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Ordinary Americans confound the Left
Manchester Union Leader ^ | 11/7/2004 | Kathleen Parker

Posted on 11/07/2004 5:14:08 AM PST by StoneGiant

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1 posted on 11/07/2004 5:14:08 AM PST by StoneGiant
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Very well written article.
She summed it up perfectly.


2 posted on 11/07/2004 5:19:21 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan (We childproofed our home, but they are still getting in)
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SHHHHH! Kathleen you are giving away the store! Please do not help the RATs out like this! I much prefer that they stay in circular firing squad mode for the next four years.


3 posted on 11/07/2004 5:20:49 AM PST by RKV ( He who has the guns, makes the rules)
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I'm having soooooo much fun watching these people as they busy themselves reading the tea leaves and eating their young on the C-Span panels.


4 posted on 11/07/2004 5:27:55 AM PST by Yaco (split up and charge both ways !!)
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I tend to just shake my head as Libs use "Fly-Over Country" and "Red Neck" in the same sentence. Having grown up and lived a major portion of my life in Indiana, I worked as a Mortgage Broker. It was always funny when these East coast companies would come to town thinking they were gonna give us a run for our money. In every case they were sent packing. James Dean, Jane Pauley, Michael Jackson, David Letterman (although I'm not proud of any of them) and a lot more came from "hicksville". I moved to California and The fat-necked liberal men and the clip-haired, scarved-necked liberal females are easy to spot.
They are the ones with their nose in the air...
...while flyover country has it's nose to the grind stone.
5 posted on 11/07/2004 5:28:41 AM PST by sierrahome (Proud member of the Geo. W. Bush Reelection Team)
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There came a point in this particular election process when I simply shut the left's opinion out...

Several weeks ago, I posted about how I found it enjoyable to debate politics with an intelligent liberal. An intelligent liberal really feels from his/her heart and has valid, debatable points.

These debates never came down to name-calling and insults.

This mostly happened on a political website from my old hometown.

Then I began getting insulting emails and pictures from my left-wing in-laws. They would not entertain debate at all. They were the epitome of the irrational..."The Earth is doomed"..."Bush is Hitler"...""If we get attacked, it's the right's fault"...etc, etc, etc.

Scary.
6 posted on 11/07/2004 5:30:24 AM PST by baltodog (I wasn't built for comfort, I was built for speed.)
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Skerry:

Out of touch, out of mind, out of reality, traitor to his country, a leech in the Senate, wrong values, wrong actions and words, disrespectful, nutzo "scumbag" wife....
7 posted on 11/07/2004 5:38:13 AM PST by Dallas59 ("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
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We are off to our Mega church. I hope that we have a big praise and thank you service this morning.


8 posted on 11/07/2004 5:38:52 AM PST by Coldwater Creek ("we voted like we prayed")
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There came a point in this particular election process when I simply shut the left's opinion out...

Apparently, you were joined by several millions.....who also had the same in-laws.


9 posted on 11/07/2004 5:40:35 AM PST by Yaco (split up and charge both ways !!)
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Then I began getting insulting emails and pictures from my left-wing in-laws. They would not entertain debate at all. They were the epitome of the irrational..."The Earth is doomed"..."Bush is Hitler"...""If we get attacked, it's the right's fault"...etc, etc, etc.

To me, the most fascinating aspect of these hateful people is the betrayal of their own best interest. My brother's father in law is a retired surgeon,and a professor emeritus at a university. We had what was probably our very last conversation with him before the election. He was an ABB drone.

I asked him, "How could a physician support a consortium of malpractice lawyers?" No real response.

After a futile hour, I closed by saying, "I am not in academia, nor do I belong to the AMA, so I am therefore free to arrive at my own opinions, without fear of losing tenure, or otherwise being strongarmed by the Secret Police, or by being told what to think by the New York Times."

