The Undead, and friend
Posted on 09/14/2008 1:02:49 PM PDT by oldtimer2
'we can all engage in stealth activism/!
The author is excellent at conjuring up visual images. Stretched my education a bit, though. I had to perform two Google searches to fill in some gaps (Dorian Gray and Charnel house).
“in the last fortnight, hoever, i have come to the place where the whole sorry spectacle and circus of the democrats
has finally filled me with disgust and revulsion.”
socialists with no manners, no sense of propriety, with egos the size of the grand canyon, with a sense of self-appointed brilliance, who badger and carp, who push and berate, who go about the country demeaning people who have faith, sometimes have a tendency to be obnoxious phalluses who disgust people and make them sick.
the question is, what took him so long to get fed up?
IMHO
Like the writer, I, too, was a Democrat, back in my younger years. It took Carter's "malaise" of double-digit inflation, stagnation, a pervading sense of doom and gloom that America was weak and faltering, contrasted with the bright, optimistic, clear, decisive message of Ronald Reagan. And to use that well-worn phrase, it was like the clouds had parted and the sun burst forth for the first time in many years.
Sarah Palin has brought that magic back again. The old and decayed false logic of the left leads to despair, but it is easily vanquished by those who know how to cut through it. It isn't difficult. To banish the darkness, one merely needs to light a lamp. Why it has been so excruciatingly difficult to find another lamp-bearer, has been the source of frustration to so many of us these past years. Rush Limbaugh has been adamant and correctly so that this is all it would take. We just needed someone to step up and call the fools on their own game, and tell it like it is. Sarah Palin, out of the clear blue just popped up and started doing that very thing.
I feel so relieved. I haven't felt this good about our countries prospects since 1980, and what a great feeling it is!
My family was always Democrat. So was I many years ago. But I grew out of it. I think in some ways the transition from Liberal to Conservative is the natural order of things. Winston Churchill believed so anyway.
What is happening now in terms of people waking up from the dream of deciet offered by the Democrats is different, in that it occurs outside the slow growth normally reserved for the transition from liberal to conservative.
The behavior of the left, mainly in the response to Palin, is so jarring to anyone not frothing at the mouth from years of “Progressive” Kool-aid, that it prompts this realization.
The lashing out has been that of a spoiled infant, and seeing such behavior in the supposed adults in media and on the left elicits a visceral defense response from healthy adults. Something has gone horribly wrong, even if you can't articulate exactly what it is.
If the strain of defeatist, valueless, vile hate and lust for power at any cost infesting the Democrat party is not exorcised very soon, they are finished as a political force in this country. Or we are finished as a country. It is definitely one or the other.
Sarah Palin probably learned all she needs to know about the Democrat Party from hearing about Alaskan garbage eating bears.
mark
“I feel so relieved. I haven’t felt this good about our countries prospects since 1980, and what a great feeling it is!”
I agree, but keep in mind that the Obamanation is still ahead in all of the electoral voter counts. This thing isn’t over yet.
First and foremost, we need to convince those conservatives who want to sit this one out or vote for Barr to back McCain/Palin. Not just to keep the Obamanation out, but to give Mrs. Palin the chance to win in 2012, which would be a true Reagan Moment.
Politics is a profession founded on and fueled by hypocrisy. This we all know. But, at the same time, we also need a politics that somewhere within it has a shred of uncompromised decency, the understanding of honor, and more than a little courage. None of these qualities exists in the Democratic Party today.
This made me think of Joe Lieberman and how he was forced ultimately to leave the party. Because he embodied such qualities that the party as a whole did not, he was tarred and feathered and treated with vileness. His honorable, upright, patriotic behavior shined a light on the Democrats darkness and their acrid hate for their own country. I am so glad we could honor him at our Republican convention for his conviction and courage.
Although the Republicans have their own issues that need to be spotlit, I feel that in the majority of the base is a sense of conviction, courage, straight talk, sense of Godliness, honor, patriotism and on and on that allows us to hold our own leaders feet to the fire. This has been sorely missing from the Democrats. The foundation they have built upon is not one with conviction for what this country was founded upon, in fact it has been laid with the concrete of what it was founded against.
Sidenote: Progressive = Socialist/Marxist policies. Wheneven anyone says, "I am a progressive," I apply the definition above. Although I like the progressively vile disgusted in this article as well.
Kudos the the writer! I love someone who has the courage and humility to say in essense, "we have lost our way." That takes balls and is admirable. Great article. Thank you for posting.
Wow. Right ON and also brilliantly written.
It was bound to happen a core-less party just does not work.
Forrest Gore and his keeper!
Great post you speak for a lot of us.
Portrait of Dorian Gray
I’m glad you picked up on the author’s allusion to the greatest science fiction movie ever made.
But who’s Anne Francis? Not Sarah! The id-monster is not trying to protect her.
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