Posted on 10/23/2010 10:43:37 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Perhaps you’re having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP’s crowning glory—an isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine O’Donnell announcing that she’s not a witch. (I ask you, has Hillary Clinton ever cleared this up?) Fret not over Republican peccadilloes such as the Tea Party finding the single, solitary person in Nevada who couldn’t poll ten to one against Harry Reid. Better to have a few cockeyed mutts running the dog pound than Michael Vick.
I take it back. Using the metaphor of Michael Vick for the Democratic party leadership implies they are people with a capacity for moral redemption who want to call good plays on the legislative gridiron. They aren’t. They don’t. The reason is simple. They hate our guts.
They don’t just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody’s guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class.
Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats.
Whence all this hate? Is it the usual story of love gone wrong? Do Democrats have a mad infatuation with the political system, an unhealthy obsession with an idealized body politic? Do they dream of capturing and ravishing representational democracy? Are they crazed stalkers of our constitutional republic?
No. It’s worse than that. Democrats aren’t just dateless dweebs clambering upon the Statue of Liberty carrying a wilted bouquet and trying to cop a feel. Theirs is a different kind of love story. Power, not politics, is what the Democrats love. Politics is merely a way to power’s heart. When politics is the technique of seduction, good looks are unnecessary, good morals are unneeded, and good sense is a positive liability. Thus Democrats are the perfect Lotharios. And politics comes with that reliable boost for pathetic egos, a weapon: legal monopoly on force. If persuasion fails to win the day, coercion is always an option.
Armed with the panoply of lawmaking, these moonstruck fools for power go about in a jealous rage. They fear power’s charms may be lavished elsewhere, even for a moment.
Democrats hate success. Success could supply the funds for a power elopement. Fire up the Learjet. Flight plan: Grand Cayman. Democrats hate failure too. The true American loser laughs at legal monopoly on force. He’s got his own gun.
Democrats hate productivity, lest production be outsourced to someplace their beloved power can’t go. And Democrats also hate us none-too-productive drones in our cubicles or behind the counters of our service economy jobs. Tax us as hard as they will, we modest earners don’t generate enough government revenue to dress and adorn the power that Democrats worship.
Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference. Democratic advocacy for feminism, gay marriage, children’s rights, and “reproductive choice” is simply a way to invade -power’s little realm of domestic private life and bring it under the domination of Democrats.
Democrats hate immigrants. Immigrants can’t stay illegal because illegality puts immigrants outside the legal monopoly on force. But immigrants can’t become legal either. They’d prosper and vote Republican.
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
And Democrats hate the military, of course. Soldiers set a bad example. Here are men and women who possess what, if they chose, could be complete control over power. Yet they treat power with honor and respect. Members of the armed forces fight not to seize power for themselves but to ensure that power can bestow its favors upon all Americans.
This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order. Power has been trapped, abused and exploited by Democrats. Go to the ballot box and put an end to this abusive relationship. And let’s not hear any nonsense about letting the Democrats off if they promise to get counseling.
P. J. O’Rourke, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, is the author of a new book, Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards (Atlantic Monthly Press).
hardly ..that has not been true except for Cubans and Viets and others leaving oppression
put down the kool aid PJ
I have changed my tag line to PJ’s closing comment.
BTTT
It’s a good one! :o)
Ya think? I bet if you look back in the lineage of 99% of Republican voters, you’ll find a legal immigrant. Think about it! :o)
Reinforcing the fact that the Democrats remain, even today, 200 years after their founding as the Party of Slavery, the Party of Slavery.
Emphasis for your post #8. Too true. Actually the comment is a good for a tag line
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“Reinforcing the fact that the Democrats remain, even today, 200 years after their founding as the Party of Slavery, the Party of Slavery.”
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NOTICE HOW TRUE IT IS ...
One word: “TRAITORS!”
my family votes conservative. Period. Every last one of them has linage as an immigrant.
immigration has no correlation to an increase in conservatism here, in fact quite the opposite
the early 20th century urban Democrat machines were founded on the immigrant waves that clustered in the urban Northeast and in Midwest mining and manufacturing areas which in turn along with poor rural whites elsewhere and blacks gave us FDR...without those waves FDR and what he destroyed here would have been a tough sell
and now the latino and third world waves we deal with today vote overwhelmingly Democrat
the only exceptions being those fleeing Collectivism and Totalitarians...and they are the first to see that what is happening here now is just how it started from whence they fled
unfortunately these groups are a tiny percentage of the immigrant wave that has forever changed demographics here since the early 1980s
PJ is funny, means well but like most NeoCons is hopelessly naive and somewhat PC
Immigration now is a conflict of race and culture as much as anything and I see no quick fix and I sure don't see them going conservative no matter how much we pander.
It’s good to hear from PJO, he’s been somewhat absent for years. He’s getting more articles out now and showing up on TV. A great humorist going back to NatLamps glory days in the 70s.
That's because this is a nation of settlers, not "immigrants." Settlers start out as immigrants, but they stay and help to build the nation.
The leftists are trying to obfuscate the distinction between the pioneers who came to America to build homes, states, and a country with "immigrants" who come to sponge off what the pioneers built before they leave for the next place.
He’s drawn the same conclusion as me. Whenever the Dems enact some nonsense policy and you can’t figure out why, just remember: They hate your guts. Then it all makes perfect sense. Works every time.
Real Democrat Platform: THE OBJECT OF POWER
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The [Democrat]Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
—George Orwell “1984”
Definition of CANARD 1a : a false or unfounded report or story; especially : a fabricated report b : a groundless rumor or belief
Canard is a pretty strong word to be throwing around, don't you think? Certainly nothing I've posted to you merits it's use.
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