Cupp has a couple of things going for her. However, she does need to work on her reasoning skills.
Posted on 02/22/2013 12:02:52 PM PST by Mozilla
One reads S.E. Cupp on Rush Limbaugh and the late Lee Atwater and has to wonder.
One reads her compatriot young conservative friends in the New York Times and has to wonder.
Do these conservatives even listen to themselves?
Are they really conservatives — or just the latest, newest incarnation of that age old 20th century invention: the GOP moderate? The newest sparkling edition of a wannabe Ruling Class? Making the rounds of the bar scene in Manhattan and New York and longing to be hip?
Or are we witnessing something else? Something simpler yet more troubling?
A lack of historical awareness of conservatism. Are we seeing young conservatives who seem not to have grasped conservatism whole? Who do not understand the seamless thread that binds conservative values as a way of life, from the Constitution to gay marriage and abortion to free market economics and dealing with Al Qaeda?
Young conservatives who have a lack of perspective of both conservatism’s intellectual foundation and in this case the ferocious politics that swirl constantly around its most prominent champions? With apologies to the late Allan Bloom and his 1987 bestseller (The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students), are we witnessing a freezing of the conservative mind? (Note: Ex-Bush aide Pete Wehner has conjured the freezing metaphor in a slightly different way over at Commentary.)
First, let’s deal with the Rush business.
As mentioned earlier this week, the New York Times Magazine cover story on a group of young GOP techies and commentators — of which Ms. Cupp is a leading member — was discussed in this space.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Not that complicated. The C cupster is a self promoting fluker pandering to her MSNBC audience.
Born and raised in California and relocated to MA.....definitely not a conservative. A GOP-Elite maybe because the field of competitors for good looking commentators of that genre is limited, but not a conservative.
Links to read:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/02/se-cupp-limbaugh-not-infallible-157299.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/won-rushed-article-1.1267200
Not sure Why but the American Thinker article Grow Up S.E. Cupp seems to have been pulled. It praised the Jeffery Lord piece in the American Spectator. It was buy J. Robert Smith.
“S.E. Cupp” sounds and looks like a “Porn””Star”.
Here is a link I had open to the article in tab:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/02/grow_up_s_e_cupp.html
But clicking a newer link couldn’t connect to article. Might be on my end. Maybe.
Sure, a bit may be lack of perspective. After all, they do not teach conservatism in school, so young conservative converts are often picking it up as they go along, maybe from a few books, the internet, or ironically, Rush Limbaugh himself.
Don’t underestimate the “hip” factor that he mentions though. A lot of urban and suburban young “conservatives” just don’t want to deal with being ostracized from their peers if they buck the gay marriage trend. You can usually defuse any arguments about economics, foreign policy, and even other social issues with liberals, but fag brigade is inconsolable if you don’t toe the line.
She brings the wealth of experience, wisdom and gravity that only an Art History graduate has.
If this country is to survive, the GOP must forget trying to please the moderate voters. Romney carried these voters, but was still overwhelmed by the "low information" voters. Going back to its conservative roots is the only way the Republican party will survive as a force in American politics.
Cupp has a couple of things going for her. However, she does need to work on her reasoning skills.
I am more inclusive and tolerant than they could ever be. You will never find a Bigger Racist than my stupid "Progressive" Cousins right out of High School.
Absolutely no one is above criticism or questioning, but it would sure as Hell Help S.E. Cupp's case if she Gave Us Specifics on what Rush has said that needs to be stood up too!
Otherwise she is simply pandering the Republican Moderate.
How about they go Moderate the party that needs it.
S.E. is a Smart gal and could go places, but her airheadedness is starting to get the better of her and maybe a smack down from Maja Rushie is in order to deflate her ego.
Maybe its just me but I’ve never been big on women who feel the need to wear men’s dress clothes.
I’m also big on women who have solid critical thinking skills and Cupp appears to fall a bit short here.
I listen to Real News on the BlazeTV every day, where Cupp is a regular commentator, and while I used to like her a lot, lately when I listen to her, it seems she really likes the sound of her own voice, more than anything. She’s kind of high on herself, IMO.
Ahoy, Pollster1, regarding the video clip of Miss Cupp massaging her leg, what is the story with that? Did she actually do that on TV? If so what was the context?
It's not going to work out the way he plans.
If this country is to survive, the GOP must forget trying to please the moderate voters. Romney carried these voters, but was still overwhelmed by the "low information" voters. Going back to its conservative roots is the only way the Republican party will survive as a force in American politics.
I could not have said it better myself RJ.
You are 100% right on the Money. I was Born in June of '88 at the right end of Reagan's presidency and it's sad that they America of '88 is no longer here, we are weaker and more divided than ever before.
Progressivism has infected both parties, that is why the GOP-E hates Sarah Palin so much.
I was 20 years old when I voted for Sarah in '08 and the GOP-E who hate her today can go kiss my ass.
They have moderated the GOP into a Coma and attack anyone who try's to shake them out of it.
If the GOP wanted to survive they would circle the wagons around Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann instead of being the first to attack them when they call out their liberal friends.
But no need to freak out, it was on Greg Gutfield show Red Eye.
I assume she did that on TV and I have no idea of the context. I don’t actually watch TV and have never seen her live. I’m just an admirer of her looks and hopeful that her logical reasoning skills will grow over time.
S.E. is a smart cookie, but she maybe spending to much time with that idiot on the right, what's his name, Django Unchanged guy.
Like much of her generation Miss Cupp seems to think that recorded human history began around 1982.
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