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discocrisco01 Donating Member (524 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 02:34 PM
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Weekly Standard - Dems Are Drunk Power
They Hate Our Guts
Week

And they’re drunk on power.
November 1, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 07

Perhaps you’re having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP’s crowning glory—an isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine O’Donnell announcing that she’s not a witch. (I ask you, has Hillary Clinton ever cleared this up?) Fret not over Republican peccadilloes such as the Tea Party finding the single, solitary person in Nevada who couldn’t poll ten to one against Harry Reid. Better to have a few cockeyed mutts running the dog pound than Michael Vick.

I take it back. Using the metaphor of Michael Vick for the Democratic party leadership implies they are people with a capacity for moral redemption who want to call good plays on the legislative gridiron. They aren’t. They don’t. The reason is simple. They hate our guts.

They don’t just hate our Republican, conservative, libertarian, strict constructionist, family values guts. They hate everybody’s guts. And they hate everybody who has any. Democrats hate men, women, blacks, whites, Hispanics, gays, straights, the rich, the poor, and the middle class.

Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats.

Whence all this hate? Is it the usual story of love gone wrong? Do Democrats have a mad infatuation with the political system, an unhealthy obsession with an idealized body politic? Do they dream of capturing and ravishing representational democracy? Are they crazed stalkers of our constitutional republic?

No. It’s worse than that. Democrats aren’t just dateless dweebs clambering upon the Statue of Liberty carrying a wilted bouquet and trying to cop a feel. Theirs is a different kind of love story. Power, not politics, is what the Democrats love. Politics is merely a way to power’s heart. When politics is the technique of seduction, good looks are unnecessary, good morals are unneeded, and good sense is a positive liability. Thus Democrats are the perfect Lotharios. And politics comes with that reliable boost for pathetic egos, a weapon: legal monopoly on force. If persuasion fails to win the day, coercion is always an option.

Armed with the panoply of lawmaking, these moonstruck fools for power go about in a jealous rage. They fear power’s charms may be lavished elsewhere, even for a moment.

Democrats hate success. Success could supply the funds for a power elopement. Fire up the Learjet. Flight plan: Grand Cayman. Democrats hate failure too. The true American loser laughs at legal monopoly on force. He’s got his own gun.

Democrats hate productivity, lest production be outsourced to someplace their beloved power can’t go. And Democrats also hate us none-too-productive drones in our cubicles or behind the counters of our service economy jobs. Tax us as hard as they will, we modest earners don’t generate enough government revenue to dress and adorn the power that Democrats worship.

Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference. Democratic advocacy for feminism, gay marriage, children’s rights, and “reproductive choice” is simply a way to invade -power’s little realm of domestic private life and bring it under the domination of Democrats

Read more at http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/they-hate-our-guts_511739.html


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Not of the word of that article is true. We are the progressives and we know that message is false. Just another hack right-wing propaganda piece. I found it Free Republic. I cannot believe that they are so dumb to fall for that message.
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 02:37 PM
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1. "I found it Free Republic. I cannot believe that they are so dumb to fall for that message." OK
:rofl:

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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 02:41 PM
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2. Hate To Break It To You P.J.
They hate you!
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 02:45 PM
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3. I wish we would have been drunk on power. We should have come in with a flaming sword.
Edited on Sat Oct-23-10 02:45 PM by onehandle
Instead of a wet noodle called 'bipartisanship.'

On day one of this administration they should have said, 'Fuck you. We were put in control and you get to sit there helpless for a while.'
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-10 03:42 PM
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4. Neo-Cons on the Rampage.----Democrats might get in the way of
their War with Iran.
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