GOP's Problem Lies South Of Mason-Dixon (Kathleen Parker Barf Alert!!!)

IBD Editorials ^ | August 4, 2009 | KATHLEEN PARKER

[Kaslin]

Southern writer Walker Percy liked to poke fun at Ohioans in his novels, just to even things out a bit.

"Usually Mississippians and Georgians are getting it from everybody, and Alabamians," he once explained to an interviewer. "So what's wrong with making smart-aleck remarks about Ohio? Nobody puts Ohio down. Why shouldn't I put Ohio down?"

Percy, the genial genius, laughed at his own remark.

Now, apparently, it's the Buckeye State's turn to poke back. In a fusillade of pique, Ohio Sen. George Voinovich charged that Southerners are what's wrong with the Republican Party.

"We got too many Jim DeMints (South Carolina) and Tom Coburns (Oklahoma)," he told an interviewer with the Columbus Dispatch. "It's the Southerners. They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr.' People hear them and say, 'These people, they're Southerners. The party's being taken over by Southerners. What the hell they got to do with Ohio?"

Down South, people are trying to figure out what "errrr, errrrr" means.

Jack Bass, author of eight books about social and political change in the South, speculated in an e-mail that Voinovich really meant grrrr, grrrrr, as in "growling canines whose bark scares more than do Obama's purrs, especially with the Dow at a nine-month high."

[Kaslin]

[cripplecreek]

Well I’m working on reelecting a yankee conservative here in Michigan. (Tim Walberg)

[DB]

My opinion of IBD is starting to drop since they willingly pay this woman money to print her drivel.

[ryan71]

True, we Southerners are a big problem for the Republican Party. We don't like the way the Republican Party acts like the Democrat Party. We are mad as hell.

RINO’s beware!

[LibLieSlayer]

mizzz parker continues to sell herself for hussama... making her a wh0re and hussein her pimp. If it were not for the South... America would have seen hussein's agenda long before now. I am sick of being attacked because we love GOD and Country here... that we hold honor above slickness and freedom above tyranny. I am sick of racism and bigotry against us... I grow sick of many things... and yet those that do the damage and those that shill for them like mizzz parker... keep pushing.

LLS

[gov_bean_ counter]

Up until a couple of years ago Auburn University in Auburn Alabama (of course you know where it is "Hunker Down you Harry Dog") produced more NASA astronauts than any other university in the US.

[Doogle]

...and the TOTUII hide while the discussion continues. If we had a dollar for every time Odumbo said “ah” without the teleprompters we'd be out of debt. The reason he keeps losing teleprompters....their committing suicide on national TV, because even they can't deal with the BS!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

That same rage was on display again in the fall of 2008, but this time the frenzy was stimulated by a pretty gal with a mocking little wink. Sarah Palin may not have realized what she was doing, but Southerners weaned on Harper Lee heard the dog whistle.

Stupid hussy just can't help herself...

[AlexW]

Well, I am a southerner from Tennessee.
I guess I am to roll over and become a compliant little Marxist.
I lived my entire life in the South, and would not have had it any other way.
Screw them all. As my tag says, “Happy not to be in the USA
now”

[Tarpon]

My guess the Democrats have no luck recruiting KKK terror wing members there anymore so now they try derision.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

The thing I find interesting about Parker is that she has disdain for Southern Conservatives and hates women!

[kempster]

It’s time to let these RINO’s know that we are no longer recruiting members of the quasi-Democratic Party. Whether were from Michigan or the South it’s over.

[PubliusMM]

“It’s the Southerners.”

Uh, no, George. We have too many Voinoviches in the government, you RINO gasbag. You were an embarrassment as Governor, and continued as Senator. Go home. You are out of your league.

It’s time to take back the country.

[Jagdgewehr]

Oh to Hell with the GOP.

This is more about urban elitist snobs looking down their noses at rural Americans whether they're from the South or the West.

[wmileo]

KATHLEEN PARKER is turning out to be as much of an insufferable bore as PEGGY NOONAN, assuming that is even possible!

[central_va]

Fellow Southerners, how much more must we endure before we have a hopefully peaceful split from Yankeeland? It appears more and more we have nothing in common with "those people", even less so now than in 1861. Am I crazy????..

[MortMan]

The GOP’s problem lies north of idiots like Parker’s shoulders.

[Roccus]

"We got too many Jim DeMints (South Carolina) and Tom Coburns (Oklahoma)," he told an interviewer with the Columbus Dispatch. "It's the Southerners. They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr.' People hear them and say, 'These people, they're Southerners. The party's being taken over by Southerners. What the hell they got to do with Ohio?"

What Voinovich fails to understand is that without our Southern friends, there would be NO GOP! (though I'm not so sure that would be a bad thing)