RT @DavidCornDC: This Just In: Smithonian Museum of Natural History announces it will open a moderate Republican exhibit. #landofthelost
RT @DavidCornDC: This Just In: Smithonian Museum of Natural History announces it will open a moderate Republican exhibit. #landofthelost
Moderate of course meaning “Republican who votes with the Democrats”.
That’s precisely what liberals used to say, in reverse, about Lieberman (when he was a Democrat), and still say about Ben Nelson, etc. They’re not “moderate” Democrats, they’re Democrats who vote with the Republicans!
Take off your partisan glasses for a second, and step back from looking at any one individual case (I’m not holding up Lieberman, or Castle, or anyone else personally as a saint). Broadly, do you honestly think the decline/exile of the Lieberman Democrat and the Castle Republican is good for the country?
do you honestly think the decline/exile of the Lieberman Democrat and the Castle Republican is good for the country?
More and more I am. The pragmatism of the professional ruling class/politician has after all brought us to here to the brink of disaster.
Besides..my comment was more about Corn than it was moderate Republicans.
While I’m no longer in thrall to the Church of Lieberman, Bloomberg, Bayh & Broder (i.e., moderation for its own sake, centrism & bipartisanship as a core moral value) to the extent I once was, nevertheless I would argue that while certain mistakes by the “professional ruling class/politician” may have “brought us to the brink of disaster,” holding governance hostage to increasingly shrill, uncompromising partisans and ideologues on both sides of the aisle will push us over that brink, into the abyss. I don’t see how we can possibly solve our nation’s massive problems when anyone with the slightest impulse to compromise or behave pragmatically is immediately denounced as a RINO or a DINO. Ronald Reagan would be primaried by the Tea Party in today’s environment, for daring to work with Democrats and exercise bipartisan leadership. RINO!!
P.S. As you know, I believe the primary mistake of the “professional ruling class/politician” has been relentless pandering to the Church of the Common Man, resulting in increasingly inane policy choices based solely on trying to conform with public opinion rather than trying to exercise leadership and move public opinion in a sensible direction. It’s like the difference between giving your kids cake and cookies for every meal, because you’ll get higher “approval ratings” if you do (and besides, all those “nutritionists,” with their Ivy League degrees and their “science” and their “facts,” are a bunch of Coastal Elitists anyway, and everyone knows the nutritional literature is hopelessly biased against cake-and-cookie-lovers), versus trying to making them understand why they need to eat fruits and vegetables. Nobody is trying to make America eat its fruits and vegetables anymore. You can call that a failure of the “ruling class” if you want, and you’re not strictly speaking incorrect, but it’s not a failure that demands throwing out the ruling class and replacing them with the very cake-and-cookie-eaters they’ve been pandering to!
(And yes, I did just compare the average voter to a small child, but you know what? I think the recent behavior of our society writ large, from the housing bubble and personal debt crisis to, quite literally, our eating habits, pretty strongly supports that comparison… and calling me an “elitist” won’t alter that, nor will mischaracterizing and exaggerating that position — as you did just recently, maybe even today, in a thread here — cause me to refrain from expressing it. I’m NOT saying the solution is for the government to serve as an overbearing nanny ordering us around; I’m just saying the solution, in part, is for our “leaders” to actually lead, which involves, among other things, presenting us with intelligent, rational, intellectually honest choices, and educating us about the actual nature of those choices — instead of demagoguing and lying to us in a cynical attempt at short-term political gain.)
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Wow, that linked article was a piece of crap gahrie.
“In the end, leftists’ Palin hatred is hatred of middle-class America itself.”
No, its seeing Palin as a bad leader. The idea that Palin == middle class is bullshit, plain and simple. Palin is an idiot. She is a failure as a leader. She is the Paul Wulff of politics, in WAY over her head. Rather than admit it, she blamed the media when it was her own ineptitude that was the source of ridicule.
Palin is the antithesis of the leadership this country needs. She rejects facts in favor of ideology! Her speeches ooze division and hate. To her “real” Americans don’t include those of us who disagree with her, or Bush, or McCain. We aren’t REAL Americans because the only REAL Americans would vote for her. How is that even a possible GOOD leader?? She plays up fear, lies, and patriotic fervor in order to gin up support. Ideas? She has none.
The middle class isn’t Palin, they are better then her.
She is the Paul Wulff of politics, in WAY over her head.
Heh. Except in Palin’s case, Wazzu (her campaign) may be awarded a spot in the BCS title game by pollsters (Republican primary voters) who mistake her 1-11 team for a championship contender. And then she’ll lose 63-3 (57% to 43%) to Obama (an SEC team), unless of course the economy is still terrible (her opponent is a Big East or ACC team), in which case she might be able to eke out a win (okay the analogy breaks down here, since there’s no circumstance under which Wazzu could beat anybody who could ever conceivably be in the title game).
They could if the buss carrying the first and second team ran into a ditch fell over burned down and sank into a swamp thus allowing Wazzu to play the third and fourth string… It would be possible, though unlikely, at that point.
She rejects facts in favor of ideology! Her speeches ooze division and hate.
Have you listened to the Democrats lately? “recovery summer” “We have to pass the bill to find out what is in it” “tax the rich..they are being greedy and not paying their share” “bitter clingers”