Pursue Happiness, Vote GOP (Pete Du Pont On Why Voting GOP Makes You Happier)

Opinionjournal.com ^ | 11/29/04 | Pete Du Pont

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If the Democratic Party allows itself to be defined by Ted Kennedy, Michael Moore and the editorial page of the New York Times, while Republicans, their president and their strengthened congressional majorities encourage the pursuit of happiness in an opportunity and ownership society, then Mr. and Mrs. America will make sure conservatives are in power for a great many years to come.

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We're the party of the pursuit of happiness. Pete Du Pont lays out the reasons why voting GOP makes you happier. Indeed, as we Americans are by nature and character fundamentally a happy people.

[Rockitz]

I voted for this guy when he ran for president. When was that? After reading this, I'd vote for him again. It's unfortunate that he probably couldn't win a senate seat in Delaware.

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The way Blue America looks down on Flyover Country can be neatly summarized in the following two paragraphs:

Blue-collar Americans believe liberals are anti-Christian and seek to suppress all public expression of religious beliefs, including school prayer. That they are amoral--or, as Irving Kristol once said, a liberal is someone who thinks it is all right for an 18-year-old girl to perform in a porn film so long as she is paid the minimum wage.

Liberals see themselves as self appointed Robin Hoods, but they are seen by red-county Americans as taking from the productive and giving to the indolent. They look down on average Americans as misguided and too dumb to know what is good for them and their families. Since such people are unlikely to make the right decisions, a wise government must do it for them. And of course the bigger the government, the better.

A keeper. And Jesse Jackson keeps wondering why his side lost again.

[still_learning]

Are Democrats so thick that they can not see that what they propose is socialism? Or are they simple evil?

Socialism, Communism and Facism only differ in the details of the ownership rules. They all allow strong centralized buracracies to control details of people lives that no part of the government should even be permitted to have knowledge.

[SeenTheLight]

Liberals are the most miserable people I know. It's all doom and gloom...

[blondee123]

Blue-collar Americans believe liberals are anti-Christian and seek to suppress all public expression of religious beliefs, including school prayer. That they are amoral--or, as Irving Kristol once said, a liberal is someone who thinks it is all right for an 18-year-old girl to perform in a porn film so long as she is paid the minimum wage.

Gee, this guy must have been reading the DUmmie board, he is spot on with his assessment~!

[blondee123]

Liberals are the most miserable people I know. It's all doom and gloom...

sKerrys campaign was nothing but negativity, no wonder he lost. Any party that approves of abortion & wants to raise taxes, has no platform to run on & their only platform was to talk negatively about the sitting President, is in sorry shape!

If you've ever wandered over to the DUmmie board, you come away with such a feeling of their hatefulness, you feel dirty & tainted just from reading posts there!

[LowCountryJoe]

Conversely, the Democratic Party is the party of centralization, believing that a wise and benevolent, best-and-brightest, urban blue-county government can make better choices than those of rural, red-county Americans. This is not a new belief; it is the legacy of the 1930s (the New Deal) and the '60s (the Great Society). It was fully reflected in John Kerry's campaign: Taxes must rise and government must grow; trade must be regulated and limited; the 1935 Social Security system is perfect and nothing about it may be changed.

These sentiments sound like ideals from some FReepers I converse with.

[Last Dakotan]

Who else but the Federal government can police trade agreements? Two guys running a storefront operation of any kind aren't too likely to get a hearing in front of the WTO.

[Seadog Bytes]

EXCELLENT ARTICLE!!!

THANK you for posting it!

   

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