Posted on 11/03/2004 11:43:08 PM PST by Stoat
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Agree......... Left out , alone, smoldering in a mess of their own making. Just the way I like to see em !
Stay safe !
Everything you'll ever need to know about the far left, compressed into a single sentence fragment!
Drama Queen for sure.
This is one of the hallmarks of the "open minded" Left....they are perfectly friendly as long as you agree with them. This comes from having politics being their religion....it consumes every aspect of their lives, and can be compared to the notion of an Al-Queda member having a Jew as a friend...it's just not gonna happen (maybe a flawed analogy but I think you get my drift).
btt
Bingo!
It's the Pauline Kael effect.
I eat lunch with a lot of liberal co-workers. Every day for the past few months I've hear how far outside the mainstream Bush is. One of them was even an older, NE Rhino type Republican who said he couldn't bring himself to vote for Bush because of the "religious stuff."
I'd been telling these guys all along--it's not me, it's not W outside the mainstream. I told them they'd see and they did.
I made clear to them that in states like Oklahoma, Indiana, Missippi, Georgia, etc., highly intelligent people were going to be voting for Bush. Highly intelligent people with morals and values and jobs and families. Regular folks, not the CEO at Halliburton.
Yesterday they saw--in much of the country it is them (the left) out of the mainstream.
11 of 11 against gay marriage.
4 new senate seats.
Bush by more than 3.5M.
I'm a conservative that has lived much of my life in very liberal places: Brownsville, Tex; Austin, Tex; Ann Arbor, Mi; the west side of Los Angeles. And I've lived in conservative Dallas.
Every liberal city I've lived in has been a complete coccoon. Almost completely sealed off from conservative thought.
This article just confirms that it's completely intentional, too. The guy lives in liberal San Fran, and even within that city, he goes to a special coffee shop so he can be sure to avoid anyone who might disagree with him. Heaven forfend he should end up at an IHOP where GASP! there might be a Republican.
This sort of thing is killing these guys and they don't even know it. If the only contact the silent majority of Americans has with you is seeing your greasy a** marching in the streets holding up a sign with a charicature of Bush as Hitler, they ain't going to be swayed. When you shun middle America, treat them as ignorant knuckle dragging fools, don't be surprised when it's you that gets left out.
Me too!
There are definitely numerous enclaves of sanity in "blue" states, but unfortunately they are oftentimes outvoted by the Leftist blocs in the urban areas. I suffer a similar indignity, being a conservative in Seattle. I'm always being out-voted by the Left here, but I continue to fight the good fight.
At this time I'd like to sincerely apologize to the rest of the nation for Washington's support of Kerry. I'm very happy that my hopeless state wasn't a decisive factor in this election.
I'm glad that you liked it :-) It's nice to see something worthwhile from the NYT on occasion, isn't it?
"Maybe I'm on the wrong side of the culture war," Mr. Rubin said.
Well, they do tolerate my political beliefs. They both know perfectly well where I stand, since we had conversations about this before the election, and neither of them said anything nasty to me about "YOUR president" or some such. I expect things to go back to normal between us in a few days. It was just a little sad that we all had to be so painfully polite. Living here in a very blue county, I have the choice of having a VERY few Republican friends, or I can have many friends, if they are people who know my views and can still be polite to me. When they cease being polite, that's when I write 'em off. (That "slave" remark someone mentioned would certainly have done it! Yikes -- the arrogance of some people!)
I only wish we could drop these people in Cuba, to witness what totalitarianism really is. Within a year, they would be risking their lives on a raft to get back to this country, and promptly kiss the ground (and become staunch Republicans...well maybe).
Consider this. Of the six southern most counties along the Calif. Pacific coast, four voted Republican.
San Diego, Orange, Ventura, San Luis Obispo.
Lotsa beautiful miles, with good people.
Two voted democrat: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara.
I felt left out too, but I voted for Bush!
My coastal county (San Diego) went for Bush, and so did Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, and many other noncoastal counties.
Tis lonely out here...
No need to apologize.
If we didn't live in these states it would only be worse.
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