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To: Darren McCarty

As a minority who didn’t vote for BO, let me add some points:

1. As Darren McCarty said when he channeled Rush and David Horowitz, talk about how big cities have been run by liberal Democrats for years and how they’ve been promising national healthcare and other programs for decades. And the cities are in terrible shape and the promises are unmet.
2. Talk about Steeele’s point on how liberalism is designed to make people FEEL good about themselves, despite the fact that liberalism has not produced any RESULTS for the people it is targeted to help.
3. Talk about the “prosperous pauper” idea, namely, big gov’t programs turning downtrodden people into wards of the state reliant on the whims of politicians rather than indepedent citizens that can take care of themselves and live freely.
4. Stress the idea with the data that poverty is a temporary station in life (R. Rector for Heritage, T. Sowell, etc.)for the vast majority of people, and that wholesale societal changes are not needed to help the small % of those trapped into cycles of poverty.
5. Stress the importance of school choice that the left is so opposed to and talk about school credit programs designed to give people tax breaks if they send their kids to private school (Rush’s sub Jason Lewis - I like his idea better than vouchers).
6. Talk about how even President Obama admits that his kids (growing up rich) don’t deserve the same help that he and his wife received growing up (less rich). This opens the door to talking about truly helping the poor of all colors and genders instead of giving a leg up to middle and upper class white women and ethnic minorities.
7. Talk about the data (Stanford prof? and T. Sowell) that shows affrimative action puts undergrad and law school students into schools where they are mismatched, leading to higher dropout rates, lower grades, failed bar exams, etc. Again...this point stresses results over feeling good about giving people opportunities that don’t materialize into anything tangible.
8. Talk about the days before busing when black schools with black teachers were serving their students and getting real results (T. Sowell’s work, Z. Neale Hurston’s concern about Brown vs. Board).

That’s just a few off the top of my head...


233 posted on 03/16/2009 7:57:49 PM PDT by publius_in_abq
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To: publius_in_abq
. As Darren McCarty said when he channeled Rush and David Horowitz, talk about how big cities have been run by liberal Democrats for years and how they’ve been promising national healthcare and other programs for decades. And the cities are in terrible shape and the promises are unmet.

Irony in that is that I don't even listen to Rush's show and haven't heard Horowitz in about seven years.

I just happen to be 30 miles from Detroit and 5-10 miles from Ypsilanti and seen much of this firsthand.

237 posted on 03/16/2009 9:49:55 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Obama = Jimmy Carter II)
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