Posted on 02/28/2009 3:10:11 PM PST by reaganaut1
Washington — Conservatives might be seeking a spiritual leader, organizing principle and fresh identity, but they at least seem to have settled on a favorite rhetorical ogre: socialism.
As in, Democrats are intent on forcing socialism on the “U.S.S.A” (as the bumper sticker says, under the words “Comrade Obama”).
It seems that “socialist” has supplanted “liberal” as the go-to slur among much of a conservative world confronting a one-two-three punch of bank bailouts, budget blowouts and stimulus bills. Right-leaning bloggers and talk radio hosts are wearing out the brickbat. Senate and House Republicans have been tripping over their podiums to invoke it. The S-bomb has become as surefire a red-meat line at conservative gatherings as “Clinton” was in the 1990s and “Pelosi” is today.
“Earlier this week, we heard the world’s best salesman of socialism address the nation,” Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, said on Friday, referring, naturally, to a certain socialist in chief.
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas decried the creation of “socialist republics” in the United States. “Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff,” Mr. Huckabee said, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference here over the weekend, a kind of Woodstock for young conservatives.
“Socialism is something new for us to hit Obama over the head with,” said Joshua Bolin of Augusta, Ga., who founded a Web site, “Reagan.org,” which he calls a conservative analog to the liberal MoveOn.org.
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Doesn’t like the “S” word. What a wimp.
>> Doesn’t like the “S” word. What a wimp.
Yeah, well, he’s from the NYT. Just got one thing to say to you, Leibovich, sucka:
“Unemployed, boy! Laid off! Boo, hiss repeat!”
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving pile of dog doo.
Al Sharpton would consider that a racial slur.
What? What’s the matter Mark Leibovich, don’t you like working for TASS/PRAVDA?
Mitterand, the French Socialist President, is the one who coined the Change campaign theme years ago in order to justify all kinds of crookedness.
Obama cares not about the economy. This is an undeclared war.
“What? What’s the matter Mark Leibovich, don’t you like working for TASS/PRAVDA?”
Mark Leibovich? Another New York liberal Jew whose parents probably came off the boat and voted Democrat.
Obama is starting to look a LOT like a “Salvador Allende”. Obama, like Allende was elected by the people and the Socialist bastard proceeded to destroyed Chile.
The US DOES NOT need an Allende!
I will not renege on my promise to avoid controversial words.
Those who accuse the present crop of Democrats of being socialists are pretty much right on the mark.
It seems that “socialist” has supplanted “liberal”
The truth hurts.
Never worked anywhere . . . Europe, Asia, Russia, USA inner cities.
Won’t work here either.
Obama is starting to look a LOT like a “Salvador Allende”. Obama, like Allende was elected by the people and the Socialist bastard proceeded to destroyed Chile.
The US DOES NOT need an Allende!
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