Well, this guy showed up and tried to formulate what at least has the appearance of an honest assessment of the actual phenomenon in front of him, which is more than you can say for most of the media.
I don’t know about turning the tide, but it leads logically to the next step, to a November Tsunami.
Remember, November is Coming.
You can’t turn back a tide but it will help float a lot of boats and the tide will turn back eventually.
I don’t trust anything Ross Douchebag writes after the hatchet job he did to Sarah Palin
Poor man, he was reduced to damning Beck for being too evil and crafty to wave the bloody shirt of political partisanship at the event and giving his critics something to sink their teeth into.
Ross Asshat, in typical NYT fashion, has no idea what they are experiencing and how deep the hatred of Washington is. Becks rally confused the cocktail circuit crowd because it was steeped in pro-American ideals of which most of the country follows.
What I find sad is that so many, including Douthat, seem to be unable to comprehend what a truly inspiring event was held yesterday.
It was honorable, truthful, spiritual, patriotic...and full of the “hope” that so many Americans strive to achieve.
Sad that they can’t see it for what it was.
So...I now say...CHANGE IT BACK!
I’m starting to think we might be better off if we deliberately lose this election. Or at least deliberately fail to show up to vote for any lackluster Federal republican.
What good is victory if republicans come in with the same big government “solutions”. Even to many republicans the very idea that we might actually roll back government into something we can least afford to support is or rather has been unthinkable.
Just as unthinkable giving government the appropriate blame for the existing economic and health-care mess. BOTH of which are directly a result of our own Governments interference in the market. Past polices both republican and democrat created this mess. Believe to or not there have been many “progressive” republicans who have created a lot of government expansion with very destructive consequence.
We cannot continue to defend or ignore theses acts, and we would be better off losing if we tried.
If they want to think people like Sharron Angle are extremest for wanting to get rid of social(socialist) security and the Federal department of education. Then I say let them stand upon their own. We would be better off letting the democrats drive the United States into total dysfunction and collapse then to fight them to a standstill or even a moderation.
I was there Saturday there were vendors selling white T-shirts
with the a graphic similar to the official Restoring honor shirt but on the back they had How is that Hope and change working for you. They did not do to good selling T shirts. If they left the words off the back they probably would have sold a ton of T-shirts The message on the back did not fit. The people who showed up where your parents and grandparent people who do not normally protest and their were some black people not many but some. The vendors were mainly black
Though it is not taught in school any more the founders of this country were very religious. If we can not get that religious fervor back to the people the country will fail T-Party or not. That is what this rally was about to start a spiritual awakening. That happens people again will see the differences of right and wrong. That is very dangerous for both political parties.
Will the rally work I think it will the people at the rally were not mindless droids following some master. They all had many different reasons for being there. The Left know this and so does the Republican party and they are scared
I love the “tens of thousands” figure. This doofus, like other Leftists, simply cannot admit that the crowd pushed one million. LOL!
Douthat is an egotist who patronizes right & left equally, but seems to prefer when he can condescend to the right. Now that Dave Brooks is back to concentrating on his spurious occult interests, the New York Times Co. has a reliable house-conservative once more. This is one of the anthropologist-style that are typically done better by David Weigel or James Fallows.
Thanks, Ross, for informing me what *YOU* had thought about Beck’s “star” and how *YOU* now think that *YOU* underestimated him. Such noble prose