Geez. Probably up there posting pics on sorryeverybody.com like a big wuss.
Posted on 11/17/2004 7:59:46 AM PST by Rummyfan
The New Jonestown People flock to the all-decent-persons-are-revolted-by-Bush cult.
By Mark Steyn
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article appears in the November 29, 2004, issue of National Review.
The day after the election, I found myself behind a Vermont granolamobile bearing the sticker Bush Scares Me. And stuck in its wake on a winding country road, I found myself more bemused by its message with every passing mile. Even given the general emotional exhibitionism of the Democratic party — "I feel your pain," etc. — it seems very odd to go around advertising one's fear. When I was tootling around the Sunni Triangle last year, I was a little twitchy in the dodgier parts of Fallujah and Tikrit, but I don't think it would have helped matters to paste Baathists Scare Me to the back of my beat-up rental car. When fear's a bumper sticker, you're probably safe.
So I assumed that Vermont lady wasn't advertising her fear so much as her membership of the club: All decent persons are revolted by Bush.
But a couple of days later I wasn't so sure. A lot of Democrats seem to have succeeded in genuinely terrifying themselves. "Dejected Voters Find Themselves In An Even Bluer State," ran a Los Angeles Times headline — in its Health section: "'People are in absolute post-traumatic stress and total despair and pretty much believe American society is permanently destroyed,' says Renana Brooks, a Washington, D.C., clinical psychologist whose practice was flooded with calls on Wednesday morning . . . It looks to me like a worse trauma than 9/11." According to the San Francisco Chronicle in its post-Election Day roundup, "Of the eight patients San Francisco psychotherapist Frances Verrinder saw Wednesday, seven were upset and frightened to the point of tears . . . Vicki Cormack found her neighbor on her knees, weeping. Ron Armstrong of San Francisco is waiting for his upstairs tenant to come out of his depression so he can ask him for the rent check . . ."
Can someone link Jay Leno's interview of "Bush"
Thanks for the ping, Pokey, and thanks, CD, for the full article. The "tease" just whetted my appetite.
Good one! :-)
Steyn has mentioned this a couple times now but so far as I know, he hasn't said how President Bush could have accomplished this. Given the mental illness of such a large segment of our society, it's hard to see how anyone could achieve such a thing.
I don't think he could have done that, either. I think he was right on to make no mention of politics during that horrible time.
In fact, I think W's political instincts are usually spot on. He takes advantage of the opportunities he's given, and he doesn't push beyond the limits he sees. This election gives him far more opportunity than he had in his first term, and he seems to be poised to take advantage of it.
Yes, if President Bush follows through on his domestic initiatives, and continues show courage in prosecuting the war on terror, he could make it very difficult for the Dems to win elections in the future. Social Security, for example, could become a Republican issue for decades to come.
I guess it was I mentioned the Thousand Year Republican Reich that Professor Wilentz became a bit unhinged...
Bump for mañana
Nanny nanny boo boo, you guys lost!
Checkmate ;-)
The Dems already have to be scared. If they try to block the initiatives Bush campaigned on, or his judicial nominees, their candidates in 2006 could get swamped.
I think Bush has the courage to stick with his agenda.
The Dems will have to move to the right if they want to continue to be a viable party. I think that's to the good. This Leftist version of the Dems isn't good for the country.
Ah, the War on Drugs. Yeah, I'm about to surrender on that one too. At least on pot.
This so called "trauma" that these morons claim to be suffering from is just one more piece of evidence that liberalism is, truly, a mental disorder.
Geez. Probably up there posting pics on sorryeverybody.com like a big wuss.
Thanks for the ping.
There is a high probability that anti-terror and security legislation like (yes) The Patriot Act will be turned toward political opposition under the pretense of terrorism. Remember one of the keys of psychological projection is to accuse your opponent of that which you would think yourself. Psychological projection is a Hallmark Calling Card of liberalism. That the liberals talk so openly and so often of assassination is telling. Rest assured that someone like Mark Steyn, for writing an article like this during the term of a sitting Democrat president, could very well be accused and held on charges of terroristic threats, whether valid or not.
From the Democrat perspective they will have suffered soooo long under the boot of the evil Republicans, that anything will go to ensure it never happens again. They would presumably use the unchecked, and now virtually uncheckable, executive branch alphabet agencies to a degree which we cannot fathom. Political opposition, pundits, anyone in the way would be a target. Anything that threatened their power base would be harrassed, intimidated, or eliminated.
We heard a lot about how this was the most important election of our generation, and this is true - until the next one. And the one after that. We have to win them all. They have to win once.
Sounds a bit like terrorism to me.
JFK stole the election and hung the Cubans out to dry at the Bay of Pigs, Johnson was too cowed by protestors to win the Vietnam War, the MSM and Hillary Rodham Clinton hounded Nixon out of the Presidency, Carter was an embarrassment for letting a few "students" hold this country hostage and Bill Clinton was a permanent stain on the most powerful office of the most powerful country in the world as he frittered away eight years of this country's possibilities. I don't regret any pain that Democrats feel right now.
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