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Dyspepsia on the Right
New York Times ^ | February 4, 2008 | By WILLIAM BRISTOL

Posted on 02/04/2008 10:53:49 AM PST by TinaJeannes

The prospect of John McCain as the likely Republican presidential nominee has produced a squall of anger on the right. Normally reserved columnists and usually ebullient talk-radio hosts vie to express their disgust with McCain, and their disdain for the Republicans who are about to nominate him. The conservative movement as a whole appears disgruntled and dyspeptic.

Now I have nothing against a certain amount of disgruntlement and dyspepsia. The ways of the world, and the decisions of our fellow Americans, occasionally warrant such a reaction.

But American politics tends to be unkind to movements that dwell in anger and relish their unhappiness. In the era from Franklin D. Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy, liberals tended to be happy warriors — and that helped their cause. The original civil rights movement succeeded in part because it worked hard to transcend a justifiable bitterness. Liberalism faltered when it became endlessly aggrieved and visibly churlish.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mccain
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To: TinaJeannes

Drink the Koolaid, and all will be well my little ones.


141 posted on 02/05/2008 6:20:59 AM PST by strongbow
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To: Greg F

“Republicans won’t control the Senate next term.”

So long as they have enough to successfully fillibuster, it doesn’t really matter. Although the GOP might find itself with less than that number.


142 posted on 02/05/2008 6:51:07 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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To: TinaJeannes
Hunter would have been a good choice also. But the majority of the people who voted must not have thought so.

Much as I have seen on CNN and elsewhere, first the wide shot, then zoom in to the two or three candidates they want to discuss, leaving the conservative(s) 'on the cutting room floor'. It was done with the most conservative, the next most conservative, and the third most conservative, ad infinitum. Now we have Republiberals as the contenders, which is what the kingmakers at the MSM wanted all along.

We may gleefully chortle about the "New Media" and the dinosaur media, but they still are piped into the majority of living rooms.

No one will vote for the people they have not heard of, no matter how bad the known alternatives, and the MSM has done their best to make sure conservative candidates stayed off the national radar.

Thankfully, this is still a relatively free country, and for now, I am free enough to be thoroughly disgusted.

143 posted on 02/05/2008 10:01:46 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: lapster

144 posted on 02/05/2008 10:02:29 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Enough has been said already. The 2008 GOP RINO takeover is complete. It is what it is.)
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