Look, he won.The GOP now owns the White House, the Senate, the House, most of the governorships, and soon will have the Supreme Court. And in two years, we'll have the 60 votes we need to get business done. People don't want what the Democrats are selling. It's a marketplace. Your can of beans has been judged as inferior. And your response? Call your consumers idiots, and relable the same can of beans for the next time, when it will be the same product it was...and older.
This week, I have listened to Democrats, who wail about "tolerance", call me an idiot. My Christian faith has been belittled, my beliefs pooh-poohed, and my values dismissed. I have never seen such a bunch of sore losers in my life, except last time your candidates were tossed out. And when I flip on the radio, looking for Mr. Folksy Mark Twain, I get the same ridicule. Tonight, I was likened to a witch.
Garrison, you have witnessed the decline, crash and burn of the Democratic Party. Your Party was founded on protecting the little guy; it helped bust the trusts and bring down the robber barons. FDR cared about small town values, and worked to protect the weak. And yet, the New Democratic Party defended a rich, powerful white guy who abused and possibly raped women. You ignored a little thing called perjury; Hell, most of your congressmen wouldn't even walk to the Ford building to view the evidence. FDR wouldn't know you people. And then, when a majority of American voters says your values aren't theirs, you snidely make fun of them, because of course, the majority only rules when it confirms the New Democratic Values.
Brother, I listened for twenty years. I know the people in Lake Woebegon like my own family. And you have gone from being a kind, gentle teller of folk stories into just another bitter Democrat. But that's OK. Because what I always suspected has become true. Democrats will never wake up and sell what people want. Zell Miller is the best hope you have, and you snub his counsel. You, and the Clintons, and Democratic leadership will go right on relabeling that same old can of beans that nobody wants to buy. And speaking as a Republican, that's just fine. You can call the beans Progressive, but they're just reheated Liberal.
A year or so ago, you created a song that proclaimed "We're all Republican now!" Well, not quite. Only about 52% of us. But give us some time. Any keep right on doing what you do. And feel free to go right on making fun of more than half of us. See how that plays out in '08.
you should send this as an Op Ed to the Twin Cities rags.
Regarding #72... Hear hear!! Well said.
I've listened to PHC a lot, and enjoyed the heck out of it... but increasingly had the sneaking suspicion that Keiller was sniggering up his sleeve at the Christians who listened to his show. His own personal issues came out more in his writings, then in his stories. It's not difficult to see how the Donks deaden his conscience about his own moral choices.
It's sad. Unlike, I guess, a lot of FReepers, I think he's very talented. But unfortunately also bitter, hateful, spiteful, petty, ignorant, and God-haunted.
Dan
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