Posted on 06/26/2007 5:17:28 PM PDT by Mamzelle
Over the past months of this nightmare of immigration scofflawry, listening to the rhetoric from the aristocratic Republican elites--I’ve been carried back to the Magnolia Melodramas I enjoyed reading as a teenager. Gwen Bristow’s “Plantation Trilogy”; Frank Yerby’s “The Foxes of Harrow” and the magnificent mother of them all--Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The Wind.”
George Bush once said, “I’m not a southerner, I’m a southwesterner.” He was trying to distance himself from the south and the taint of racism, a “compassionate” insult to every southerner who voted for him. But he has every resemblence to the linen-suited julep-drinking Massa of the Old South.
And the dynamic of the Elites verses Middle-class Conservatives is exactly like the plantation owner and his nearest inelegant neighbors...White Trash. Scots-Irish subsistence farmers couldn’t afford to the leisured fineries of the Planter Class because they were trying to eke out an existence in competition with the institution of slavery.
Remember the characters of the Slatterys and the Macintoshes, Gerald and Scarlett O’Hara’s WT neighbors? Not only did the O’Haras hold them in contempt for being so hardscrabble, tacky and rough-textured, but the slaves themselves of the plantations held themselves in higher esteem than “po’ whites.”
And the Massa with the Big Heart dearly loved his servants, loved condescending to them--What treasures! Just like members of the family! Not that he set them free, or ate at the same table. There are limits to paternalism and noblesse oblige. But Massa and Missus were unfailingly thankful that Mammy and Pork picked up Scotty’s poop off the Big House lawn.
The irony--it’s the Southern middle class that makes up a lot of the soldiers who trusted him enough to serve in Iraq.
George Bush thinks he can afford to openly display the contempt he has always felt for Joe Redneck...er...Sixpack. His chief overseer, Tony Snow, let us in on the secret in the wee hours after election day. He can now concentrate on indulging his oozing childhood sentimentality by handing his house servants a deed to America.
I’m reminded of another scene from Gone With The Wind--Scarlett was being lectured by an elderly matriarch about Trash. “And when you’re done with them--kick them away and do it thoroughly, because Trash clinging to your coattails can ruin you.”
I have entered into many discussions about illegal immigration with a comment--housework and yardwork are political. This is a class issue between overlord elites who can’t conceive of a life spent actually cleaning up after themselves. They break the laws, then have to justify the transgression by accusing the law of being bad. That’s why they become insulting and defensive when requested to obey the law.
I’m done with Bush. I don’t trust him--or any member of his Indolent family.
You said: I believe Ann Coulter has referred to Bush as a “nincompoop.” That about sums up my feelings also.
I won’t go so far as to describe our President as a nincompoop, but Ms. Coulter has the right to her opinion and the right to express it.
I am disappointment with the President. Usually we see growth in our Presidents, as they mature and adjust to the office. But our sitting President hasn’t shown any improvement in his communications skills, in his comfort level, in his effectiveness. For a while, I thought he was perhaps becoming more likable, but as of late, his likability factor is decreasing. My opinion.
I don’t say these words lightly; I really, really liked this President. But I cannot overlook his obvious allegiance to Mexico over the welfare of the United States.
Poor, white trash...Bush is two of the three.
elites want to make sure the two parties stay in power.
They need each other.
one of us
one of us
one of us
one of us
one of us
I am a native Texan and Texas IS a part of the “South”.
It was Grandma Fontaine--I think. The occasion was Gerald's funeral at Tara, after Scarlett was causing scandal in Reconstruction Atlanta by buying stores and sawmills and stealing SueEllen's beau...
Mitchell had quite the eye and an acid pen, which lampooned the "charming cavaliers" much more than sympathized with them. I think she did a much better job than Wharton, but doesn't get the recognition because the book is so un-PC.
It wasn’t in the movie, it was in the book, and it was Grandma Fontaine talking to Scarlett, responding to the gossip about Scarlett doing business with the Carpetbaggers and Scalawags.
I haven't been back in years. But the Texas I left behind was most certainly, positively, Southern.
Oh, you mean the movie! It’s a shame they left that scene out of the movie. They ought to do a remake, maybe in series. They also left out two of Scarlett’s children.
That’s right, Bush has active contempt for you, me and every other Conservative. He doesn’t WANT our help or support. He feels that he doesn’t need us since he can’t get elected again.
I think they do. But if not, they should:
"I rely on Texas troops in all tight places, and fear I have to call on them too often. They have fought grandly, nobly..." --Gen. Robert E. Lee
I second your rant !
He played the religious right and conservatives like a violin,when the last of the “die hards” realize this his approval will be 2%
He does not need us anymore and apparently neither does the republican party
“How is it that this immigration issue is now his and only his issue?”
Because he’s the one pushing it so damned hard. It would neve rhave gotten this far if he wasn’t obsessed with swamping us with mexicans.
Very nice rant. I agree totally.
Ok, I marginally dislike the Senators you mentioned more than Mr. Bush. I hope that makes it better.
Never don't mind Connecticut, are any of these politicians whose parents spent their lifetimes in D.C., from D.C.?
When this legislation AKA the Republican Party Destruction Act of 2007 passes, the democrats will become the permanent majority party and we’ll have a one-party state with an ever-expanding federal government which will accept NO limits on its power whatsoever.
The last laugh will be on the white politicians who thought they could get mexican votes with this blatant pander-fest. Their mexican buddies will soon have no use for them and will vote mexicans into their seats - and these white trash fools will be all be out of a job.
Mexicans vote mexican, blacks vote black - race trumps everything for minorities.
truth is that most Texans do not consider themselves Southern or Southwestern but Texan.
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