Excellent. LOL.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Then, in the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.

New tagline bump.

[DoctorMichael]

I would have used THIS in the subhead:

"Middle America remembered a time when actors, singers and writers reflected the nation. These performers no longer aspired to reflect but to reshape it in their own narcissistic image."

No matter. Good article.

Bttt.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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

Where, exactly, would we go? Hong Kong has the economic policies I favor, but I don't speak the language and don't trust Peking to keep its paws off for long.

[NewCenturions]

"I'm a Dem from the Upper West Side of NYC,and I can tell you that the 'concerted hate campaign of the Left' drove me smack into the arms of GW. First time I ever voted for a Republican president.

Bravo! You must be a person of strong character to swim against that tide!

[anniegetyourgun]

Welcome to the fold, somer.

Unfortunately, I fear this is one lesson that the DNC is going to learn from this. While they maybe be spewing their "we hate W, Christians, and red state dips**ts" now - it will change. In fact, I expect them to get a new tune by the mid-term elections.

Sadly, as soon as they disguise their hatred under a banner of "centrist" candidates, most former D's/fence-sitters/undecideds will return to them. Seems quite a number of the American electorate can be co-opted by nice words (I feel your pain?), without ever investigating the record of liberals and liberalism. See 1992 and 1996.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I'm a Dem from the Upper West Side of NYC,and I can tell you that the "concerted hate campaign of the Left" drove me smack into the arms of GW. First time I ever voted for a Republican president."

Welcome to the world of sane, rational people.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Dang...you beat me to the tagline.

[MNnice]

Then, in the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove it.

LOL!

 

[cricket]

This writer puts in a beautiful nutshell the realities that contributed 'big time' to GW's big win.

A treat that it is said so well; and even moreso, that it comes by way of Toronto.

I think I will pass it on to Juliette, Mike and Julian (Fox/Friends Wkend); who have been grappling all morning with the explanations 'for' GW's success.

I detect in this as well; a kind of yearning; that Canadians should have such a fortunate population; who could see the lies embedded in the truth; they now live under.

[Dallas59]

[R. Scott]

In my opinion, the Democratic Party started losing favor with many when it turned away from traditional American values. They allowed the Republicans to claim that territory as their own. As a result the Democratic Party took up the antithesis – if Republicans were for an idea, the democrats were automatically against it. They became reactive rather than proactive.
Republicans were pro-Christian, so the Democrats became anti-Christian.
Republicans were anti-gay, so the Democrats became pro-gay.
Republicans were patriotic and pro-USA, so the Democrats became anti-patriotic and anti-American.
This seemed to match nicely with the effete snobs of Hollywood, the entertainment media and the “Big City” sophisticates - and the Democratic Party became theirs.
That turned off a lot of people.

[beckysueb]

Talk about middle America being put down and insulted, its even worse if you live in the southeast. Dixie, we call it. We have been called hillbillies, ignorant, commonly incestuous, no teeth, uneducated, poor grasp of the English language, dirty, sort of like we are all out of Deliverance. I was born and raised in the Midwest and came south when I married in '67. When my brothers married they brought their wives to meet me and they were shocked how cultured the southeast is. They had the same stereotype as everyone. The first time I met my stepmother when we went north for a visit, she asked me how close our nearest neighbor was. Its funny, too, because she and my Dad lived in the north woods of MN. I don't even want to start in on how DU portrays us. But they pretty much lump all Bush supporters the same way. supporters the same way.

[LouD]

Our volunteer army in our county consisted of attorneys, MBAs, PhDs, teachers, doctors, nurses, construction workers, auto mechanics, small business owners, assembly line workers, clergy, retail workers, retired people, students - In short an entire cross section of our community, and our country - and I'd match any of them up against the population of the blue states any day.

[Spok]

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

Agreed. And if this Canuck can do it, why can't the Democrats?

[cricket]

ps Should have qualified that this applies, to 'some of the people' ie many of the ones we were worried about - the voter's who this writer is referencing as well.

Of course, the already 'committed to GW' are not being analyzed - by anyone. . .

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

I'm sorry. :-)

That sentence was a tag line waiting to happen and I couldn't pass it up.