Posted on 06/07/2012 5:38:29 AM PDT by servo1969
On Wednesday's The Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz took a lecturing and even mocking tone toward labor union members who voted for Governor Scott Walker in Tuesday's recall election in Wisconsin as he recounted NBC News exit poll numbers showing that a significant chunk of union voters supported the Wisconsin Republican.
The MSNBC host ended up invoking President Obama's assertion from the 2008 campaign that people in rural areas vote for Republicans because of a tendency to "cling" to guns and religion, and suggested that Obama was correct in his diagnosis of what he viewed as a problem that some union members in rural areas vote for Republicans instead of sticking with the union line.
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Its a pity that more people don’t see Ed Schultz on a regular basis. He is the real face of the Democratic Party. If people actually saw and heard these bizarre goons, doubt they would vote for them.
Just another variation of “shut up and listen to me, because I know how to run your life better than you do” that liberals are so fond of falling back on.
The public sector unions increasing threaten to bankrupt the states, and force people to choose between the republic and the unions.
Ben Franklin said "A republic, if you can keep it."
Some of us will choose to keep it. Schulz and his ilk sold his souls too long ago to be able to understand that any more.
Let’s not get too excited about Shultz’s comments.
One of his viewers was high on heroin.
And the other one was smoking dope.
But just as important, private sector union members PAY TAXES, TOO! They see what FDR saw when he would not allow public sector unions. A public sector union essentially holds a gun to the heads of all the taxpayers, saying in effect, “Pay us what we want, or else!”..............
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I would be interested to see the breakdown between public and private sector unions. I would bet you dollars to donuts that Walker was much more popular with members of private sector labor unions.
What the Democrats don’t want to acknowledge is that public and private sector unions are natural enemies, since private sector workers must pay the taxes that pay the public sector workers’ salaries. Layer on the fact that public sector unions have cut themselves cushy contracts that provide better compensation for little or no work, why should any working-class union member support them? The guy busting his hump down on the docks is not going to be too upset when the DMV clerk has to kick in 5% of his pension costs.
Add in the public sector union members smart enough to realize they have a good thing going, but they need to accept compromise or they will all be laid off when the state crashes and burns, and you get up to a quarter of the vote pretty quickly.
Great points!
I hope more people across the USA hear these “spokespeople” of the DNC and the liberal agenda - like Ed Schultz.
Ed believes tha a significant portion of Union members are bitter-clingers.
The sooner people see the snobbery of effete liberals, the better.
I hope Debbie Schultz, Ed Schultz or Sgt Schultz keep spewing this rhetoric.
Wow, those guys really hate God, guns, democracy and capitalism! I wish I could meet Mr. Ed or Chris Matthews on the street.
Thanks for the info. I can’t believe even that many people watch that clown Schultz. He’s crazier than an outhouse rat.
Maybe they just don’t want any part of the crowd that occupied the Capitol. Same feeling that Reagan capitalized on when he ran for Governor of California (regarding the rioters in Berkeley).
Well let’s hope that those 1,119,000 people are all in one place..........
He’s just mad that we aren’t yet Europe, where the union basically IS a party and the members can be counted on to vote in near-unanimous lockstep.
Because they were thinking long term?
Because they're worried about their children's futures?
Because they realize the gravy train can't run forever?
Because they secretly despise their union? Because what's right isn't the same as what's easy?
God Bless ethical union members... they helped win the recall for Walker - and they're working to keep the country safe...
Michigan auto workers were the primary heart of the Reagan democrats when Reagan ran for president.
Thanks, Servo. I had an uncle who was also my godfather. He worked for the Great Northern railroad. He was a lifelong conservative and a GOP voter. He worked in the local freight office of the GNRR.
He would say that at the office, everyone else was a Democrat, but he stuck to his guns politically.
He was so patriotic that although he was born in 1902, and was therefore not expected to enlist in the military during WWII, he actually signed up and told them he was born in 1903. They accepted him and he was in the US Navy in the Pacific theatre and fought on Okinawa.
We do still have patriotic people in the USA, but they are not heralded as they once were.
The Soviet Union...
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