.Posted on 08/08/2006 8:37:16 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA-Hillary Clinton is the face of liberalism for most of America. Democrats trumpet her as their standard-bearer. Republicans use her as a bogeywoman to scare up dontations.
But in Ithaca, the “most enlightened city in America,” some residents think Hillary is…you will not believe this…a puppet of President Bush.
Writing in the Ithaca Journal, Ithaca resident Mona Sulzman complains:
our junior senator in U.S. Congress has been, and continues to be, very much “George's.”Unequivocal and continuing support for the war in Iraq, a pandering focus on flag-burning legislation, resistance to single-payer health care for all, and a willingness to dilute hard-won protection for a woman's right to choose signal who's camp Senator Hilary Clinton is in.
As a woman and registered Democrat, I want my, not George's, interests represented.
While this may be seen as bad news for Clinton that she is losing the “radical leftist” vote, she can take comfort in recent history. In 2004, many Ithacans also attacked John Kerry for his “pre-flip-flop” support of the Iraq war. However, as soon as he was nominated, the “Kerry/Edwards” signs sprang up all over Ithaca as if he had been their choice all along.
Until that point, however, the rest of the country will have to sit and scratch their heads at the fact that not even Hillary Clinton is liberal enough for Ithaca, the City of Evil.
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When they castigate her Royal Vileness for not being mean enough. Ithaca truly is the city of evil.
After this 'run to the radical left' runs its course for the Dem Party and they get their rear-ends handed to them on a platter it will make Hillary look electable.
I think Soros-CAP-Hillary have been encouraging the nutbags this whole time just for that very purpose.
No wonder so many other villages are having a hard time finding a village idiot, they are all in Ithaca.
I can't imagine what it must be like to live in Ithaca. It makes Baltimore look like a bastion of conservatism.
When the Bush bashers get riled up, it doesnt pay for anyone friend or foe to get in their way. they are certifiably insane.
I have friends who just moved there. They are conservative, but they LOVE it. It's a small community with a lot of artsy activities. Their children are grown, so they do not have to contend with liberal education issues. They raised their children in CA, so they know what that's like. They have found a great, Biblical church where they can fellowship with like-minded people and enjoy the culture at the same time.
They are either "faux conservatives" who will turn into outgoing leftists or they will soon become miserable.
Trust me. After a while of listening to the "artsy" and "cultural" people talk about how evil republicans are, and finding out they won't have friends if they speak their mind, they will be very unhappy if they aren't, themselves, indoctrinated.
There are a number of solid biblical churches here, and also a number of solid campus fellowships at Cornell. Sort of a sink or swim situation that encourages swimming.
The other alternative is to work on winsomely influencing individuals even if you can't turn the whole smugly-PC tide (which is indeed often tiring).
It won't happen. If you disagree with liberal orthodoxy even slightly they shun you.
They are true conservatives. They see the liberalism, but have found like-minded believers and are enjoying the culture there. It's possible. They do not drink kool-aid and do not come from cookie cutters. It's a very good thing that conservative Christians can find happiness in liberal communities. They add light to the darkness. For some people, that is what they are called to do.
That's what I figured. There are some great churches in liberal places. I got involved in a great church in college in a community that I hear has become very, very liberal. Light got there before liberalism took hold...
I suppose it depends on who "they" are: people you've just met (the more likely to flip out over conservative positions) vs. people you've befriended and helped over time. The latter may express suprise and/or shock as they learn that you (a polite, friendly, helpful educated person who speaks in complete sentences, no less) have conservative convictions, but this process of discovery changes them, not you, as you break the stereotype they've been given. (That said, there are still plenty of other idealogues around here who will direct you to the nearest cliff, and befriending them is harder because they may never have had any before ... friends, that it )
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