From what I’ve observed, too many (Republicans) come to town to try to get on the cocktail party circuit because they want to “be liked” by the media and have them say nice things about them. That’s the last place they need to be, and the last group they should be socializing with. The media is NOT our friends, especially as long as they are dominated by the extreme left fringe. The media knows how to play some of our people, separate the weak-willed ones from the herd, and turn them against our people and the base. Those people are dangerous. You’re right, too, about the arrogance of the entrenched, and that cuts across party lines (but especially those on the left or in the process of moving further in that direction).
I tell this short story from time to time, I think probably some of the smartest folks in DC ain’t in government, they drive cabs. One cabbie I spoke to back in the ‘90s, a self-identified Conservative Republican and Black, was discussing Colin Powell with me (this was the week he was deciding whether to enter the ‘96 race, when polling indicated he could probably beat a weak Clinton). This guy admonished me that Powell was a total phony and absolutely no good whatsoever. The cabbie ultimately proved 100% right, with it coming to full fruition in the last election with his full-blown apostasy. There was a prime example of a Republican corrupted by the cocktail party circuit, kissing up to his new liberal media friends. He surely made his racist and sexist bones with his backstabbing weaselry.
Love those cabbies! My husband went to Army War College in ‘95 and the buzz there wasn’t complementary of Powell.
Been great to and fro-ing with you, look forward to more in future, all the best in MN - got to go function now!!!! Cheers, gin of matginzac