“Second, Ingraham may be smart but she also has a sharp, bitter tongue. Smart people with smart tongues do not wear well over the long run. Limbaugh is tough but he’s never bitter or mean.”
You want to hear a sharp bitter tongue, vote for people who constantly say “Just vote for so and so and we’ll pay you back when it comes time to pass such and such”.
After 32 years of that horse poop being plopped on your head, you haven’t SEEN a sharp bitter tongue yet. The republicrats better get a clue or they will be wandering in the wilderness until another Moses comes along and hauls their idiot asses back to the promised land.
I can well understand and support why Laura and others like her are sharp and bitter.
Being bent over the barrel one too many times will do that to you.
Reagan, in his day, faced alot more abuse than you or I Laura Ingraham or Peggy Noonan ever did.
He had to go toe to toe with commies in the movie business.
He had to confront a liberal legislature in California.
He ran for the GOP nomination against an incumbent president. When he barely lost, he was considered to be finished. Then he went to work. His radio commentaries were an awesome preparation for the next battle.
In 1980, he was accused of being a nutcase warmonger and a lot worse. But he never got mean or bitter.
In office, he was smart and tough but gracious and kind to his political opponents like Tip O-Neill. He never even considered his opponents to be his enemies. He and Thatcher knew that with time history would vindicate their positions. Of course they were right.
Conservatives have to constantly work at teaching and explaining and persuaded. Anger and bitterness are not particularly appealing, especially when one is trying to teach and persuade and win converts to one's point of view.
Conservatives would be well served to adopt the attitude and rhetoric of Pres. Reagan. It is engaging and persuasive and winning. Laura, and those of of her ilk are, quite frankly, a little tiresome.