Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

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

1 posted on 11/06/2004 5:37:48 AM PST by Clive
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-56 next last
To: Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; coteblanche; Ryle; albertabound; mitchbert; ...

-


2 posted on 11/06/2004 5:38:08 AM PST by Clive
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive
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."

3 posted on 11/06/2004 5:43:26 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

Bump


4 posted on 11/06/2004 5:43:51 AM PST by NewCenturions
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

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


5 posted on 11/06/2004 5:44:05 AM PST by sitetest (Why does everyone get so uptight about toasted heretics??)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive
...the culture of smug assumption.

That's a keeper!

6 posted on 11/06/2004 5:44:41 AM PST by Grut
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

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.


7 posted on 11/06/2004 5:44:48 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

"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.



8 posted on 11/06/2004 5:44:51 AM PST by OpusatFR (Let me repeat this: the web means never having to swill leftist garbage again. Got it?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive
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! :)

10 posted on 11/06/2004 5:46:03 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: All

Ping


13 posted on 11/06/2004 5:49:05 AM PST by texan75010 (You lost - MoveOn...to France, or Canada, or New Zealand, or Germany...take your pick.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

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.


14 posted on 11/06/2004 5:49:57 AM PST by samiam1972 (Live simply so that others may simply live!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

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


15 posted on 11/06/2004 5:50:24 AM PST by samtheman (www.swiftvets.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive
"I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school..."

LOLOLOL...

16 posted on 11/06/2004 5:51:07 AM PST by valkyrieanne (card-carrying South Park Republican)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

Agony is for wallowing in


17 posted on 11/06/2004 5:52:00 AM PST by bert (Peace is only halftime !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive
"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.

18 posted on 11/06/2004 5:52:30 AM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive
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.
20 posted on 11/06/2004 5:52:50 AM PST by stayathomemom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

I've been trying to find something to use as a tagline and Mr. Coren gave it to me. Thank you.


22 posted on 11/06/2004 5:55:21 AM PST by SilentServiceCPOWife (Then, in the smiling twilight of the new political morning, the unwashed told their betters to shove)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

Great read! Thanks for posting it. :-)


24 posted on 11/06/2004 5:55:59 AM PST by JoeSixPack1 (Typing incoherently on FR since May '98.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive

Wow. Bravo, Mr. Coren.


26 posted on 11/06/2004 5:56:40 AM PST by mewzilla
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive
Hey, don't forget screwed-over divorced dads, normal non-paranoid people, and Jews who don't want to be murdered by terrorists in the coalition of those who kicked Kerry's ass. Many of us are embedded deeply in Blue country, but we voted for Bush too!
33 posted on 11/06/2004 5:58:22 AM PST by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Clive
It was very simple for me- here's how I explained it to the undecided:

I can support a man I don't always agree with- I can't support a man I can't trust.

34 posted on 11/06/2004 5:58:28 AM PST by backhoe ("We met at Dawn- and destiny Prevailed...")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-56 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson