Posted on 12/05/2008 6:44:38 AM PST by steve-b
In the several days since I first used the term in a column describing the Republican Party's "religious" problem, oogedy-boogedy seems to have entered the bloxicon. (New word invented right here, meaning: the blogosphere's lexicon.) Google produces more than 26,000 references....
...While dismissing assertions -- mine and others' -- that the Republican Party has a religion problem, Ponnuru acknowledges that social conservatives "could present themselves more attractively," and "pick their spokesmen more wisely."
That's a start, but let's take it another step. How about social conservatives make their arguments without bringing God into it? By all means, let faith inform one's values, but let reason inform one's public arguments.
That was and remains my point....
The broad perception among centrists, moderates, conservative Democrats, renegade Republicans, etc., is that the GOP is the party of white Christians to the exclusion of others, some of whom might also be social conservatives....
The glue that binds the GOP's religious right -- social issues, especially abortion -- is not insignificant and doesn't deserve to be dismissed. But nor should those issues be tied to scripture. Some religious conservatives understand this, but the memo apparently isn't reaching all the pews.
They might take a cue from Nat Hentoff, a self-described Jewish-atheist, who has written as eloquently as anyone about the "indivisibility of life" and the slippery slope down which abortion leads.
He uses logic and reason to argue that being pro-life, rather than resolving the religious question of ensoulment, is really a necessary barrier against selective killing, such as when someone else decides it's your time to die.
Hentoff's arguments, and others on related issues, ultimately may fail. But at least they will fail for reasons other than that oogedy-boogedy got in the way.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
You forgot to put a “Barf Alert” in the title. Parker is a closet lib and religous bigot.
So, in other words, Kathleen is upset, just like the rest of us, over the fact that nobody in the GOP can articulate conservatism in a clear and concise manner. It would be nice if she just would have said that in the first place instead of insulting people and becoming a useful idiot for the left.
Ms.Parker, you did NOT “invent” the term oogedy-boogedy.
I first heard it as a kid in a Bugs Bunny cartoon (probably originally made in the early 1940s).
You give yourself too much credit.
So that's where I heard it! I have always been wondering where and when that phrase entered my vocabulary. Me and my friends have been using that phrase for years. The writer of the article is a moron for claiming authorship.
Parker hasn't learned the first rule of holes, apparently, and just keeps digging.
I actually became pro-life because of Hentoff's writings on abortion. However, I do not see that as any kind of morally or intellectually superior approach to a religious-based path - I'm just glad that people of differing viewpoints can come to a pro-life conclusion. Parker shows her liberal disdain for religion, and specifically of Christianity, by assuming such.
Katie “The Kapo” Parker. Gosh, woman! Someone give her a kleenex, so she can get that stuff off her nose. That’s disgusting!
; )
I think she was referring to the word “bloxicon”.
Anything you now write is, by default, crap. I will not read a word you write regardless of content because you are an insufferable, elitist fraud. If you were to tell me that grass is green, I would look to make sure.
Please go sit with Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, etc. and relive the glory days when you were somewhat relevant to right-thinking readers.
Worst regards,
Dr. Thorne
Kathleen Parker like Brooks & Frum are showing themselves to be Christophobic. Parker uses the term “progressive” to describe certain values younger people are adopting - the proper word is decadent. However given Parker’s social circle I’m not surprised.
What kind of narcissist Googles her own made-up terms to see how many people are talking about it? Kathleen Parker is just pathetic.
Let me get religious:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,
Parker is following the self-absorbed path to fame. See Bill O’Reilly, Maureen Dowd, etc.
Ya gotta admit Brooks and Frum can sing a good country tune.
Actually, “oogedy-boogedy” would more accurately describe those on the left who act as if mobs of Evangelical Christians were all planning to come to their houses and forcibly baptize them.
Religious people are not going away, and the Republican Party cannot win elections without us. We answer to a higher calling than mere politics and won’t water down our principles. I’d say the Religious Right is the largest constituency within the Republican Party and the binding that holds it together. Non-religious Republicans had better come to terms with that.
After the slime they threw at Sarah Palin and Christians this campaign season, I will never read another column by any of the following:
Kathleen Parker
Peggy Noonan
David Frum
No click, no money for them.
I really feel sorry for the losertarians. They REALLY despise we of the religious right. Yet they have no other natural brethren in conservatism.
I don’t care WHAT you call yourself of how you see yourself ... but all those who see that the Left has just jumped off the cliff of fascism AND have control of the nation .... better hang together ... or we’ll all soon hang, together.
Parker, Noonan and Frum, oh my!
- JP
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