Little-Acorn
09-22-2010, 12:34 PM
Leftists currently seem to spend half their time ridiculing most Republicans for hypocrisy after they passed liberal entitlements, increased government spending, etc... and the other half ridiculing TEA party candidates for being naive enough to propose not doing things like that.
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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/we-re-sticking-with-the-yokels-103230929.html
We're sticking with the yokels
by VIN SUPRYNOWICZ
Sep. 19, 2010
Many of us went through a stage when we were embarrassed even to be seen with our parents or grandparents. They were just so ... uncool. Their clothes were all wrong, the cars they drove were all wrong. Compared to the parents of our much more sophisticated and stylish friends, our families seemed such insufferable clods and yokels.
Well, they were yokels. What changed, for those of us fortunate enough to outlive the phase, was that we came to wonder why we'd been embarrassed about the earthy folk and values and down-home communities that sustained our families and gave us birth. My grandma pronounced the word "vehicle" with a hard "h," was known to announce she was going to "warsh the deeshes," and committed many another assault on the English language as spoken by our urban elites, thus betraying the fact that the Bishops and Clarks had come to the hill country of Southeast Ohio a very, very long time ago, and survived even when there wasn't much to eat but what you'd put up in Mason jars and what the dog managed to tree.
We saved silver dollars. The "sophisticates" bought dot-com stocks and flipped real estate. Our silver dollars are still there.
Yet now we're expected to do it again. After years of complaining about slick urban politicians who trick us with focus-group-tested sound bites designed to imply they agree with us, but which turn out after the election to have meant something else entirely, we have brought forward a group of sincere smaller-government conservatives, not professional politicians at all, but yokels in plaid and polyester with a sound and simple faith in the founding principles of this republic.
(snip)
Then, if they stop answering "gotcha" questions, they're ridiculed for "hiding from the press."
And so we're told we should be ashamed, ashamed of that clumsy rural rube Sarah Palin or Rand Paul or Sharron Angle. Or, now, Christine O'Donnell of Delaware.
(When Ronald Reagan ran on a platform of shutting down the three-year-old federal Department of Education in 1980, he took 489 electoral votes to Jimmy Carter's 49. Today, with test scores plunging, running on this same platform is "too extreme?")
After all, when the most important thing is to elect as many people with "R"s after their names, it can only be suicidal to nominate people who actually believe in the kind of low-tax, small-government conservatism preached by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Gallatin, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan ... How many of them ever made it into public office ?
Oh ... wait.
(snip)
Will the nomination of principled conservative yokels like Christine O'Donnell lose the Republicans a few seats that might otherwise have gone "R" on Nov. 2? Maybe.
But with any luck, the newly invigorated smaller-government party that's thus built will actually offer Americans "a choice, not an echo."
So when those slick big-government sleazebags, so proud of all the machinery they've constructed to seize your wealth and empower themselves and their friends, urge you to be ashamed, ashamed of the Tea Party nominees because they're so crude, such yokels: hold your head high and say, "Yes, we're yokels. Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne didn't expect to have any trouble with these yokels at Saratoga. The British frigate Guerriere sailed up and down our coast with a barrel of molasses hanging from her mainyard to make fun of those yokels and their frigate 'Constitution.'
"But when Old Ironsides was done with the Guerriere, her English decks were awash in blood, brains and molasses, and there wasn't enough of her left to tow to port."
Send us more yokels.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/we-re-sticking-with-the-yokels-103230929.html
We're sticking with the yokels
by VIN SUPRYNOWICZ
Sep. 19, 2010
Many of us went through a stage when we were embarrassed even to be seen with our parents or grandparents. They were just so ... uncool. Their clothes were all wrong, the cars they drove were all wrong. Compared to the parents of our much more sophisticated and stylish friends, our families seemed such insufferable clods and yokels.
Well, they were yokels. What changed, for those of us fortunate enough to outlive the phase, was that we came to wonder why we'd been embarrassed about the earthy folk and values and down-home communities that sustained our families and gave us birth. My grandma pronounced the word "vehicle" with a hard "h," was known to announce she was going to "warsh the deeshes," and committed many another assault on the English language as spoken by our urban elites, thus betraying the fact that the Bishops and Clarks had come to the hill country of Southeast Ohio a very, very long time ago, and survived even when there wasn't much to eat but what you'd put up in Mason jars and what the dog managed to tree.
We saved silver dollars. The "sophisticates" bought dot-com stocks and flipped real estate. Our silver dollars are still there.
Yet now we're expected to do it again. After years of complaining about slick urban politicians who trick us with focus-group-tested sound bites designed to imply they agree with us, but which turn out after the election to have meant something else entirely, we have brought forward a group of sincere smaller-government conservatives, not professional politicians at all, but yokels in plaid and polyester with a sound and simple faith in the founding principles of this republic.
(snip)
Then, if they stop answering "gotcha" questions, they're ridiculed for "hiding from the press."
And so we're told we should be ashamed, ashamed of that clumsy rural rube Sarah Palin or Rand Paul or Sharron Angle. Or, now, Christine O'Donnell of Delaware.
(When Ronald Reagan ran on a platform of shutting down the three-year-old federal Department of Education in 1980, he took 489 electoral votes to Jimmy Carter's 49. Today, with test scores plunging, running on this same platform is "too extreme?")
After all, when the most important thing is to elect as many people with "R"s after their names, it can only be suicidal to nominate people who actually believe in the kind of low-tax, small-government conservatism preached by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, Albert Gallatin, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan ... How many of them ever made it into public office ?
Oh ... wait.
(snip)
Will the nomination of principled conservative yokels like Christine O'Donnell lose the Republicans a few seats that might otherwise have gone "R" on Nov. 2? Maybe.
But with any luck, the newly invigorated smaller-government party that's thus built will actually offer Americans "a choice, not an echo."
So when those slick big-government sleazebags, so proud of all the machinery they've constructed to seize your wealth and empower themselves and their friends, urge you to be ashamed, ashamed of the Tea Party nominees because they're so crude, such yokels: hold your head high and say, "Yes, we're yokels. Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne didn't expect to have any trouble with these yokels at Saratoga. The British frigate Guerriere sailed up and down our coast with a barrel of molasses hanging from her mainyard to make fun of those yokels and their frigate 'Constitution.'
"But when Old Ironsides was done with the Guerriere, her English decks were awash in blood, brains and molasses, and there wasn't enough of her left to tow to port."
Send us more yokels.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)