"Tim J." wrote in message
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Ken Fortenberry wrote:


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...otes110504.DTL

A much needed pep talk well and rightly said.

Not so fast, you stinkin' liberal. ;-)

Once again the point is being missed (not that it's a bad thing).
Read
this quote from the author:
"And besides, most hardcore Republicans would, of course, love it if
you'd leave the country, and take your gul-dang gay-lovin'
tofu-eatin'
tree-huggin' pierced-labia values with you. They would love it,
furthermore, if the libs in the morally shredded red states would
split
for the coastal cities and the major metropolises of America, all
those
godless heathen places where the neighbors won't yank the
Kerry/Edwards
sign outta your front lawn and chase you down and beat you with it
and
call it patriotism. Remember: bullies never deserve to own the
playground."

In another example of misguided and framed condescending tone, the
far
left again "endears" itself to people with whom it must conduct
discourse if the Democrats ever hope to acheive victory. This kind
of
venom-spewing article is why moderate Republicans and independent
voters
have been driven away from the Democratic Party in droves. Someone
in
the party had better decide how to gain the respect and attention of
the
voters who swayed the election, and it ain't by calling them a bunch
of
dimwitted morons. Articles like the one you reference are "preaching
to
the choir" when addressing far-left liberals, and irritating the
hell
out of everyone else.

Believe what you will, but if the next Democratic nominee for POTUS
sports a never-before-worn Red Sox cap claiming a fake care whether
they
ever win or lose another game, spouts in a proper-Bostonian
counterfeit
hick accent "Can I get me a huntin' license here?", and then has an
assistant carry his bird from the hunt because "he's tired", he or
she
won't get elected either. This kind of ruse isn't fooling anyone,
especially the "dumb and illiterate" voters of the South and
Midwest.
Keep it up.

All very interesting, but none of it has anything to do with the
recent ascendancy of the Republican party. The current lopsided
predominance of one party over the other is a result of one of them
relearning one of the oldest of political lessons; in a highly
segmented society power rests with those who do the best job
delivering a genuine appeal to traditional values......fear, greed,
and hate.

Wolfgang