Posted on 02/12/2008 11:11:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Disemboweling is evidently the theme du jour. As the political wars rage in this amazingly acrimonious primary season, the skin has been ripped off the establishment in both parties, and their guts have been exposed. We're seeing the pulsing inner workings of partisan ideology as never before.
On the Republican side, conservatives marshaled by leading radio hosts have hotly rebelled against the onrushing nomination of Sen. John McCain, who has been vilified for years for his slippery positions and his schmoozing with liberals. On the Democratic side, rank-and-file party members have been shocked to discover that there is a ruling elite of 800 superdelegates, who have the power to crown the presidential nominee and who can be easily swayed or corrupted by lobbying.
The old-guard feminist establishment has also rushed out of cold storage to embrace Hillary Clinton via tremulous manifestoes of gal power that have startlingly exposed the sentimental slackness of thought that made Gloria Steinem and company wear out their welcome in the first place. Hillary's gonads must be sending out sci-fi rays that paralyze the paleo-feminist mind -- because her career, attached to her husband's flapping coattails, has sure been heavy on striking pious attitudes but ultra-light on concrete achievements.
The angst and fury boiling on talk radio, from both hosts and callers, have been truly operatic in drama and intensity. It's been a riveting spectator sport. But this eruption would come as no surprise to longtime listeners. What the mainstream press has failed to realize is that nationally syndicated hosts, such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, have always drawn a very firm distinction between their views and those of the party establishment in Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
They have fiercely denounced the party when it has strayed from conservative principles. McCain, who has co-sponsored liberal legislation and courted and flattered Beltway journalists, has been a longtime target.
Great line.
Those "leading radio hosts" have followed, not marshaled, the conservatives.
Well,...I guess that is the view from the left side....
This is a Salon article. We’re nothing but mind-numbed robots that follow talk radio hosts to our doom as far as they know.
McCain apes Bush on Iraq, as Dems stand passively by
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His hard-liner stance should doom McCain with most voters, but unless Democrats put the war back on top of the national agenda, he might get away with it.
Those "leading radio hosts" have followed, not marshaled, the conservatives.
Camille Paglia's analysis, "Blood-and-guts politics," gets most of it correct except for her attribution of rank and file Conservatives' attitudes toward McCain. When she states that "...conservatives marshaled by leading radio hosts have hotly rebelled against the onrushing nomination of Sen. John McCain..." she is wrong. In fact, it is Conservatives who have marshaled the radio talk show hosts. For just one example, on the leading Conservative web site, Free Republic.com, members there have overwhelmingly, and for a considerable time before Rush or Sean took up issue with McCain, rejected McCain as their choice for the GOP front-runner. Now that the issue of McCain has become contentious within the GOP, let's get it right: Conservatives are not led by radio talk show hosts.
-- Rudder
you can’t have it both ways and now complain he is too conservative
Another great Paglia line is “the three-faced Hillary”.
May be politically incorrect to say so, but I love Camille Paglia. She never spins, but speaks the truth as she sees it.. I disagree with her political positions on almost everything, but her I respect her honesty. Kind of like a female Lieberman.
Go Camille
I gained some respect for Pagila today. John McCain believes that Global Warming is caused by man. The very liberal Pagalia said she believes it is NOT MAN MADE!
If Camille can see the light, why can’t McCain?
Actually I agree with Paglia on a LOT of things. She is brutally honest and doesn’t whine. I LOVE it when she takes on gender feminists.
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