Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Cocktail party Republicans: who's next in line?

  It's funny how the political parties have changed over the years. In the fifties and a bit later, true democrats, in general, seemed to be loving family people, loyal to the country, liberal in their viewpoint as far as being kind and generous to their fellow citizens. Many of them voted for Reagan. Republicans, otoh, have also been hard-working blue collar folks, those who believed in conservative values and pretty much voted the way their parents did.
  Now democrats have become liberal, liberal, liberal and their party's been overrun by communists, code pinkos, union thugs, con artists, college elitists and rich people who want to control the lives of the "small people." Republicans have become a bunch of old white guys standing in line for their turn at the trough or the presidency, professional politicians. Some are rich country clubbers who don't want to dirty their hands with the likes of the tea partiers or their candidates, some of whom are rough and took 5 or so years to get through state schools or community colleges. 
  There's a war going on now, and it's not necessarily between democrats and tea partiers.
  It's between non-politicians and professional politicians who've become accustomed to being treated like lords and ladies, and who think they have a right to order others around, to control every aspect of the small people's lives (like the accusation made so frequently against Christians in the past). 
  In fact, it is true now that liberals are the ones who want to destroy independence, freedom and privacy. Liberal progressives are the ones who are making all the rules, right down to the last thousandth page of regulations. 
  The fight for the Republican presidential nomination thus becomes a harder fight than the one against Obama in the 2012 elections.
  Some of the most scintillating writing on the web about this issue can be found over at Hill Buzz, the gay Chicago liberals who now despise the democrat party for any number of reasons. Here's a bit from their latest article about Mitt Romney's presidential bid. The whole article is quite insightful. Read it here:
At cocktail parties in large cities across the country, these guys in their blazers, with women in their best Ann Taylor, get together and scorn the Tea Party and its grassroots energy.  They don’t believe the Republican Party should be run from the bottom up, because they enjoy being in the Union League or City Club looking down on the rabble from their penthouse view.  Scotch on the rocks in one hand, with their resumes in the other, these Cocktail Party Republicans see political campaigns as networking opportunities to advance their careers and afford them opportunities to get better, more important jobs in the future by way of the political connections they’ll make if Mittens Romney is the nominee.

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