Posted on 10/22/2010 5:37:47 AM PDT by libstripper
Two central facts give shape to the historic 2010 election. The first is not understood by Republicans, and the second not admitted by Democrats.
The first: the tea party is not a "threat" to the Republican Party, the tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn't remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.
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Just WOW!
The fact that a columnist—who gets paid to have coherent opinions—can swing so wildly from Reaganism to Obama-worship and now to supporting the Tea Party points out that her opinion isn’t worth a damn to begin with. Give her a year or two and she’ll be justifying the Big 0’s re-election.
If the pubbies win big this cycle and then revert to form, they will be finished as a political party next cycle.
It’s really strange. That’s why I set her name as one of the key words. With these wild swings, she really does seem to have some serious psychological issues.
Poor Peggy has sensed the shift in the winds and is trying to crawl back up on the bandwagon she jumped off in 2008.
America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution, by Angelo M. Codevilla
Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind.
FTA “It got the party out from under George W. Bush.”
I think the Tea Party citizens got the party out from McCain, and the other RINOs.
We need to oust the Rinosaur leadership in January.
A remarkably good read. I encourage all to read the entire column.
I especially liked what she said about people who get to taste power and privilege in DC ... who came to DC with ideals, but , “... in many cases stayed on, as they say, not to do good but to do well.”
Not to do good, but to do well. Wow.
Send them ALL home.
Save your breath Miss Peggy. You’re not going to be forgiven and welcomed back.
You’re stuck with your MSNBC pals.
Don’t take her out of the tumbrel cart yet....she can’t be trusted.
Oh, I have NO love for Peggy. She’s about as worthless as they come.
The truths are that 95% of folks who write ideas for a living never or almost never come up with a new or original (in a few generations) idea, they live on the crop of others.
And even among those who are blessed by Providence to come up with new ideas, 99% of the ideas they write are grain taken from another’s field.
I include myself in the later, but not the former.
In other words all the great commentators and talkers we all read and listen to — their own ideas come from other sources, and a major source is right here: Free Republic.
The fact that Free Republic is among one of the greatest farms of ideas in human history is never remarked on of course! It it were to be, well, we’d lose. We’d lose that status. So ignore what I just said. Keep it an unspoken secret.
Good column, but you can’t trust Peggy anymore.
She’s not stable.
You are 100% correct. Though it’s nice to see some items go viral directly from FR. Sore Loserman and Rather’s fake National Guard docs come to mind.
Couldn't have said it better, myself.
But, I might add, that 800 lb. gorilla in the room, Sarah Palin, will be watching and starting her next hunting list of RINO'S & 'RATS for 2012 to stock her freezer.
Yes, she is trying to crawl back on the bandwagon. I don’t buy it — blowing in the wind.
“The fact that a columnist—who gets paid to have coherent opinions—can swing so wildly from Reaganism to Obama-worship and now to supporting the Tea Party points out that her opinion isn’t worth a damn to begin with. Give her a year or two and she’ll be justifying the Big 0’s re-election.”
So correct. What would she be, more of a spin-meister? It’s almost like she floats around on the spectrum and is perfectly at home wherever her thoughts land on any certain day. Or maybe she just regurgitates conversations she has had with someone who has an opinion.
Once upon a time, a nation of farmers and pioneers existed. These hearty people used guns to kill meat and mules to till the soil. They lived among a few people they knew well, where character mattered in all dealings with each other. There were a few cities, mostly engaged in commerce around a port where agricultural goods where shipped out and industrial products brought in and distributed out to the land. Though it was a hard life, people were free and cherished their independence. They didn’t need a lot of laws beyond the Ten Commandments. Occasionally the city people would try to get more of the wealth by imposing tariffs and duties on products or taxing such products as whiskey but generally the country got along OK. As more and more people around the world saw the great opportunities in this land they took ships to the land’s ports. Some of them took wagons or walked to the frontier but many stayed in the cities. As time went on more and more people lived in the cities where amenities such as street lights, and for that matter streets were available. There were entertainment and sports teams and if they had problems, charities and government programs grew up to help them out. The people became dependant on each other for jobs and because they lived so close together had to write up all kinds of rules like trash goes out on Tuesday only so rats didn’t have a week to eat it. But people pushed together in close quarters where always bumping up against each other so they needed more police to intervene when tempers flared. The people in the hinterlands had different problems because of their distance from services so were more independent than the city folks. Then the tractor came to the farms and it took less labor to produce crops and the pull of all that culture and excitement in the city caused many people to leave the farms and move to the city where they found jobs in new factories. The factories were run by ‘scientific management” with lots of rules like when you could eat lunch or how often you could go to the bathroom but people went along with it because it was secure and you could have fun later at the theater or ball game or bar.
Eventually people in the city had very different ideas about how life should be organized than their kin in the vast rural areas where they didn’t really need much organization other than what was in the Farmer’s Almanac. Since there were more city people they voted for laws that made sense to them regardless of how the laws affected the people out in the lands. For example, since city people didn’t hunt and had to live next to some guy from the factory they didn’t like, they thought it was safer if people didn’t have guns and just called the police. Of course if the police are 50 miles away and the problem is a bunch of marauding wild men you might want to be able to protect yourself, not to mention hunting for food.
Overtime the laws passed by the city made the rural people madder and madder and they turned redder and redder. But the city folks just folded their arms and held their breath until they got their laws passed, which made them bluer and bluer. And that children is where we are today.
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