Posted on 11/12/2009 9:29:04 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Uh...
He claims to understand the tea-partiers, yet he calls them tea-baggers. He’s never met a tea-partier.
Rare to read an article where the author is so right and so wrong at the same time.
My sense is that the writer is on the journey many of us have made, from liberalism to conservatism.
They’re still in the early stages though - lots of issues to work through.
Intelectually vacuous.
Protestors have consistantly espoused disdain for removal of choice in healthcare, frustration with the government money spigot to those who ran businesses into the ground (with no investigation into how that happened, as was properly done with Enron) etc. Not some vague undirected anger.
I would ignore this guy too, were I a liberal. He’s as dumb as a box of rocks.
confirms what we all thought, that they were soiling their underwear over Sarah until McCain blew it. And that they still fear her.
Ya nailed it!
also he does not address the fact that the majority of white working people are socially conservative, even if they may stray off the reservation on economics at times.
A party that keeps trying to stuff gay marriage and libertine abortion policies down their throats has no hope of winning them over, unions or not.
Ironically, the Ivy League elites were conservative back when the Bible Belt was socialist (and voting for William Jennings Bryan).
I cannot understand the labor vote.
How can hard working people continue to vote to increase taxes and entitlements?
There is something visceral there that my logic cannot comprehend.
By framing elites as talking down to the poor and working class, ...
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The Marxist elites do NOT need to be “framed” as talking down to Americans. They DO talk down to Americans.
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This article demonstrates that political parties are in fact the declared religions of the people in this country.
This guy can not give up being a Rat even though he agrees in principle with most of the conservative platform... I know so many like this guy and it is so frustrating to get them to make the leap to autonomous thinking.
It is as if their parents sat them down at the kitchen table long ago and told them any number of calumnies about the GOP and conservatism, and, like Sunday school lessons to a true believer, the effects are permanent.
I hope this former Obama campaign worker can develop a few more steradians of insight and make the leap to conservatism.
But his comment about feeling inferior to Ivy Leaguers kind of seals his fate.
He thinks much more clearly and independently than most Ivy Leaguers I know... he just doesn't believe he does.
The jail cell is open, dude, all you have to do is man up and walk out to conservatism, the Constitution, and Freedom.
You must be willing to do an about face to liberal socialism, which will take some courage. Do it.
True! What this guy may or may not understand is that Sarah Palin also understands what this guy is saying about elitist liberal snobs and their unrelenting insults towards most of their neighbors.
Palin knows she can win an election without 30 percent of the vote. She’s also smart enough to know how to tweak the elites, and how to work around them.
I’m glad the guy is honest enough to state boldly that the union actions are designed to create Democrat voters. I don’t see that kind of honesty often.
What liberals have to do is unite with the teabaggers and engage in a class war against Wall Street.
He is stuck on stupid and old union sloganeering.
The reality is that the democrats are holly own by Wall Street and everyone paying the slightest bit of attention knows it.
If Wall Street exploited the “working class” over the years it was a small thing compared the working class having to bail out their oppressors with the help of the democrats through massive deficits and higher taxation. The democrats have lost the mantle of being for the working class and it won’t be coming back any time soon.
Nationalized health care, cap and tax and comprehensive immigration reform are all elitist notions that work against the working class.
That dog won’t hunt.
Nailed it. I think he was really on to something when he talked about those of us who have lived in the real world versus those who pontificate to us from their elitist positions about how stupid we are and racist we are and blah blah. I think he really captures the appeal of Palin, that she went to a land grant university (like alot of us) that she has actually worked at a real job (like most of us) and raised her own family (like most of us). Her political philosophy was formed from these experiences that most of us out in flyover country share rather than at some think tank or in the offices of a Democratic Pol or opterative. I know that is why both my wife and I are so attracted to her. We know people like her and her husband and we ARE people like her and her husband. We both came from small town Nebraska families that instilled us with a work ethic and conservative values that have aided us (through alot of hard work and the application of the God given talents that we were blessed with) to attain a little slice of the American dream. That is where I think the guy is right on.
I think where he misses the boat is the whole union thing. I don’t think that liberals can grasp that there is a massive segment of the population that don’t wanna be herded into any group based on anything but shared beliefs. Rugged individualism does not compute with them. I refuse to bind myself to any group of folks whose sole reason for coming together is that we all share some disadvantage that we think is “keeping us down” or disadvantaging us in some way. It is against every fiber of my being (as well as most folks on this board I would reckon) to do that. That is what this guy (and most liberals) do not get.
I am for liberty, a small Constitutional government that stays out of my pocket and my life and respects the God given rights enumerated in said Constitution. Anyone or any group that works in the other direction is my opponent and, I fear, soon to be my blood enemy. Leave me alone, let me live my life in a self responsible manner and I will do the same for you. Otherwise, all bets are off.
Sorry about the rant, BRC
The only political principal upon which this guy agrees with conservatives is distaste for Ivy League liberals. He’s on no journey to conservatism.
Well, its a start.
This is such a BS article. My brother-in-law was a truck driver, and never finished high school. I never had trouble communicating with him, and he always had reasonable and well thought out political opinions.
The idea that the ‘rat elite is calm, cool and collected is ludicrous. They are shrill, frothing and utterly unreasonable.
People are angry because they are getting screwed ! Not because of those nasty opportunistic Republican rabble-rousers.
Let this deluded person proceed on with this drivel. Sane people won’t believe it, and that includes the majority of working class people. Only those fed full of ‘rat poison from CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/PMSNBC will swallow this swill.
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