Posted on 08/05/2009 4:13:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Texas is also taking Caterpillar from up North. One of many.
Bring it on.
She is right, and 50 years is a bit short! Unless the NE wing of Republicans force other options.
But before the party of the Great Emancipator can rise again, Republicans will have to face their inner Voinovich and drive a stake through the heart of old Dixie.
And you, KATHLEEN PARKER, you and your elitist friends either help us stop the destruction of the Nation, or simply step out of the way and we will do the job.
Stupid cow! She thinks there is othing between the Boston-Washington Corridor and Hollywood. That’s also what’s between her ears.
The South may have its sins (mostly caused by transplanted Yankees); but at least we have the good manners to stay awake when someone is speaking about important matters.
America missed its opportunity to separate peaceably in 1964. The price will be much higher now.
Deo vindice
Stupid bitch doesn’t realize NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE GOP! It’s Conservatism!
No
You don’t have to read the editorial and since when does IBD have to ask you who they can choose?
Here’s the lefts plan for those pesky Southern Senators ...
Courting Snowe And Collins To Defang Senate Republicans
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/courting-snowe-and-collin_b_161097.html
The view from here is that Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn speak for us a whole lot more than Voinivich. I personally really like DeMint getting the air time he is, and he certainly is far better than Lindsey Graham...
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She is nothing but a snob
I was thinking this morning that the big divide is not really north and south. It’s city vs. suburb and rural. Cities have become, for all intents and purposes, states. In many states they define the electoral direction of the entire state, and therefore select the type of government the entire state lives under. This is essentially the same type of diluted representation the founders were trying to avoid by putting in place things like two senators per state, and the electoral college. However, they didn’t envision that the states themselves would become so demographically divided.
The lifestyles of people who live in major cities, and the things that effect their daily lives most, are significantly different than those living rurally, or even in the suburbs in many cases. Nonetheless, the cities define states politically. I wonder what the country would look like right now if we divided up states such that the cities in each state vote for one senator and the rest of the state votes for the other. And/or we limited the number of Congressional districts there could be in a specific area of land, irrespective of population in that area (i.e. limit the density of congressional districts).
For example, the Chicago ‘area’ has 11 Congressional districts. Seven of those are held by democrats, including one former black panther. At least 6 of those are grouped close together and represent a fairly small area of land (1,3,4,5,7,9) and are all held by democrats. This is almost 1/3 of all the congressional seats in the entire state, and represents a very small portion of the states land area. Arguably, although not-monolithic, there is a much bigger divide between the way people from the city and suburban-rural areas think and what’s important in their lives than there is among people in those close together congressional districts in the city that essentially always vote for the democrat.
The bottom line is that representation of those not living in large urban areas has been markedly diluted in the country. I don’t have a solution, but it is an issue that has significant consequences.
And Kathleen Parkers.
Example: Not all Southern Republicans are wing nuts.
Voinovich was an obstacle to President Bush's agenda for eight years. Now it seems he still wants to grab headlines for attempting to cripple the entire GOP.
Nobody's taking about a federal mandate for school prayer and Bible readings. The "religious extremists" just want to go back to the standard held for most of this nation's history.
And most pro-lifers will be happy to quit -- at the federal level anyway -- with overturning Roe, which is very bad law, and cutting off fed subsidies to abortionists.
If you think these things are unreasonable, well, I guess there is not much chance at getting your vote.
OTOH, if you want access to doctors for health care rather than bureaucrats, and reasonable taxes and drivable cars and safe streets and a military able to defend the freedom you take for granted, you better stick with us.
This towering genius seems to have missed the fact that the Southern base was without North Carolina and Virginia. And I'm sure she missed the fact that the real story of the 2008 election was the fact that a significant number of conservatives stayed home.
The 2008 campaign didn't galvanize anything, but showed the weakness of the party when a RINO candidate heads the ticket. The 2008 campaign showed what an impotent party the GOP is when it tries to be Dem lite, and when it tries to be acceptable to the empty headed Beltway pundits who pretend to be conservative while trying to stay on the invite lists to the best DC parties.
IBD has the best editorials of any newspaper today. They print one under the heading “ON THE LEFT” every day. Rarely does Kaslin post one under that heading here on FR, as they are mostly a waste of reading time. Parker’s article is just Too Insulting to large numbers of Americans to ignore.
Personally I'm embarassed that Voinovich calls himself a Republican. My singular image of him is crying on the Senate floor over the nomination of John Bolton. Yes, John Bolton! I'll take ten Tom Coburns and ten Jim DeMints over this phony!
And as far as what the hell they got to do with Ohio, why is the entire nation subject to the whims of an ultra-liberal representing San Francisco, and a real-estate con man from Nevada? Not to mention a faggot congressman from Massachusetts destroying the financial industry.....
No, you’re not crazy. For “northern elites,” the South is and has been a place for ignorant, backwards, uneducated, unsophisticated hicks. They have had this attitude for approximately 150 years - ever since the Industrial Revolution. Southerners simply want to live their lives in peace, with an emphasis on loyalty to God, country, family, and neighbor - as opposed to Northerners who want to run every tiny detail of everyone else’s life while making a huge mess of their own.
We here in the South will be the caretakers of the Republic and the Constitution.
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