Michael Tomasky thinks Dems should write off the South
Dec 8, 2014 23:04:01 #
December 8, 2014
Michael Tomasky thinks Dems should write off the South
By Rick Moran
This is perhaps the most evil tempered, mean spirited column I've read in a while. It's written by liberal commentator Michael Tomasky - former US editor for England's radical Guardian newspaper - so it's not surprising because the last time I read such a rancid screed was also probably penned by Tomasky.
I would recommend a high colonic for Tomasky, except he's gutless so it wouldn't do any good.
In this Daily Beast column, Tomasky manages to smear the entire South while recommending that Democrats write off the region because "they don't need it." He begins by giving the back of his hand to Mary Landrieu who he compares to a "blind and toothless dog" that a vet is eager to euthanize:
I know that sounds mean about her, but I dont intend it that way. She did what she could and had, as far as I know, an honorable career. I do, however, intend it to sound mean about the reactionary, prejudice-infested place she comes from. A toothless dog is a figure of sympathy. A vet who takes pleasure in gassing it is not.
And that is what Louisiana, and almost the entire South, has become. The victims of the particular form of euthanasia it enforces with such glee are tolerance, compassion, civic decency, t***s-racial community, the crucial secular values on which this country was founded I could keep this list going. But I think you get the idea. Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything thats good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment. A fact made even sadder because on the whole theyre such nice people! (I truly mean that.)
With Landrieus departure, the Democrats will have no more senators from the Deep South, and I say good. Forget about it. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats dont need it anyway.
Actually, thats not quite true. They need Florida, arguably, at least in E*******l College terms. Although they dont even really quite need itwhat happened in 2012 was representative: Barack Obama didnt need Florida, but its 29 e*******l v**es provided a nice layer of icing on the cake, bumping him up to a gaudy 332 EVs, and besides, its nice to be able to say you won such a big state. But Florida is kind of an outlier, because culturally, only the northern half of Florida is Dixie. Ditto Virginia, but in reverse; culturally, northern Virginia is Yankee land (but with gun shops).
So Democrats still need to care about those two states, at least in p**********l terms. And maybe you can throw in North Carolina under the right circumstances. And at some point in the near future, youll be able to talk about Georgia as a state a Democrat can capture. And eventually, Texas, too.
You can almost taste the bile bubbling up into his throat. This piece of dreck has everything; nauseating elitism, a chauvinistic attitude toward a part of the country he clearly doesn't understand, an ignorance of religion, and an overgeneralization of what truly matters to Southern white v**ers.
R****m is no more prevelant in the South than it is in the North. It has been a conceit in the North since the end of the Jim Crow era that r****t attitudes prevail only south of Mason Dixon, and that it is the exclusive province of conservatives. In reality, it's a laughable political talking point having nothing to do with reality. Liberals photoshopping Joe Lieberman in blackface, making the most naueating r****t comments about Michelle Malkin, - these and other t***sgressions against decency are absolved on the left because, after all, their heart is in the right place on race. Instead, these and other examples of liberal r****m only prove that being a r****t does not depend on party or ideology. And for Tomasky to deny this fact is absurd.
If Democrats want to write off the South, let them. As the GOP e*******l advantage in the 1980's - a similar advantage liberals believe they have today - faded away, so too the Democrat's edge in the e*******l college will flip. Tomasky evidently fell asleep before the mid term e******ns and has yet to wake up. Republicans are competitive again in states the Democrats believe belong to them, especially Iowa, Colorado, and New Hampshire. Republican governors sit in the state houses of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The Democrats are becoming less and less competitive in border states like West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. Even deep blue states like Maryland and Massachusetts elected GOP governors.
They can't write them all off and say they don't need them. But if Tomasky and his friends want to flip the bird to tens of millions of v**ers who live a different kind of life than the coastal elites, believing that some things are more important than "diversity," "m**************m, and racialism, then it will be their loss and the GOP's gain.
This is perhaps the most evil tempered, mean spirited column I've read in a while. It's written by liberal commentator Michael Tomasky - former US editor for England's radical Guardian newspaper - so it's not surprising because the last time I read such a rancid screed was also probably penned by Tomasky.
I would recommend a high colonic for Tomasky, except he's gutless so it wouldn't do any good.
In this Daily Beast column, Tomasky manages to smear the entire South while recommending that Democrats write off the region because "they don't need it." He begins by giving the back of his hand to Mary Landrieu who he compares to a "blind and toothless dog" that a vet is eager to euthanize:
I know that sounds mean about her, but I dont intend it that way. She did what she could and had, as far as I know, an honorable career. I do, however, intend it to sound mean about the reactionary, prejudice-infested place she comes from. A toothless dog is a figure of sympathy. A vet who takes pleasure in gassing it is not.
