Posted on 10/10/2008 8:46:20 AM PDT by Numbers Guy
Nam Vet
What the he$$ has happened to National Review??? Rod Dreher, Kathleen Parker, C. Buckley, and even Kathryn Jean Lopez (and at least one more that I’m blanking on) are—very publicly—jumping on the anti-Palin bandwagon. Do they not realize or care about how that’s going to be used by people who mean harm to the U.S.? Do they not realize or care about how that’s going to upset or demoralize people who love this country? I don’t care if they truly do hate Palin with a passion, but they should be smart enough to confine their b*tc$ing to the watercooler, their personal e-mails, cocktail parties, etc. K. Parker and K-Lo can’t wave a little white flag now and claim that maybe Palin isn’t quite as bad as they wrote. Too late. You went public. By attacking Palin, you attack me by implying that I’m too stupid to see her weaknesses, like you do. And now, with C. Buckley (Krauthammer, Will) fawning all over a socialist whose friends pray for the downfall of the U.S.? Beyond despicable. Beyond stupid. National Review and NRO are no longer must-reads for me. I’m done with them.
Note to Christopher Buckley...Posing as a conservative and using your dad’s name to sell conservative down the river only works a couple of times at best. Time to start looking for a new scam.
When one is prominent, it very often does.... for attention more than anything else.
Its come down to it now. No matter what happens in the election, the elitists will be purged from the Republican Party, or they will purge the rest of us. Either way, the split is long overdue.
I will no longer share a party with people who think the highest qualification for the presidency is to be dipped in the holy waters of the Potomac, or go to the “right” schools, or use a certain vernacular and inflection in speech.
The Democrats, and now many so-called Republicans, have dropped the pretense. Since Palin, they have, in effect, said “I love poor and middle classed people as props, but I can’t stand to be around them.”
They have given up the founders’ belief in the genius of the common American people.
Let the word go forth: Those of us who came of age under Reagan will not suffer the elitists anymore. Sarah has awakened us, and your day is over.
I will. The question was rhetorical in nature and only presented to provoke conversation and debate. Thanks.
B I N G O!!!!!!!!!
LLS
Christo, were I your father, I’d be reaching for a lightning bolt right about now.
When you grew up a (barely) middle class kid going to public schools in the 1960s, chances are you had no clue that somewhere out there lived an entirely different class of kids who lived behind gates, went to school in ivy-walled edifices, and wore matching uniforms. They ate picnic lunches on perfectly manicured lawns, went to "cotillions", whatever those were, and had maids, nannies and sometimes even butlers to greet them when they arrived home.
And for their part, I'm certain they gave not a moment's thought to the world outside the gates, where kids like me rode their bikes, flipped baseball cards, and played in makeshift tree houses and abandoned cars.
In a few years time, those of us who were good enough students or bright enough or just plain damned lucky managed to get ourselves into a "prestige" college, where we met for the first time the proverbial "Other Half".
They were a an odd lot, back then (the mid 1970s), and well defined by the word "preppy": the men all had Lacoste shirts in lime green or pink worn outside their L.L. Bean shorts and Sperry Topsider boat shoes. The girls wore neat pinstriped blouses and colored hairbands and always, a string of pearls. And they all played things like squash and lacrosse and did something called "crew", whatever the hell that was. I think there was even a Crew fraternity: "Ro Dammit Ro" (That's a joke, son).
But I guess the joke was on poor schlubs like me, because when the time came to graduate and look for a job, guess who already had all of the contacts and connections in the old-money Wall Street brokerage houses and oak-paneled law firms, you know, the ones with office doors with golden handles that weighed about 200 lbs.? That's when I learned what the preppy phrase "NOKD" really meant: "Not Our Kind, Dear".
Your post, too, is very well put. Not so clouded by emotion as mine. The first part of the retard’s explanation is just as troubling as the second — “The campaign has changed McCain” and the retard lays out some subtle shifts in McCain’s rhetoric. Well, duh! EVERYBODY changes their rhetoric on the cam. trail. Maybe they don’t teach that where the retard went to school.
Love your NBF photo. Back in 1979 (I think) I got one of those limitied release prints from Civil War Times mag. A huge painting of Forrest on horseback. I’ve been told that it would sell for 10k today. Do you have any knowledge of that?
Actually, he reminds me of my sister. When I pointed out Obama’s record, she replied, “But he’s been campaigning for two years - he MIGHT have CHANGED!”
So ‘Hope & Change’ has become ‘Hope he’s changed’.
My sister and the Buckley kid - two third-rate minds.
Lightning bolts are so charming in the early afternoon.
Preemptive compliance with Fairness Doctrine mandates, I suppose.
The rank elitism of Buckley and George Will on Sarah Palin reveals something ugly about that wing of the conservative movement. They would rather take an affirmative action token with the Harvard stamp than someone who shares their values. This sort of thing is deeply disappointing. I’d rather be stabbed by enemies than “friends.”
I shall check it out.
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