tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post3594008547983154986..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Cracking Open The Conservative MindSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-6486259631195442092010-04-28T04:02:41.385-05:002010-04-28T04:02:41.385-05:00McMegan's latest is calling...
I'm bettin...McMegan's <a href="http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2010/04/27/moral-obligations-are-for-little-people/" rel="nofollow">latest</a> is calling...<br /><br />I'm betting she watched <i>All the President's Men</i> and rooted for Nixon.Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-43856525649310283652010-04-27T21:40:58.704-05:002010-04-27T21:40:58.704-05:00ccccccccccccccKathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-72875349044138111682010-04-27T21:38:03.506-05:002010-04-27T21:38:03.506-05:00ccccccccccccccKathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-48240174123057849582010-04-27T19:01:06.233-05:002010-04-27T19:01:06.233-05:00Here, because I love you all, is what I wrote as a...Here, because I love you all, is what I wrote as a comment to Douthat's blog piece:<br /><br />Douthat repeats legends and myths as facts. Speaking of which: it is farcical to even call the political forces on the right "conservative." They're corporatist Republicans, period. <br /><br />Every tenet for which conservatives supposedly stand were triumphantly ignored during Bush--starting with the means by which Bush was put into office. Add to that nation-building, unfunded wars, domestic spying--but why go on? Even Douthat knows the list. Even JONAH GOLDBERG, god help us, knows the list.<br /><br />Actually the entire Republican Party knows the list and has been exerting might and main ever since W waved good-bye to pretend it doesn't exist.<br /><br />As for Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, etc.--if the right is bilingual at all, it's because it speaks both fluent demagogue and college-level mendacity. The right's 'intellectual superiority' is one of its more entertaining delusions, as endearing as watching a child make a muscle and announce that he is Batman.<br /><br />From "Reagan lowered taxes" to McCain saying he's "never been a maverick," the challenge for the Republican Party these days is to find those memo pads on which someone (presumably) jotted down the actual truth about the last thirty years. Without them, they're stuck not knowing the difference between what is really so, and the combination of propaganda, revisionist history, and knee-jerk cant that currently dominates the right-wing "mind."Mr. Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-38413289209298606032010-04-27T18:45:54.619-05:002010-04-27T18:45:54.619-05:00Let's see: Turner has been working in televisi...Let's see: Turner <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005508/" rel="nofollow">has been working in television since she was 18</a>, has done movies, and spent five years as a regular on a show that did well then and in syndication/DVD.<br /><br />In short, she's made at least mid-eight figures over her career: conservatively, about 1,000 times the median annual household earnings. And I'm probably low by at least a factor of 2 or 3.<br /><br />Short version: she can buy all the help raising Juliette she wants or needs. And apparently did, since her bio also doesn't show taking time off during her and Gauntt's daughter's younger years.<br /><br />A rich woman who buys help and doesn't let having a child interfere with her career. Glad to see conservative values abide.Ken Houghtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440837287933536370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-35384284585886536632010-04-27T17:14:41.033-05:002010-04-27T17:14:41.033-05:00I've often thought that whatever success conse...I've often thought that whatever success conservatives have in the ol' Marketplace of Ideas(tm) has little to do with the actual merits of their arguments; rather it's because their message resonates on a gut level with what a fair number of Americans want to believe about themselves. American Exceptionalism is so flattering and comforting: We're a nation of hardy, self-reliant pioneers; we send our brave sons and daughters to war only to free others, never for imperial gain; our love of justice and fairness is a light unto the world (umm...pay no attention those Negro slaves and massacred Indians); our businessmen are so honest and hardworking that we don't require regulation of the marketplace; our god is so loving and just that...jeepers...who WOULDN'T want to become a Southern Baptist? And on...and on... If that's what it takes to help the Janine Turners (and I really liked her as Maggie in "Northern Exposure") make sense of their lives...fine. But when they start trying to cram their delusions down my throat (hey... I might as well get some mileage out of their throat-cramming metaphor), well, I just have to set SOME boundaries.satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-66720662422256825242010-04-27T14:07:08.949-05:002010-04-27T14:07:08.949-05:00The only advantage conservatives have is that peop...<i>The only advantage conservatives have is that people like lower taxes.</i><br /><br />I disagree with this point. The evidence strongly suggests that large numbers of voters also like stomping brown people in the face.Lurking Canadiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-90893144018193865612010-04-27T14:04:52.555-05:002010-04-27T14:04:52.555-05:00It's not about policy, it's about power.
...It's not about policy, it's about power.<br /><br />Douthat & the other 3rd rate clowns that try to put an intellectual veneer on I Got Mine tribalism are dispensible tools.<br /><br />Gotta really stick their heads in deep to avoid seeing that.Downpuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10312490198813632190noreply@blogger.com