Folks may think I'm focusing on Mr. Fineman. It's not intentional, I just added Newsweek's RSS feed to my list of sources and he keeps giving up these juicy targets for whacking.
Food Fight in the Big Tent
Are voters starting to turn against conservative Republicanism?
By Howard FinemanMay 24 - I'm wondering if we haven't just witnessed a turning point in politics. Years from now, when we look back on the "Gang of 14" deal, will we see it as the moment when the tide of conservative Republicanism crested?
This article isn't really all that bad. I have beef with one short phrase in particular:
A generation ago, voters turned against the Democrats for the excesses of their welfare-state, big-government thinking. Washington WASN'T the answer to everything.
Three words: Angry White Men. Their issue was (and is) 'political correctness,' 'affirmative action,' 'welfare mothers' and such...in other words, white guy identity politics. It is obvious at this point that "the welfare state" simply isn't an issue to most people (until you talk about someone else getting some benefit). So let's not pretend, shall we?
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"Folks may think I'm
"Folks may think I'm focusing on Mr. Fineman."
Trust me, it would be quite okay if you were singling him out for his fair share of abuse. He has made a career of doing the same to others. If you want to kick him, I would more than pleased to hold your hat while you do it.
It seems a lot of folks feel
It seems a lot of folks feel that way. I think Left wing zealots is in the top five most linked posts I've written.
Three words: Angry White
99.99% of conservative political discourse reduces to NOTHING more than white male identity politics. Frankly, it's a clarifying relief to read it extolled in the unmistakeable buzz of white male anger, because these tirades so clearly limn the purely self-serving and unsustainable nature of what is euphemistically termed, *conservatism*. When I was a teenager, I was wont to ask, "what precisely is it that they seek to conserve". I don't have to ask that anymore, at all.
Now what perturbs me more, far more actually, is the non-negligible number of folks who are stuck in the lexical field of Orwellian conservative doubletalk and who have never penetrated this rhetorical maze to identify precisely what that memeset exists to serve.
I still oftentimes wonder whether so-called black conservatives are conscious of what it is that they've suborned themselves to? Does LaShawn Barber proudly and consciously understand precisely what she plays handmaiden to?
Does LaShawn Barber proudly
I still think she wants to be Michelle Malkin when she grows up. And now that MM took down the glamour headshot, she has a chance.
Honestly, I don't know if she knows, or cares about, enough history to understand.
LaShawn Barber is simply
LaShawn Barber is simply armed with opinions. The facts about an event or issue matter nothing at at all. Why would they matter to anyone who believes every word in the Bible is literally true?
I still think she wants to