I pop in over at Larry Johnson's blog occasionally just to see what the other side is up to. Usually it's no surprise, "Bush is evil blah blah blah, we're losing the war blah blah blah, only Hillary can save us blah blah blah", today however I had a little bit of a surprise. I came across a post entitled "Maybe? Maybe we drank the Kool-Aid". In it the author questions whether the Republican party is really the party embracing equal rights and the Democrats are fighting to keep women in their place:
Maybe we’ve been had. I mean it. Maybe for the last X years we’ve been drinking kool-aid. Maybe, just maybe we’ve been listening to the wrong people. We all know the world is upside down. We’re living a Vonnegut novel that ends before it starts, where left is right and right is left. Up is down and down is up. A fantasy world where Democrats follow a Rovian Rasputin and Republicans follow a Truthsayer.
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We just had our first Tweety Awards over at Alegre’s and gave a deserving Maureen Dowd the honor of being the first.
Think for a minute about all our nominees and the nominees we’ll be tearing apart next week. Tweety, Markos, Dowd, Cafferty, Jeralyn, Sally Quinn, Andrew Sullivan, Campbell Brown. A few others were suggested but the point is. Find me a winger in the list. Find me a Fox news commentator. Find an O’Reilly, Gibson, Novak, Kristol or Will.
Sexism, Misogyny, whatever you call it seems to be coming from the left not the right.
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What I saw Wednesday night was a Republican party that does what successful republican business people do. They may fight change but know when to quit, accept change, embrace it then move on.
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We think Republican’s fight change and in moral and some policy ways they do, but sometime back a decade or so they saw strong women wanting to get involved. Being smart men they shut up, embraced the women and moved-on. On the other side, being a Dem all my life, the Democratic party is stifling. There is no room for people who don’t believe in Gay marriage or abortion. Either you tow the “progressive” line or get out.
The author is mistaken in that he thinks this is a recent change. As long as I have been a Republican the standard has been make it on your own initiative, not on a hand out, but that is beside the point. What's amazing is he has recognized the hypocrisy coming from the Democrat party.
More amazing - So do some of the commenters:
Comment by Uninformed Bowel Movement | 2008-09-09 20:41:33
Now I hope the Democrats will return to the center where the Republicans are heading. It will take a major defeat to happen but well worth it.
Comment by DirOfTheObv | 2008-09-09 20:43:25
The trouble is Democrats have become like drug dealers…they never tell ya this stuff will give you years of spiraling down in mental and physical health, ruin your job, ruin your marriage, kill your future….(As in welfare, higher taxes, bigger government programs.)
No they tell ya this is going to give you a blissful high and take you gently off to sleep.
Comment by Medusa | 2008-09-09 20:59:52
Great post NH, and welcome to NQ! I’ve been saying this for weeks now (maybe why I think your post is so good ;-) ) but without a historical perspective, it’s not obvious to people.
When i refused to kowtow to Bozo and the bots called me a Repub, at first I was insulted. Now, I realize I’m a centrist: not a neocon and not a neolib.
Bozo’s “hope and change” agenda makes clear that the so-called democrats don’t give a flying you-know-what for THE PEOPLE.
Comment by 12Speakout | 2008-09-10 00:04:04
Sexism, race-baiting, voter fraud, big media, anti-public finance, bullying,fear-mongering, McCarthyism?
Sounds like the Repu–I mean NEW DNC starring Obama, Pelosi, Dean and a host of Obamican thugs. Tag line=”Fall in line,OR ELSE.”
At this point I barely recognize the Democratic Party!
As a result, I truly appreciate this article. It validates my observations and adds to the relief I’ve felt since deciding I can help elect worthy down-ballot Dems without selling my soul to Obamacan dictators.
That's just a sampling of the comments. I know Johnson is hardly the person to go to for reliable reporting but this is still an interesting development.
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