Re: Don't Vote Republican

I was wondering how the Dems would try to falsify what PJ O'Rourke and
his column. Now we know. As usual the people of Slate will try to
twist and twist the meaning of anything until it resembles something
they can support and then will point and say see, this is what the guy
meant all the time. Then they will beat drums to accent their
ludicrous analysis and hope nobody notices just how ridiculous it is.
And people like Tommy will push the analysis for all they are worth, not
what the analysis is worth which is nothing. I would hope the citizens
can see through this MO which Slate has used over and over.

On 10/25/2010 03:27 PM, Tommy News wrote:
> P.J. O'Rourke Says Don't Vote Republican
> Posted Monday, October 25, 2010 9:37 AM | By Tom Scocca
> Prankster and humorist P..J. O'Rourke has fooled the Weekly Standard
> into printing a savage takedown of the conservative movement,
> masquerading as a takedown of liberalism. Democrats, O'Rourke writes,
> are nihilists with no interest in passing good legislation.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> That's the tell: O'Rourke is rallying the readers of the Weekly
> Standard on behalf of women, blacks, Hispanics, gays, the poor, and
> the middle class? Sure. And Jonathan Swift was in favor of eating
> babies.
>
> No, O'Rourke's message is that Democrats ("Democrats") are obsessed
> with nothing but power. They don't care how much damage they do to the
> country or even to themselves, as long as they can seize and use
> power. Resentment and jealousy are their only motives.
>
> By the time O'Rourke declares that Democrats support gay marriage
> because it allows them to bring "domestic private life" under
> "domination," the joke is clear. The writer is spoofing the voice of a
> movement so drunk on self-righteousness it's slurring its words. He's
> taken Dinesh D'Souza's embarrassing little stunt of blaming every
> Obama administration policy on radical Kenyan anticolonialism and made
> it even dumber, blowing it out from self-parody into full-on parody:
> here is what happens if you take one simpleminded theory and apply it
> to anything, for cheap polemical effect, because all you care about is
> scoring points. You end up praising illegal immigrants as
> anti-Democratic Party insurgents who are evading the "legal monopoly
> on force." In the Weekly Standard, yet.
>
> It's an elegant warning against the Republican obsession with winning
> at all costs. The party that marches back into command behind the
> banner of Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle, O'Rourke is warning
> his readers, is on a suicide mission. Anger and the will to power are
> corrupting—unexamined and unchecked, they turn politicians into
> tyrants, and they turn a humorist into a screeching blowhard.
>
> More:
> http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/2010/10/25/p-j-o-rourke-says-don-t-vote-republican.aspx
>
>

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