And that is what Louisiana, and almost the entire South, has become. The victims of the particular form of euthanasia it enforces with such glee are tolerance, compassion, civic decency, t***s-racial community, the crucial secular values on which this country was founded I could keep this list going. But I think you get the idea. Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything thats good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment. A fact made even sadder because on the whole theyre such nice people! (I truly mean that.)
With Landrieus departure, the Democrats will have no more senators from the Deep South, and I say good. Forget about it. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats dont need it anyway.
Actually, thats not quite true. They need Florida, arguably, at least in E*******l College terms. Although they dont even really quite need itwhat happened in 2012 was representative: Barack Obama didnt need Florida, but its 29 e*******l v**es provided a nice layer of icing on the cake, bumping him up to a gaudy 332 EVs, and besides, its nice to be able to say you won such a big state. But Florida is kind of an outlier, because culturally, only the northern half of Florida is Dixie. Ditto Virginia, but in reverse; culturally, northern Virginia is Yankee land (but with gun shops).
So Democrats still need to care about those two states, at least in p**********l terms. And maybe you can throw in North Carolina under the right circumstances. And at some point in the near future, youll be able to talk about Georgia as a state a Democrat can capture. And eventually, Texas, too.
You can almost taste the bile bubbling up into his throat. This piece of dreck has everything; nauseating elitism, a chauvinistic attitude toward a part of the country he clearly doesn't understand, an ignorance of religion, and an overgeneralization of what truly matters to Southern white v**ers.
R****m is no more prevelant in the South than it is in the North. It has been a conceit in the North since the end of the Jim Crow era that r****t attitudes prevail only south of Mason Dixon, and that it is the exclusive province of conservatives. In reality, it's a laughable political talking point having nothing to do with reality. Liberals photoshopping Joe Lieberman in blackface, making the most naueating r****t comments about Michelle Malkin, - these and other t***sgressions against decency are absolved on the left because, after all, their heart is in the right place on race. Instead, these and other examples of liberal r****m only prove that being a r****t does not depend on party or ideology. And for Tomasky to deny this fact is absurd.
If Democrats want to write off the South, let them. As the GOP e*******l advantage in the 1980's - a similar advantage liberals believe they have today - faded away, so too the Democrat's edge in the e*******l college will flip. Tomasky evidently fell asleep before the mid term e******ns and has yet to wake up. Republicans are competitive again in states the Democrats believe belong to them, especially Iowa, Colorado, and New Hampshire. Republican governors sit in the state houses of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The Democrats are becoming less and less competitive in border states like West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. Even deep blue states like Maryland and Massachusetts elected GOP governors.
They can't write them all off and say they don't need them. But if Tomasky and his friends want to flip the bird to tens of millions of v**ers who live a different kind of life than the coastal elites, believing that some things are more important than "diversity," "m**************m, and racialism, then it will be their loss and the GOP's gain.
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Michael Tomasky thinks Dems should write off the South
By Rick Moran
This is perhaps the most evil tempered, mean spirited column I've read in a while. It's written by liberal commentator Michael Tomasky - former US editor for England's radical Guardian newspaper - so it's not surprising because the last time I read such a rancid screed was also probably penned by Tomasky.
I would recommend a high colonic for Tomasky, except he's gutless so it wouldn't do any good.
In this Daily Beast column, Tomasky manages to smear the entire South while recommending that Democrats write off the region because "they don't need it." He begins by giving the back of his hand to Mary Landrieu who he compares to a "blind and toothless dog" that a vet is eager to euthanize:
I know that sounds mean about her, but I dont intend it that way. She did what she could and had, as far as I know, an honorable career. I do, however, intend it to sound mean about the reactionary, prejudice-infested place she comes from. A toothless dog is a figure of sympathy. A vet who takes pleasure in gassing it is not.
And that is what Louisiana, and almost the entire South, has become. The victims of the particular form of euthanasia it enforces with such glee are tolerance, compassion, civic decency, t***s-racial community, the crucial secular values on which this country was founded I could keep this list going. But I think you get the idea. Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything thats good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment. A fact made even sadder because on the whole theyre such nice people! (I truly mean that.)
With Landrieus departure, the Democrats will have no more senators from the Deep South, and I say good. Forget about it. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats dont need it anyway.