10 posted on 11/07/2004 5:41:46 AM PST by Gorzaloon (This is the first of the new KERRY-FREE ™ Taglines. Babylon is Fallen.)
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“New Yorkers are more sophisticated and at a level of consciousness where we realize we have to think of globalization, of one mankind, that what’s going to injure masses of people is not good for us,” said Joseph, as he shared coffee and cigarettes with Cohn at an outdoor cafe.

You cannot get funnier that this. This guy is a grown up? A retired psychiatrist? This guy's is dummer than crap and he thinks he is more intelligent than thou, it is beyond hysterical.

11 posted on 11/07/2004 5:45:00 AM PST by beckaz (Fight them THERE and NOW. HERE and LATER will only cost more lives.)
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These articles should be censored. “ When the enemy is making mistakes why interrupt him or give him aid”


12 posted on 11/07/2004 5:45:48 AM PST by cynicalman
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To: Gorzaloon

These articles should be censored. “ When the enemy is making mistakes why interrupt him or give him aid”


13 posted on 11/07/2004 5:45:49 AM PST by cynicalman
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To: Gorzaloon

These articles should be censored. “ When the enemy is making mistakes why interrupt him or give him aid”


14 posted on 11/07/2004 5:45:50 AM PST by cynicalman
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"In Joseph’s words, Bush voters are “obtuse,” “short-sighted,” “shoot-from-the-hip” ."

Better than shooting from the rear (smirking like crazy)


15 posted on 11/07/2004 5:47:29 AM PST by SunnySide
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Your posts should be censored...so that you only post them once :)


16 posted on 11/07/2004 5:49:58 AM PST by Diverdogz
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don't worry....be happy. These people are completely incapable of recognizing what is right in front of their face. It could be (and will be, over and over now) explained to them what actually happened, but they will not see it and therefor will continue in the irrecoverable spin-in taking them to irrelevancy. What we have to do now is figure out how to isolate them like an organism isolating a virus.


17 posted on 11/07/2004 5:56:38 AM PST by Yaco ("split up and charge both ways !!" NB Forrest)
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"The folks who reelected Bush not only voted for the man they felt best represents their interests, but also against a culture they see as alien and hostile."

That's it. That's all she needed to write.

18 posted on 11/07/2004 6:15:55 AM PST by BobS
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Bravo Kathleen!

I know the many sides of America. I live in Boston and have for 40 years. I grew up in the inner-city in a blue-collar home. My jobs have taken me all over the country and the world. I was also educated in some of the "elite" universities here. So, I have a foot firmly planted in blue and red America.

In blue America, it is like an echo chamber - all they hear are their own voices. The press, politicians, activists, etc., feed off and reinforce each other's opinions.

They have no idea what the real America is like or what the average American feels or thinks. It is like a nice warm cocoon and there is no great desire to see what is outside of it since it is filled with knuckle-dragging, neanderthal, monsters.

Traditional voices inside the echo chambers are oppressed. They are called racists, homophobes, Jesus freaks, bigots, intolerant, greedy, etc., etc. They are kept from expressing their opinions except through outlets like talk radio and the Net. Political correctness is forced upon them to help silence any dissent. Their children are turned against them through a systematic public school indoctrination program which dampens honest discussion even in the home.

Some leave the cocoon for a more accepting environment in a Red State while others, simply keep their mouths shut.

Red America knows what blue America is all about because they have it forced fed to them everyday through the media. They know it and now, they have rejected it as never before.

The good news is, the open-minded, diversity loving fascistic liberals don't get it at all and are not likely to any time soon. This guarantees Republican control over the Federal Government for generations to come. This increased national power holds out hope that the the oppressed majority stuck inside these cocoons will find a way to rise up and be heard.


19 posted on 11/07/2004 6:19:01 AM PST by PajamaTruthMafia
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Good comment! My Dad is not really a conservative and not really a liberal...
I decline to criticize.At least he refuses to applaud the loony left!

Bill K


20 posted on 11/07/2004 6:19:02 AM PST by traitorsclaw
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