Posted on 03/21/2006 7:25:41 AM PST by mathprof
This is a blog for the majority of Americans.
Since the election of 1992, the extreme political left has fought a losing battle. Their views on the economy, marriage, abortion, guns, the death penalty, health care, welfare, taxes, and a dozen other major domestic policy issues have been exposed as unpopular, unmarketable and unquestioned losers at the ballot box.
Democrats who have won major elections since 1992 have, with very few exceptions, been the ones who distanced themselves from the shrieking denizens of their increasingly extreme base, soft-pedaled their positions on divisive issues and adopted the rhetoric and positions of the right -- pro-free market, pro-business, pro-faith, tough on crime and strongly in favor of family values.
Yet even in a climate where Republicans hold command of every branch of government, and advocate views shared by a majority of voters, the mainstream media continues to treat red state Americans as pachyderms in the mist - an alien and off-kilter group of suburbanite churchgoers about which little is known, and whose natural habitat is a discomforting place for even the most hardened reporter from the New York Times.
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Red America's citizens are the political majority. They're here to stay. It's time to start paying attention to what they believe and why.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
Is this their token nod to all us ignant hair-on-fire redstater types?
it bears the stench of black-bag PsyOps to me......
Yet the Republican party continues to creep into the realm of these unpopular, unmarketable, and losing idealogies, bolstered by the unmitigated arrogance of those who ask "Where else are conservative voters going to go?"
If anything ever causes a viable third party to emerge, that arrogance will lead us there.
Wow! Quite a development, he says suspiciously . . .
But seriously, the point about many liberals on the coasts thinking the rest of us are just gun-loving bigot hick religious freaks, etc. is spot on.
When someone says that to me, though, I don't get angry or argue. I just say "well, if you think we're such knuckle-draggers then I'm sure you'd never want our votes, right?" That usually shuts them up.
it is a fairly well written piece and I support much of what Ben Domenech has to say and admire his work at redstate and his editing, I do not now, nor have I ever trusted the Washington Post.
As long as I continue to see the crap/garbage/filth/bias on the front page of this fish wrapper, I have one and only one thing to say... Dont believe a word you read it it!!!!
This is TOO funny. Recognizing that it is a tad out of the mainstream, Pravda on the Potomac launches a blog for normal people ....
However, see the front page of the Post when it emails us for its must see articles. Almost without fail, they have articles which deride the GOP majority, just how many seats they will lose, the anti-war movement growing. One blog does not mean a sea-change in The Post. Now if I saw this in the NY Times, I would be thanking the Lord for small blessings.
Understood!
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