Posted on 02/20/2010 1:46:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Shakespeare himself could not have chosen a better foil for Barack Obama than Sarah Palin. The professor and the hockey mom make the perfect pair to dramatize the ongoing contest between liberal condescension and conservative populism.
A lot of ink and pixels have been expended lately to castigate what Jacob Weisberg, writing in Newsweek, terms the "childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large." Time's Joe Klein likewise casts his gaze across the land and sees only "a nation of dodos," who are "flagrantly ill-informed" because they think federal stimulus funds have been misspent.
Writing in The Boston Globe, Renee Loth terms Republican Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate race a "collective primal scream." The "lesson of Massachusetts," says the L.A. Times' Tim Rutten, is: "Anger." In The New York Times, Charles Blow finds that as America has become less enthralled by Obama it has become more "angry," "riled," and filled with "bloodlust." The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne tries to comprehend the "rage" and "venom" of the Tea Party movement and, after careful consideration, decides they are owing to two things: Many members of the movement are racist, and the rest are simply oblivious to facts.
This is nothing new. Those with long memories, such as The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto, recall nightly news anchor Peter Jennings' reaction to the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. Comparing Americans to a 2-year-old child, Jennings concluded "the voters had a temper tantrum." Gerard Alexander, a professor of politics at UVa, goes back even further to recall Lionel Trilling's view that conservatives do not "express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas."(continued)
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Don’t forget about the faux conservatives George Will, Peggy Noonan, Dorothy Rabinowitz, etc who can’t stand the fact that the common folk are rebelling against the DC “elite.”
The egalitarians are parasites. The welfare recipients are parasites. Big government is full of parasites. The parasites have consumed everything left to consume. The parasites still wonder what the problem is. ROFL. Stupid ungracious lazy losers.
If the ‘94 elections were a temper tantrum,then this year is going to be an uprising.
The one thing that we all have to remember.
The ones in power now have for the last 30 years have been infiltrating the Colleges and Universities, Democrat Party and all levels of Government.
Their epic FAILURE in the late 60’s and 70’s to forcefully take control of these entities was replace by the “if you want to change the system then you have to get control of that system from inside”.
Well the Commies,Fascist, Socoalist have done just that.
The msm is their propaganda arm.
I certainly hope that all of the Tea Party members this tactic.
You notice that none of the Green-Libertarian_Ralph Nader types are not welcome.
We can not win this war unless we become the voice of the Republican Party. (only option)
The power of the VOTE is now the most IMPORTANT process to stop the destruction of American Society.
Is it torch and pitchfork time yet?
It’s time to add Ann Coulter to that list.
When asked who she thinks should be considered a likely 2012 Republican presidential nominee she named Romney. Huckabee’s name came up but Coulter’s failure to even mention Palin is just crazy.
I don’t know what’s driving Coulter but it sure as hell isn’t conservatism.
I prefer the kinder gentler, approach...
(starts gathering tar and feathers)
Ya gotta wonder if the Left’s elites are getting ready
to “save” us from democracy. A benevolent dictatorship has
always been step one for Marxists.
Coulter is facing spinsterhood and a Maureen Dowd existence for the rest of her life. She’s jealous of Palin’s ability to have a family and a career.
“Bloodlust”, “rage and venom”, eh? If those socialist bastards cram govt health care down our throats they will get an education in what bloodlust, rage and venom are all about.
that’s pretty much the way I see it too
It’s sad that so many aging single white women spew such venom and hold such contempt for Sarah Palin and her beautiful family.
Notoriety and $$$$$$ seem to be her primary motivations.
New York Times “uber conservative” David Brooks calls us “Tea-Party Teens”. Well Dave, at least we did not squeal with delight over Obama’s nicely creased jeans, and then dismiss Sarah Palin like some jealous junior high tween girl.
From Johnny Hart’s comic strip, “Wizard of Id,” “Sire, the peasants are revolting.” “But, what are all the guns for?” Pretty well sums up the “elites’” attitudes towards us.
Virtually all lib elites are products of academia. In that milieu, distrust of the average person and love of abstract, egalitarian-socialist ideals are rife. Obama is the best exemplar of that atmosphere. But one thing people should know is that jealousy of the wealth of businessmen probably drives a lot of these lefties. They know they’re secure in their tenured bubbles, but great wealth eludes them. Sure, there are the Chomskys and Zinns who thoroughly detest capitalism. But many of them are greedy sobs. They should be justly compensated for their great ideas and not someone who sells diapers or tires. That drives them insane. The world is not just (as in “social justice”), so they will make it just.
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