“So do I. You take your life into your hands if you say you are a Republican in LA.”
I just heard one of the most brilliant pieces of humorous political writing I’ve ever heard, and it was on National Public Radio!
A guy named Don Long (I believe) who’s a Hollywood screenwriter and a lifelong Republican did a piece with music to describe California Republicans for today’s pivotal primary. It was wonderful. He took listeners on an aural journey around the state and talked about all the different types of Republicans in California, from Orange County Nixon Republicans to central coast Reagan Republicans to Silicon Valley dot.com young entrepreneur Facebook widget Republicans to super-rich “death tax” San Diego and Beverley Hills Republicans to central Valley Mexican immigrant evangelical Republicans to northern California country-western traditional values conservatives first, Republicans second, to LA and Marin County Schwarzenegger Republicans who drop their gay sons and daughters off at the yogurt shop they manage and swear their love for Arnold as “a true conservative!”
He ended the piece by saying something like: it used to be that there was a little bit of America in every California Republican, now there’s a little bit of California in every Republican. I wish everyone on Free Republic could have heard his work. I loved it.