[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I followed the Bush-bash last night...and the WBBH-Reno fan club....so many long faces attempting to find a ray of hope amidst that bunch. The Democrats seem on a one-way trip into the sewer, all negativity and hate...when Americans need mature leadership and real can-do spirit from their fellow Americans.

Pessimism never won any battles.--Dwight Eisenhower
60 posted on 8/28/02 10:19 PM Eastern by Ragtime Cowgirl

FL Democratic Gubernatorial Sedate Debate

RG, Somehow this post piqued my curiosity, and I checked out your homepage. I like the cut of your jib! The Coyboy Bush" and Ashcroft pieces are inspiring.

I've been studying the question of the "one-way trip" the Democrats have been making; you made me wonder if it might not be cast in psychological terms as depression. Conservatives

see beyond the years
thine alabaster cities gleam
undimmed by human tears.

OTOH Journalists, by focusing on the moment, see mostly negative things with which to surprise and interest (entertain) the public. I see "Liberal" politicians as simply the political expression of the short-term, paranoid perspective of journalism. It's demagogery based on following and exacerbating the prevailing ideological wind of journalism.

Doesn't that tie in with the Eisenhower quote? Journalists (liberals in general) focus so closely on the dire consequences of the battle that they cannot see victory at its end. In that respect WWII was anomalous because FDR, precisely like x42, was sympatico with the ethos of journalism. FDR was after all allied with Joseph Stalin.