Posted on 10/20/2010 11:21:30 AM PDT by neverdem
Many of my more enlightened friends like to ask me: How could someone as intellectually gifted, delightfully urbane, profoundly moral, and breathlessly handsome not want to spit at these stupid Tea Party candidates, with their stupid positions and their stupid stupidity? (That's slightly embellished; obviously, I'm not that handsome.)
Do I wish there were more articulate and intellectual free market candidates? Sure I do. But alas, Americans are in no mood for know-it-alls who think sailing is a sport.
Do I wish that science-challenged believers would resist the urge to raise their hands when asked whether they believe the world is 5,000 years old? God, yes. But an election offers limited choices. Take Delaware, where voters can pick a candidate who had a youthful flirtation with witchcraft or one who dabbled in collectivist economic theory.
Only one of those faiths has gained traction in Washington the past few years. And as far as I can tell, there is no pagan lobby.
Do I wish that Colorado senatorial candidate Ken Buck hadn't declared that being gay is a choice (as if there were something wrong with choosing to be gay)? Yes. Do I wish he hadn't followed up by comparing a gay genetic predisposition to alcoholism? I do. If you were brainy enough to watch Meet the Press instead of wasting time in church last Sunday, no doubt you cringed at that primitive lunacy.
After all, what's more consequential than a faux pas about nature and/or nurture? Who cares that Democrat Michael Bennet was busy moralizing about the cosmic benefits of dubious economic theory and science fiction environmentalism—ideas that have already cost us trillions with nothing to show for it?
Just as long as we stay focused on what's important, right? We're so easily distracted.
Those who believe being gay is a choice are Neanderthals. The enlightened trust science. That's why the president appointed a science czar, people. A science czar who co-authored a textbook arguing for a mass sterilization of Americans to prevent an imagined population bomb. You know, "science."
God has no place in this faith. That's not to say that Yahweh has anything on our president, who once claimed future generations will see his election—Goliath government—as the point in history when we finally started "healing the sick" and "the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
Now, that's the kind of faith-inflected lingo we slack-jawed yokels can comprehend. Otherwise, the left's plans are just too darn complex for us to appreciate.
"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now," Obama recently explained, "and facts and science and argument (do) not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country is scared." (Wait. If we're hard-wired to be confused and we're confused, isn't science winning the day? It's all so perplexing.)
Science can explain all, including how bitter, frightened, clingy voters aren't grateful enough.
Or—and I realize this is probably crazy talk—voters aren't scared; they have just been paying attention and are turning to candidates who, though far less than perfect and not always sophisticated, better reflect their sensibilities.
David Harsanyi is a columnist at The Denver Post and the author of Nanny State. Visit his website at www.DavidHarsanyi.com.
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There's a way to answer this question, and there's a way not to. I probably agree with Buck, but I didn't hear or read the original text. The point is that the left is digging these various punji pits in the culture war, waiting for us to fall into which need to be avoided, when the economic and political fate of the country is at stake!
P.S. homosexuality is associated with fairly high mortality, and the tax payer is mostly picking up the tab for these antiretroviral drug cocktails that treat AIDS, over $10,000 per year per patient when I last checked.
Come on, this is another hit piece on the Tea Party.
I guess at some point people have to decide if they are responsible for their behavior or not.
If you are not, then there is no point in this whole “self-government” thing.
I don’t accept the premise that is assumed that those who believe in young earth creationism are “science challenged”.
Characterizing your political opponents as knuckle dragging, uneducated racists is as old a tactic as democracy itself, and fabricating facts to support the claim is likewise as old. The Tea Party shakes the socialist left to its boots, and short of a shooting war, they’ll do everything in their power to discredit it.
I hope you're joking, or you better read it again. It's satire.
They won’t stop short of shooting, either,
and will use the government to shoot their
political opposition if given the opportunity.
Neanderthals believed that being gay is a choice? Maybe that’s why there are no Neanderthals any longer.
I am a Bitter Clinger. Not sure if I get this guy’s points or not but...anybody who’s ever played with a ouiji board or read a horoscope can’t say anything about O’Donnell. I believe that homosexual behavior is a deliberate choice and I hold in contempt people who are afraid to say so. I am opposed to homosexuals in the military.
What the rinos and the dems don’t get is the fact that it is the tea party candidates “rough around the edges” performances that make us like them. We are SICK TO DEATH of professional arrogant SOB politicians.
“Yes, stay away from this crap. Focus like a laser on jobs, economy, budget deficit, national debt etc...”
Take the morality component out of the Tea Party and it will die.
It's not something to mention when you want to nationalize the election. It's a belief of a minority of the country.
The author is on our side.
well writ. Elected politicians have become a ruling class, and they must be punished by We the People. America was designed to REJECT aristocracy and a ruling class because the Founders witnessed what it had done to Europe.
Drain the Swamp and bring about term limits until we can re-train our citizens on these facts. The Constitution was an AGREED UPON contract that was to keep government in check. It is easy to comprehend, should be re-introduced into schools and no citizen should be allowed out of high school until they understand its principles. It is written so simply that a grade schooler should understand it (like all great documents).
I could not choose this behavior because at the most fundamental level it makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever and is aberrant and abnormal. I am ok with the behavior so long as I don’t think about or have it shoved in my face.
So when someone asks you if it is a lifestyle choice ask yourself if you could choose it. Strangely lesbians don’t bother me probably because I am hardwired to understand their attraction to women.
It's called 'cognitive dissonance'. Look it up.
It's satire. He's on our side.
I believe that homosexual behavior is a deliberate choice and I hold in contempt people who are afraid to say so.
Your free to believe what you want. I believe some queers are born that way, and others, whatever their reasoning, choose to be that way. Maybe their craving for sex makes them do it. That's just speculation.
I am opposed to homosexuals in the military.
I agree. I'm really afraid of what it might do to recruiting.
LOL! Thanks for that toon!
Keep in mind that a lot of the Tea partiers are middle of the roaders who often vote Democrat, but don’t want to be governed by the far-left. I’m not saying don’t talk about morality, but the main focus should be to stop our descent into poverty and authoritarian government.
That's your assumption. I agree with social conservatives on most issues, but it's not the time to divide us. That's what the left is hoping for. Wake up!
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