Actually, thats not quite true. They need Florida, arguably, at least in E*******l College terms. Although they dont even really quite need itwhat happened in 2012 was representative: Barack Obama didnt need Florida, but its 29 e*******l v**es provided a nice layer of icing on the cake, bumping him up to a gaudy 332 EVs, and besides, its nice to be able to say you won such a big state. But Florida is kind of an outlier, because culturally, only the northern half of Florida is Dixie. Ditto Virginia, but in reverse; culturally, northern Virginia is Yankee land (but with gun shops).
So Democrats still need to care about those two states, at least in p**********l terms. And maybe you can throw in North Carolina under the right circumstances. And at some point in the near future, youll be able to talk about Georgia as a state a Democrat can capture. And eventually, Texas, too.
You can almost taste the bile bubbling up into his throat. This piece of dreck has everything; nauseating elitism, a chauvinistic attitude toward a part of the country he clearly doesn't understand, an ignorance of religion, and an overgeneralization of what truly matters to Southern white v**ers.
R****m is no more prevelant in the South than it is in the North. It has been a conceit in the North since the end of the Jim Crow era that r****t attitudes prevail only south of Mason Dixon, and that it is the exclusive province of conservatives. In reality, it's a laughable political talking point having nothing to do with reality. Liberals photoshopping Joe Lieberman in blackface, making the most naueating r****t comments about Michelle Malkin, - these and other t***sgressions against decency are absolved on the left because, after all, their heart is in the right place on race. Instead, these and other examples of liberal r****m only prove that being a r****t does not depend on party or ideology. And for Tomasky to deny this fact is absurd.
If Democrats want to write off the South, let them. As the GOP e*******l advantage in the 1980's - a similar advantage liberals believe they have today - faded away, so too the Democrat's edge in the e*******l college will flip. Tomasky evidently fell asleep before the mid term e******ns and has yet to wake up. Republicans are competitive again in states the Democrats believe belong to them, especially Iowa, Colorado, and New Hampshire. Republican governors sit in the state houses of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The Democrats are becoming less and less competitive in border states like West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. Even deep blue states like Maryland and Massachusetts elected GOP governors.
They can't write them all off and say they don't need them. But if Tomasky and his friends want to flip the bird to tens of millions of v**ers who live a different kind of life than the coastal elites, believing that some things are more important than "diversity," "m**************m, and racialism, then it will be their loss and the GOP's gain.
This is perhaps the most evil tempered, mean spirited column I've read in a while. It's written by liberal commentator Michael Tomasky - former US editor for England's radical Guardian newspaper - so it's not surprising because the last time I read such a rancid screed was also probably penned by Tomasky.
I would recommend a high colonic for Tomasky, except he's gutless so it wouldn't do any good.
In this Daily Beast column, Tomasky manages to smear the entire South while recommending that Democrats write off the region because "they don't need it." He begins by giving the back of his hand to Mary Landrieu who he compares to a "blind and toothless dog" that a vet is eager to euthanize:
I know that sounds mean about her, but I dont intend it that way. She did what she could and had, as far as I know, an honorable career. I do, however, intend it to sound mean about the reactionary, prejudice-infested place she comes from. A toothless dog is a figure of sympathy. A vet who takes pleasure in gassing it is not.
And that is what Louisiana, and almost the entire South, has become. The victims of the particular form of euthanasia it enforces with such glee are tolerance, compassion, civic decency, t***s-racial community, the crucial secular values on which this country was founded I could keep this list going. But I think you get the idea. Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything thats good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment. A fact made even sadder because on the whole theyre such nice people! (I truly mean that.)
With Landrieus departure, the Democrats will have no more senators from the Deep South, and I say good. Forget about it. Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats dont need it anyway.
Actually, thats not quite true. They need Florida, arguably, at least in E*******l College terms. Although they dont even really quite need itwhat happened in 2012 was representative: Barack Obama didnt need Florida, but its 29 e*******l v**es provided a nice layer of icing on the cake, bumping him up to a gaudy 332 EVs, and besides, its nice to be able to say you won such a big state. But Florida is kind of an outlier, because culturally, only the northern half of Florida is Dixie. Ditto Virginia, but in reverse; culturally, northern Virginia is Yankee land (but with gun shops).
So Democrats still need to care about those two states, at least in p**********l terms. And maybe you can throw in North Carolina under the right circumstances. And at some point in the near future, youll be able to talk about Georgia as a state a Democrat can capture. And eventually, Texas, too.
You can almost taste the bile bubbling up into his throat. This piece of dreck has everything; nauseating elitism, a chauvinistic attitude toward a part of the country he clearly doesn't understand, an ignorance of religion, and an overgeneralization of what truly matters to Southern white v**ers.
