In our divisions, we should feel pain By JOEL CONNELLY (WARNING: HARDCORE SEATTLE LIBERAL)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | Friday, October 28, 2005 | JOEL CONNELLY

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P-I columnist Joel Connelly can be reached at 206-448-8160 or joelconnelly@seattlepi.com.

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joelconnelly@seattlepi.com.

[WayneM]

Actuall, I doubt he CAN EVER be reached.

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[crazyhorse691]

Nowadays, the Emerald City votes 75 percent Democrat in presidential elections

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And 105% in gubernatorial elections.

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Seattle ping

[taxesareforever]

Just a another stamp on why I do not subscribe to Seattle newspapers.

[Clemenza]

Until the early 1970s, Seattle was a rather staid "company town" who's existence was centered around Boeing. As a result, it did have some Republican enclaves, although it still leaned Democratic. Well, a bunch of folks in California (the Bay Area in particular) saw that they could sell their house for a ton of money in SF and buy a bigger place in Seattle.

Although housing prices have now skyrocketed to near San Francisco levels, the loony lefties remain firmly in control.

[Billthedrill]

Joel, if you're reading this, it was me who sent you the following.

I just read your editorial of 28 October, and Joel, you couldn't be more wrong. The divisions among us are largely a product of orchestrated character assassinations on the part of a vicious, partisan left whose adherents hypocritically recoil from it when it is reacted to in kind. This has been going on for a very long time now - shall we recall the campaigns against Newt Gingrich and Henry Hyde when we are shaking our fingers at the "Bush Boys?"

Personally I welcome a little division at the moment, Joel, because your side of the aisle stinks from thirty years' worth of uncollected political garbage. We, not you, constitute the progressive forces in the world today. We, not you, have freed 50 million people while your best efforts have been to wasted in derision and obstruction. We, not you, will see Iraq to a representative government and you will do nothing but carp, criticize, mischaracterize, and pretend that you were right all along.

This is the same pretense your side slid into in the waning days of Vietnam, a treacly moral certitude that was wrong then and is wrong now. You allied yourselves with tyrants then and doomed the people of Vietnam to three decades of hell. You have allied yourselves with worse this time. Everything you pretend that you stand for - freedom, equal rights, openness of communication and of thought and of worship - all of that stands to lose if the side you're supporting wins. You have forfeited your ideals, your integrity, your soul. The left looks as it does these days not through any Rovian manipulation, but because it wants to.

[philo]

Yep, the great I-5 migration of the 80's. Us East-siders feel very alone.

Remember Connelly actually wrote a biography of Jim McDermott

[crazyhorse691]

Pretty much that is what has happened to Portland.

[Publius]

Beautifully stated.

[goodnesswins]

RAH RAH...BTD.....That is GREAT!

[Ramius]

Brilliantly done.

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Have you heard back from Joel?

[JRios1968]

As James Taranto in OpinionJournal.com's Best of the Web Today likes to say: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Intelligent as a post!)

[Just Lori]

Thanks for the ping. I'm going to go throw up now.

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Don't forget to drop Joel a line:

206-448-8160 or joelconnelly@seattlepi.com

[nutmeg]

Well, a bunch of folks in California (the Bay Area in particular) saw that they could sell their house for a ton of money in SF and buy a bigger place in Seattle.

Although housing prices have now skyrocketed to near San Francisco levels, the loony lefties remain firmly in control.

Thanks for the mini history lesson about Seattle... I've been there once, but admit I don't know much about the area, nor its political makeup.

Sounds like the same thing that's happened back east... NYC-area lefties have moved to Vermont, Westchester County NY, Fairfield County CT, etc. and now pretty much control these formerly conservative/non-liberal areas.