Coons took 'bearded Marxist' turn (Dem Delaware Senate Candidate)

Politico ^ | 5/3/10 10:52 PM EDT | ALEX ISENSTADT

[Cicero]

I guess when he called himself a bearded Marxist he was referring to his ideology rather than his face. (But he does have a Red tie.)

[guitarplayer1953]

was the name of the paper called a coon in kenya?

[Clintonfatigued]

Well, then, what now?

[counterpunch]

O’Donnell will win, for one simple reason:
Coons is a vote for the 0bama agenda.
O’Donnell deprives 0bama of that vote.
When it comes down to it, that’s what matters in the voting booth.

[funfan]

He looks like Opie (Ron Howard) with a little more hair

[Dionysius]

This jackanapes is 11 points ahead in the polls? From the looks and the sound of him by next week at this time he’ll be 11 points behind and gasping for air.

[fr_freak]

I have heard about many Leftists having "moments of clarity" and turning Conservative. However, I have rarely heard of people going the other way. If you are already conservative, its almost intellectually inconceivable to start to think that Marxism can actually work.

In my experience, the ones who go from being "conservative" to leftist are usually ones who never put any thought into their political beliefs. They were "conservative" only because mommy and daddy were. Then, as soon as they get into a college where all of the professors are Marxists idiots, and all of the cute college girls are Marxist idiots, they start "questioning assumptions", which is the same as saying that they get brainwashed. It is not an intellectual transformation. It is simply a need to be one of the herd.

People who go from leftist to conservative, however, usually do it for intellectual reasons, having had some sort of epiphany, and usually later in life, once life has had a little bit of time to administer the proper a$$-kicking.

[gidget7]

Flaming progressive who went to Amherst College. That was all I needed to know!

Interesting, all the talk about Kenya, I must say!

[Will88]

I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue.”

That sentence makes zero sense. So, his experiences in Kenya, where he observed severe poverty and the attitude of the wealthy, those experiences led him to believe there were not "boundless opportunities" in the US, in comparison to Kenya?

What any rational person observed in Kenya would have convinced them that opportunities in the US were boundless in comparison. Sounds like just another self-loathing, guilt-ridden white leftist of the sort that has done so much damage to US already.

[Will88]

I’ve read and Christine O’Donnell said today in an interview, that several weeks ago she led Coons in the polls, and only fell behind him after the Republicans ran their smear campaign against her, the smears Karl Rove kept repeating last night.

[eddie willers]

People who go from leftist to conservative, however, usually do it for intellectual reasons, having had some sort of epiphany, and usually later in life, once life has had a little bit of time to administer the proper a$$-kicking.

Or, as the saying goes...."being mugged".

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Seven years before he went to Kenya, I had worked for a half-year in Commie China. I saw up close and personal the oppression, tyranny, thought control and destruction of human spirit under Communism. I came back changed, too — even more strongly conservative and a firm believer in America and her potential.

He claims he went as a conservative and returned as a marxist. Others discovered the destruction of marxism and came back champions of liberty.

He’s a despciable putz.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...once life has had a little bit of time to administer the proper a$$-kicking.

...such as seeing the bottom line on your 1040 over a span of 10 or 12 years.

[Truth is a Weapon]

You would think that this article and Reid calling Coons his peg would be enough to make him unelectable even in Delaware.

[BlackElk]

The 60's New Left used the slogan: Dare to Struggle! Dare to Win! We on the Right knew that they were suggesting to college nerds like Coons: Dare to Snuggle! Dare to Sin!

Poor Coons only dreamed (in vain) about snuggling and did not win. Next chapter: November 2, 2010: A humiliated Coons is defeated by O'Donnell and stops appearing in daylight.

[BlackElk]

In the United States a Kenyan can be elected and sworn in as POTUS and no one who stays in Kenya can do that!

[Truthsearcher]

He wasn’t really a conservative. He simply regurgitated the conservatism of his environment growing up, and then started to regurgitate the leftism of his new environment on campus.

[fortheDeclaration]

Another Democrat who hates America.

[rbg81]

It is not an intellectual transformation. It is simply a need to be one of the herd.

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Thanks—excellent insight.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Check the date of the article.