R****m is no more prevelant in the South than it is in the North. It has been a conceit in the North since the end of the Jim Crow era that r****t attitudes prevail only south of Mason Dixon, and that it is the exclusive province of conservatives. In reality, it's a laughable political talking point having nothing to do with reality. Liberals photoshopping Joe Lieberman in blackface, making the most naueating r****t comments about Michelle Malkin, - these and other t***sgressions against decency are absolved on the left because, after all, their heart is in the right place on race. Instead, these and other examples of liberal r****m only prove that being a r****t does not depend on party or ideology. And for Tomasky to deny this fact is absurd.
If Democrats want to write off the South, let them. As the GOP e*******l advantage in the 1980's - a similar advantage liberals believe they have today - faded away, so too the Democrat's edge in the e*******l college will flip. Tomasky evidently fell asleep before the mid term e******ns and has yet to wake up. Republicans are competitive again in states the Democrats believe belong to them, especially Iowa, Colorado, and New Hampshire. Republican governors sit in the state houses of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The Democrats are becoming less and less competitive in border states like West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. Even deep blue states like Maryland and Massachusetts elected GOP governors.
They can't write them all off and say they don't need them. But if Tomasky and his friends want to flip the bird to tens of millions of v**ers who live a different kind of life than the coastal elites, believing that some things are more important than "diversity," "m**************m, and racialism, then it will be their loss and the GOP's gain.
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Dec 9, 2014 07:25:33 #
Dec 9, 2014 08:59:53 #
Yankee Clipper wrote:
December 8, 2014
Michael Tomasky thinks Dems should write off the South
Michael Tomasky thinks Dems should write off the South
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I think humanity should write off Michael Tomasky (I never heard of the creep until today).
Dec 9, 2014 11:35:58 #
I wish the left would "write off" the entire country and go affect the colon of some other country......
Tasine wrote:
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I think humanity should write off Michael Tomasky (I never heard of the creep until today).
I think humanity should write off Michael Tomasky (I never heard of the creep until today).
Dec 9, 2014 11:53:31 #
Ve'hoe wrote:
I wish the left would "write off" the entire country and go affect the colon of some other country......
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
I'm with you!!!!
Dec 10, 2014 15:33:00 #
I have been around rural people from all parts of this country and find they have more in common than they have differences. Unlike the metro life style peoples from the same areas. The country people believe in working, not spending what you don't have and leave me and mine to do our thing and we will not mess with you. The liberial [ educated ?????] metros on the other hand want to give to any cause [ they specializie in lost causes] at the expense of the working until all are d**gged down to the level of the lost causes they profess can be saved even though they have proven over and over many times that they don't want saved. JUST SEND ME A CHECK is all they want.
Dec 11, 2014 05:12:20 #
motive power wrote:
I have been around rural people from all parts of ... (show quote)
I agree with you about the "educated" metro yokels and rural folk. Rural people are really into reality whereas cityfolk tend to have the herd instinct, and go along to get along ------------ hence all of the city critters appear exceptionally stupid and divorced from reality.
Dec 11, 2014 07:36:14 #
"Herd" is much too sophisticated for city dwelling mutants,,, "lemming" is more what I was thinking..
Tasine wrote:
I agree with you about the "educated" metro yokels and rural folk. Rural people are really into reality whereas cityfolk tend to have the herd instinct, and go along to get along ------------ hence all of the city critters appear exceptionally stupid and divorced from reality.
Dec 11, 2014 11:49:38 #
Ve'hoe wrote:
"Herd" is much too sophisticated for city dwelling mutants,,, "lemming" is more what I was thinking..
I would throw in this analogy, they'd have the herding instincts of rats leaving a sinking ship. No offense I think lemming is too kind of term for such Marxist parasites. Either way we've got them pegged.
Dec 11, 2014 12:11:38 #
Yankee Clipper wrote:
I would throw in this analogy, they'd have the herding instincts of rats leaving a sinking ship. No offense I think lemming is too kind of term for such Marxist parasites. Either way we've got them pegged.
How about cockroaches?
Dec 11, 2014 14:39:24 #
Dec 11, 2014 16:04:04 #
Yankee Clipper wrote:
That seems fitting also doesn't it.
Cockroaches, l***hes, maggots, etc.......all are quite descriptive of the political left of today. I stress "of today" because Democrats haven't always been openly decadent. They are currently abscesses on the butt of humanity, as low as decadent Muslims with about the same set of principles.
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