Posted on 11/15/2006 5:11:38 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Democratic victory last week has our political elites in both parties and in the national media squealing like stuck pigs. Way to go, America, we may be on the way.
It seems nothing frightens our free trade and pro-illegal immigration orthodoxies more than putting the common good and the national interest above dominant special interests, corporate America and, of course, our darling elites in both political parties and the media.
The Bush administration long ago took polemics and false choices to a high art form. On the issue of the war in Iraq, this administration has starkly defined our choices, until recently, as "stay the course" or "cut and run." Any critic of our conduct of this war, like me, has been declared unpatriotic. Any critic of this administration's faith-based economic policies that drive its free-trade agenda, like me, has been labeled an economic isolationist.
But now the name-calling and labeling is reaching a new level, and from all quarters. The political, business and media elites have called me a "table-thumping protectionist" because I want balanced and mutual trade, because I want this country to export as much as it imports. They've called me a racist, nativist xenophobe because, in order to win the war on terror, the war on drugs and to stop illegal immigration, I want our borders and ports secured.
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"They've called me a racist, nativist xenophobe because, in order to win the war on terror, the war on drugs and to stop illegal immigration, I want our borders and ports secured."
Sorry the RATS called you this. It is called eating their own. Deal with it.
I do. I don't watch you.
Lou who?
Is CNN still on?
I'm sorry, I'm belaboring the obvious.
Okay. So who want to read political commentary from someone who doesn't even have an opinion he can call his own?
Populism deserves very little respect.
Lou: You're an IDIOT....deal with it.
"Thankfully, I'm rich and well-connected enough not to have to care if I get smeared. As for the rest of you, well..."
How come I don't recall all the outrage when Billary was in the White House and the policies on illegal immigration and trade were the same?
Look at stupid me I am a socialist, I am a socialist OH I mean I am a POPULIST> Orwellian speek sssssssssshhhhhhhh.
"Populist" -- a fancy term for demagogue.
Exactly.
does this guy actually believe this?
Great article. Thanks for a good post.
populist = nativist socialist
Does anybody read the articles or just the few paragraphs you post?
"Populist"- dismissive, negative term used by elites for opinions that don't conform.
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