Thanks. It’s funny how it evolved as I wrote.
I started out intending to simply point out how this race has turned into “The Machine vs. The People”.
But then I thought about the geographic angle and how the Redneck Nation label has spread over the last two years. From the South, to Pennsyvania, then Ohio, then W. Va, then...well, tea parties and town halls revealed it to be a nationwide phenomenon! Only New England was largely singled out as more enlightened. Until now.
Now the birthplace of our democracy will feel the wrath. It would be easy to say “told ya so”. But I’d rather embrace them and, as I asked above, have them reassess all they’ve been told about their fellow flyover-countrymen. Perhaps they’ll begin to see MSNBC for what it is...from there, it won’t take long for them to see it in the Boston Globe and the NY Times and all the other Dem mouth organs. I pray it lasts.
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I think it will last because Obama and Nancy&Co. will still be around ALL year to do and say stupid, elitist things.
I live in NE and there was a Tea Party meeting in a little, tiny town that has 2 Prep schools and a Labor Union training school, artists studios, B&B’s, horse farms etc.
350 people-350!-came to the meeting. (I couldn’t attend-my dog is dying). AND it was held AT a town elementary school.
To me, that speaks volumes.
But you’re right; when the “clinging to religion” comment was made,I’m sure a lot of people here thought he was right. After all, we all know how those toothless rednecks are.
Never did they think, a year later, they’d be standing next to one, nodding in agreement and then sharing a cup of coffee while having a discussion about the Constitution; I mean, who knew that ‘Rednecks’ could even read!
I see this TPX movement as Americans turning off their TVs and getting to know their neighbor better and best of all, taking back their country from the John Kerrys and Michelle Obamas of the world.