(Letter to Boston Globe) A cautionary note to Democrats

The Boston Globe ^ | 4/03/05 | John Ranta

[attiladhun2]

Demonically
Empowered
Maniac
Overtly
Creating
Riot
And
Treason

[attiladhun2]

Same thing happened in Iowa. For years it was a solid Republican state. Over the years liberal Minnesotans have been moving there to escape the high tax rate of that Worker's Republic.

[Yardstick]

THERE'S NO need for me to add to the many critiques pointing out the hypocrisy, narrow-mindedness and self-imposed ignorance of fundamentalist Christian voters like the Wilkersons (''For family, religion shapes politics," Page A1, March 29).

Ah, to be a liberal sometimes. It must be nice to have the press carry water for you on the front page. Liberals don't have to go out of their way to have their point of view validated. The press serves it up to them on a silver platter. Just imagine what it would be like to have a biased rendering of some liberal family, one that confirmed your perception of them as narrow-minded ignorant hypocrites, appear on page A1 of a major paper. It'd never happen. Yet most liberals think press is aligned against them. They don't know how good they have it.

And on the subject of Democrats pandering to Christians -- where is the outrage on the Left when their candidates stop by an urban church during election season to preach the statist gospel, supported by scraps of (gasp!) Christian scripture? It's funny how liberals will accept the putting forward of theological arguments -- which they would otherwise dismiss as well, theological -- when such arguments support positions and programs they agree with.

I think liberals are very selective in their rejection of the theological and the "simplistic". For them, any means that serves the end of socialism is acceptable. If red-state Christians suddenly decided that scripture supported the establishment of a socialist healthcare system, the Left would be more than happy to let that reasoning stand (of course, to be fair, I guess if the Left decided it would be in the interests of "social justice" to privatize social security, I wouldn't try to talk them out of it ;).

[muir_redwoods]

You tell 'em John, make sure they don't change a thing in their playbook. As far as we're all concerned the democrats are doing just what they should be doing.

Losing

[perfect stranger]

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[6SJ7]

I pick up the Globe usually once a week or so...

Would that be when you need to change the birdcage liner?

[NativeNewYorker]

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[perfect stranger]

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[NativeNewYorker]

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[packrat35]

I LIKE THE WAY YOUR UNCLE THINKS.

[An American Patriot]

"Next time, the GOP candidate won't be a cowboy and the RAT won't be from Mass-we'll be red again."

I wouldn't bet the farm (or your Social Security) on that.

I'm a "seasoned citizen," and a native of Vermont. I watched our state go from bedrock Republican to dyed-in-the-wool, far-left, "Socialism."

It began innocently enough (much as has been happening in N.H.) with flat-landers moving up here for the "better quality of life."

What they did was bring with them their culture, mores, liberal agendas, etc. and were extremely successful in infiltrating every aspect of local and state agencies (from school and zoning boards) as well as all facets of local and state-elected offices.

It mushroomed and took on a life of its own, with the arrival of "Bernie" and his clique.

They mounted an all out offensive, culminating with their "piece de resistance," the changing of statutes, giving the "right to vote" (in state and local elections) to out-of-state students.

Don't be so sure that the last election (contrary to what you characterize as a contest between a RAT--as a Vietnam Vet, I preferred to refer to him as a "TRAITOR--and someone from Texas, who you infer was an "actor/comedian?"--don't ge that one) is a harbinger of things to come.

You may find yourself doing as I intend to do: MOVE.

My Mom, sadly, passed away recently and now that I no longer have any obligation or responsibility in that respect, I am preparing to move somewhere else--somewhere, where I will feel more comfortable with my conservative philosophy.

As an aside, you might want to do a little "due diligence," on the demographics of your (once) wonderful, conservative state. Yes, while its true that the demonrats have been migrating to southern N.H., it has been reported that many (of the same political bent) have been moving from Vermont to norther N.H.

That's a "double whammy" and a curse on N.H.

[Redleg Duke]

Peterborough, NH is a boil of Communism in the "Live Free or Die" state.

[perfect stranger]

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[Jim Noble]

someone from Texas, who you infer was an "actor/comedian?

Not at all.

I just mean that President Bush's persona is about as far away from "Yankee" as you can get. There are states where "Some people say I swagger. In Texas we call it walkin'" wins votes. NH isn't one of them.

If you look at a county map, Bush won the MA border counties. He lost big along the VT border and north of the notches.

You make some good points, though.

[whereasandsoforth]

"Such a shift would lose as many voters for the Democrats as it might gain."

So they really have nothing to lose, but stand a chance of gaining a better quaility of voter. Not much of an argument, is it?

[AmericanChef]

Gadz, what a dimwit.

[ozzymandus]

Leftists are idiots, and love to prove it. Calling conservatives ignorant bigots and fundamentalists isn't much of an argument.

[CFC__VRWC]

I have long believed that the Boston Globe falsifies many letters to the editor.

I'm not going to say that newspapers are making up letters to the editor out of whole cloth. But, there's no doubt that they're being spammed by professional letter-to-the editor writers who just happen to be democrat party activists working off a general script, probably handed down from the DNC. And the papers not only know what's going on, they encourage it by printing the letters without question.

How else to explain that on any given day, the same basic letter, with only minor variations in phrasing, regional indicators, etc. shows up on hundreds of op/ed pages across the country?