Posted on 01/18/2005 2:40:00 PM PST by swilhelm73
Washington Post reporter David Von Drehle unveiled a long Post Magazine article this weekend discovering (among other things) ignorance in the Red States. He found an old lady in Oklahoma named Joyce Smith who he clearly thought had her curlers on too tight: "She was too polite to say, in so many words, that she felt John Kerry was a man of bad morals. Instead, she put it this way: 'When Kerry said he was for abortion and one-sex marriages, I just couldn't see our country being led by someone like that.'" Von Drehle felt compelled to "correct" the woman for the record: "Later, I double-checked what Kerry had said on those subjects. During his campaign, he opposed same-sex marriage and said that abortion was a private matter. But Joyce Smith heard it the way she heard it, and voted the way she voted...."
Von Drehle did not want to consider Kerry's actual voting record instead of just his campaign-trail chatter. Kerry may not have said he opposed what proponents call "gay marriage," but he has a perfect 100 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay-left lobby, including his 1996 vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. Kerry is also a regular 100-percenter for NARAL Pro-Choice America. His campaign did not say abortion was a "private matter," which is still a pro-choice position, but as Kerry spokesman David Wade put it, "John Kerry's personal feelings about [Catholic] church doctrine are a private matter. He's made it clear that he's committed to upholding a woman's right to privacy, and that he wants an America where abortion is safe, legal and rare."
So the dumb hick from Oklahoma was smart enough to look at what Kerry did, not what he said. And the blue stater is arrogant enough to try and patronize them for knowing the difference.
I wonder how many black sheeple vote DUmmy because they think Republicans walk around in white sheets and hoods, no misinformation there eh?
That's hardly flip-flopping!
ayyuh, thet 'bout sums et up.
I would comment, but I am such a stupid red-neck that I dont really know how to work a keyboard anywho, much less critique the august elite like David Von Drehle.
I just hope and pray that these high-brows never do catch on.
Oviously this "hick" was to polite or "slow" to tell this arrogant little punk to STFU.
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And the arrogance continues.
One of the main reasons Kerry lost was because he tried to be all thing to all people. He never said anything straight up he always left himself a way to out. They didnt call him Flip -flop for nothing. Kerry has made a Senatorial career of riding the fence in his speech and voting liberal
dead, why did you have to go and say all that? I had just about purged that obfuscatory nonsense from my memory in the months since Dubya and Cheney trounced the Ponce and Pony.
PROUDLY ignorant (by Blue State standards) and look forward to remaining so in '06 and '08!
I hope Joyce Smith read what he said about her, and gives him what he has coming.
No. I heard the moderate claim. To me a moderate is merely a lying sack of excrement (that's hate speech) LIEBERAL that's been pinned down, too skewered to escape so he cries 'moderate'. Anything left of extremely conservative fiscally and socially is a lying sack of excrement - Bush, anyone?
Actually, it's even sweeter. The lady from Oklahoma was more knowledgeable about Kerry's positions than the Washington reporter.
These people really are stupid.
I hear ya! I wear my red state heritage with pride!
We dumb hicks seem to see through the crap. Most things in life are black and white. Gray areas should be rounded to the closest black or white. Nuanced and confused are one in the same and lead to "analysis paralysis", more commonly none as the "Liberal Disease".
I would have given them a lot more to correct than that.
I would have said "I didn't vote for John Kerry because he's a f**khead who wouldn't know the truth if it bit him on the a$$."
>>I just hope and pray that these high-brows never do catch on.
You can say that again. I hope they continue to misunderestimate us in 2006, 2008, 2010, . . . .
I wear plaid sheets.
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