Posted on 05/04/2007 9:01:07 PM PDT by chasio649
Is this idiot forgetting that slick willy was also from a southern state??
Graybeard58 wrote: “Unadulterated horse s***.”
Agreed. The author, Richard Baehr, is a Rudynista. One of his articles is titled “Don’t Bet Against Rudy.”
Perhaps he’s whistling past the graveyard.
"I'm sick of this type of political set up. I want people who go to Washington to retain their rights and citizenship and be able to talk whenever they want to. Our culture is set up for individual rights, and just because the Southern mentality is clever at stifling that, does not mean we need our national representation hamstrung in the name of Southern Culture."
REALLY?? And how were these administrations any different from others?? FDR, Harry Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, (I won't go into Johnson, because he was "southern") ALL did the same kinds of things).
What nonsense. Clinton's "Southern roots" weren't a problem nor are Hillary's transplanted ones. The candidate the Dems would love to nominate is Gore, another Southerner. The South is the GOP's power base so nominating a candidate from NY or Mass would be far worse for its chances than nominating Fred Thompson.
” but Bush and Clinton both brag about their propensity for this stuff, and it’s the whole “all in the family” and “my second cousin twice removed Jed is the chief justice in this town” mentality”
Bush is a damnyankee from connecticut, as was his dad. He is not a Southerner.
You are referring to to elitists.I grew up in Connecticut and find southerners friendly and polite, two things most people in the northeast are not.
doesn’t this fly in the face of America’s (left’s) idolization of Clinton and Gore ?
I know I began to recieve negative impressions at an early age, beginning with new kids arriving in local schools, warned, by their parents, that local kids were “backward”.
I’m still friendly and polite, but I have to bite my tongue a lot. John Kerry’s goose hunt, and Hilary’s attempt to speak Geechee, are good examples for would be GOP leaders to take note of.
You are right. Fred Thompson is more electable in the Midwest than McCain or Giuliani (and certainly more so than Romney) because he can connect with populist Democrats for whom illegal immigration, right to life and the Second Amendment are important issues. He also connects with them on a personal level, because he is a down to earth, great guy and it comes through. He has a great rags to riches story, pulled himself up by his own bootstraps, started out dirt poor, and really made something out of himself (like RR). None of the other three can connect with populist Democrats like Fred. This is the key to electability in the Midwest, not whether someone lives north of Mason-Dixon.
I hope the Republicans are smart enough not to pull that kind of crap. (Although Romney already did huh?)
Horse feces. The thing about Thompson is his plain, common-sense style of speaking, which will reasonate with folks in the Midwest and even in the Northeast.
So how will nominating a RINO like Rudy appeal to these folks? They're going to vote for the Democrat everytime.
I only need one--the Kennedys. SURELY you aren't so young and ignorant that you don't know that they were worse than either Clinton or Bush (and still are).
I just know Reagan had no policy like this, but Bush and Clinton both brag about their propensity for this stuff, and it's the whole "all in the family" and "my second cousin twice removed Jed is the chief justice in this town" mentality."
So, having family connections is bad??
"I've had enough of it."
And I've had enough of ignorant, south-bashing Yankees. Since you don't list your home state, I can only assume the last, but I'm certain about the first two.
You don’t understand how powerful the “mainstream” media and the Hollywood entertainment empire are in molding opinion in this country. There are otherwise-sane people who have a bias against Southern accents, especially after 8 years of GWB. I don’t like it, but them’s the breaks.
Why can’t you respond without using a vulgar metaphor?
Saying my point is “horse feces” doesn’t help your point one iota.
I don’t agree that there is something wrong with Southern culture. If anything, I tend to think Northeasterners (other things being equal) are more authoritarian and less respectful of others’ ways than Southerners are. But that may be true only of liberals in the Northeast.
“Fred Thompson and the GOP’s Southern Problem”
What a truly bigoted thing to say. But of course to the socialist and multiculturalist this hypocritical double standard is perfectly OK. Up yours to any and all who think this!
Bah! Will have little or no effect on a guy like Fred Thompson.
Why can’t you respond without using a vulgar metaphor?
I said "feces," didn't I? I didn't use the profane term.
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