Posted on 10/06/2007 2:02:42 AM PDT by afortiori
The 1991 comedy "Naked Gun 2 1/2" contains one of the funniest visual jokes in recent film history. A despondent Lieutenant Frank Drebin (played with bumbling genius by Leslie Nielsen) visits a depressing bar called The Blue Note to get drunk alone. The camera pans across the bar's bleak walls, where framed photographs show the burning Hindenburg, the sinking "Titanic," and finally a portrait of failed presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis.
In Jon Keller's "The Bluest State," the liberal politicians of Massachusetts, especially losers at the national level like Dukakis (1988) and John Kerry (2004), remain a running joke. Keller's contention is that Massachusetts politics is both disproportionately influential within the national Democratic Party and also uniquely dysfunctional, leading the national party into the proverbial ditch.
He refers to the Bay State's brand of liberalism as "impotent snake oil that doesn't deliver relief for the working-class people it purports to help the most." Keller accuses liberals, especially Kerry ("a prototype of the spoiled boomer, free to indulge his narcissism at every turn") and the Kennedy clan, of an elitism that antagonizes working-class folks both locally and nationally.
And while Keller feels pocketbook and safety issues go woefully unaddressed, he points to gay marriage and abortion as central items on the state's political agenda, triggering ferocious, scorched-earth battles over issues that rarely affect working-class voters directly.
Referring to himself as "a liberal who's been mugged," Keller calls for an end to "the silly, arrogant affectation that PC represents..."
"The Bluest State" argues that there is a growing alienation between the Democratic Party and working-class voters, a rift the Republicans have exploited for years. Keller hopes that Massachusetts Democrats will choose to look in the mirror and attend to the state's squeezed working-class families.
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Senators Kerry and Kennedy = Massoftwoshits
the socialist plantation.
With Mitt in reserve.
Any state which has Kennedy and Kerry as its senators must be screwed up. All I can think of when I see either of these two is a pregnant woman drowning in a car, or a Viet Nam veteran falsely accusing his fellow soldiers and sailors of atrocities.
You don't get to be Governor of the most liberal state in the union by being a real conservative.
All I can say is thank God for the GOP for the Clintons, Al Gore. They have given people a reason to vote GOP. Yeah, I know there are others, but most voters aren’t aware of who is on the Supremes.
I found that Naked Gun scene on YouTube. Too funny.
Ironically, the bar is called the Blue Note.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI_KfPf2tQs
Keller is a longtime commentator on the MA political scene and quite good at what he does. He says what anyone living in MA has known for decades.
However - I can’t completely blame the Dems for the Big Dig fiasco.
Paul Celluci(R) got re-elected with the slogan “On time and on budget.” Complete BS.
He then ran away to Canada with a sinecure appointment from W.
Worst of all, he left us with Jane Swift - one of the most laughable political trainwrecks in MA history.
Dead On
My friend’s father was a typical Boston Irish Catholic. One day during the 1980 election another friend mentioned, without being confrontational that he would not be voting for Kennedy for president because of the Chappaquiddick drowning incident. The father shot back with “THEY BLEW THAT WAY OUT OF PROPORTION...” and proceeded to lecture him about the whole matter. Sorry for the caps but the dude was really yelling.
My point is, as I once heard someone say. If the Kennedy clan could adopt Adolph Hitler, he could win a Congressional seat in Massachusetts.
It’s taken these idiots this long to figure that out? Duh!
Exploited how? The Dems have overwhelming control of the state legislature and the entire MA Congressional delegation is Dem. What do the Reps have?
“Keller calls for an end to “the silly, arrogant affectation that PC represents”
He sounds like he’s getting ready to be a Conservative.
Verses what? Balless leadership? Unbridaled bribery and corruption? America is looking for a leader! So far its getting shrills and legacy hack. Bush started out good, but soon because his old man. He declared only 1 war when 2 should have been declared, 1 on terror the other on liberals. In reality it is liberals that are the true enemy of the state. They are doing the most to destroy everything in this country that makes it great!
The Republicans are half speed Democrats. Democrats are just honest about growing the State. About increasing state power, size and wealth.
No, it would make him a Republican. A mainstream Bush/Hasteret/Dole/Nixon/Lott Republican. In that he (Keller) and the above Republicans are for larger government, more intrusive government, higher taxes forever, less liberty and rights and a smaller private sector.
If this is true it sure is not reflected at the polls.
O.K.
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