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Re: Riddle me this...
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Are rednecks/hillbilies the elite rich?
Just a thought in retrospect. Since all we've heard for the past 4 years was about how Bush favors the rich, yada yada yada. Now after the election, it's no longer about the rich--it's about the rednecks and hillbillies.
Are said rednecks and hillbillies the elite rich? What say you? IMO, it seems like a change in stance by the left in an attempt to understand Kerry's defeat. Just curious. |
Of course not - I'm beginning to wonder if the Republicans are attempting to depict the Democrats as labelling your entire party as the Redneck Bible-beatin' South.....
Sure enough, that's pretty much all that Limbaugh's been talkin' about today. Peering onto Hannity/Colmes last night, I got the distinct impression that Hannity was essentially stating the same thing.
Here's the deal - if any Dem. wants to label the entire Republican party as nothing more than a bunch of hillbilly hicks, then they would be sincerely fallacious in doing so. Your argument, along with these Conservative mouthpiece arguments would therefore be valid. I won’t claim that these assertions by maybe a select handful of misguided or shortsighted Dems. aren’t in existence, but I have yet to see such claims myself.
What I AM noticing, however, is merely the fact that the Religious Right has become well-aligned via voter turnout and activism for your Republican party, and they have already begun pushing their agenda through our government as a means of payback for greatly assisting in Bush’s re-election. If that seems untrue, then perhaps we should examine who exactly is creating the stir about Arlen Specter’s Chairman seat on the House Judiciary Committee and what he had stated last week was so controversial. IOW, the Religious Right is only part of the cohesive whole of the Republican party whom got Bush re-elected as well as earned more seats in the Legislature.
This is what I have seen as the understanding by the Democrats. However, I won’t deny that there is a certain “guilt by association” involved with this either, and that some Dems. are stating that if the Repubs. are going to have such an association with Religious Right, then the Dems. are going to hold them to their associations and assert that, indeed, the Repubs. are going to have to dance with the date that they brought to the ball. And honestly, I fail to see why this would truly be so unfair, considering the ongoing association, or shall I say fixation the Right has with Michael Moore and the Democratic Campaign.
But to state that the entire Republican party are a bunch of hillbilly Southern hicks would be fallacious by the Dems. – and it is equally fallacious of any Conservative blathering mouthpiece to try and assert that the Dems. are making such assertions as a whole.
The credit I give to the Republicans is the fact that, despite the difference in interest groups within the party and the seeming conflicts associated with the respective policy priorities of these groups, Carl Rove and the Repubs. have managed to perform a magnificent job in keeping these Conservative groups together in defeating a common cause (or enemy if you will) – John Kerry. I left work a tad bit early for the dentist yesterday, and managed to capture the majority of the following show on Fresh Air yesterday. Although I don’t agree with all of their assessments, I think both of these British authors nailed many points right on the head in regards to the Republican Party this election cycle. Have a good listen to the program if you have some time:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/...storyId=4165172
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I yearn to shout,
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