Yes, the problem is not that there is too much anger at Washington, it’s that there’s too little.

I am the same age as Israel and when I was coming of age, I used to wonder what it would be like to be a poor Christian in Russia and not be able to trust Pravda and Izvestsia.

And I used to wonder what sort of human being could possibly be a member of The Politburo and stand before the people and lie with such alacrity. Surely, those must have been men without souls.

Now I have some idea of what it was the poor Christians in Russia faced. They were being lied to by professionals; in the Press and in The Politburo.

I know what is going to happen in America. People are so pissed that Bat-Shit Crazy McCain is going to win, prolly 51-46 % (3% going to 3rd parties) and nothing will change.

The professional liars are very adept at splitting the country in two and keeping partisans on the right hating partisans on the left and vice versa.

And The Establishment always wins that contest. Gee, it is almost as if that is part of the plan to maintain control - ensure that only pols acceptable to the Establishment are capable of “winning.”

There is no substantial difference twixt Obama and McCain.

A vote for a Third Party candidate is the sole way those with a conscience and a soul can signal to the world that we do not reward with our votes those who lie to us and steal our liberties.

(As one who actually thought Newt Gingrich meant what he said, I remember, with shame, how I used to mock those in Russia who voted for their captors).

During my lifetime I saw the people in Russia cease to cooperate with their evil Empire. And I watched it fall without a single shot being fired. I know it can happen here. I know we can refuse to cooperate with our evil Empire.

And the revolution can began without firing one bullet. It can begin with a refusal to vote for those who lie to us.

I am up for Chuck this time around. And I will never again vote for The Stupid Party or The Evil Party.

“I for one, would rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Eagle Forum email list than by all the degreed contributing editors of The Weekly Standard.”

Hear! Hear! One does not have to be provincial to be anti-intellectual nor does being a
cosmo mean one enjoys the ivory tower. Take the New York Post for example or even the The Corner, which is filled with elitists and yet to whom upsets their prejudices. Many a backwoods man have sat by the fire after a hard days work on the farm or in the woods. It’s a hell of a lot better than Survivor.

Brooks at least is a cosmo and is damn proud of it whereas the Rich Lowerys of the world
want you to believe they wear bib overall and CAT hats to work and that they are “authentic.” No, they are
liars and knaves. Look at it this way, what would the staff of the National Review think
of Sarah Palin in 1968 compared to 2008?

Those of us reared on Chronicles (after our respective college educations of course) in provincial land find
ourselves appalled at the anti-intellectualism found conservative circles today. Austin
Bramwell summed up the group think and totalitarianism akin to Orwell’s 1984, a set of
ideas truly transformed into an ideology. These conservative circles live on both
coasts, work in think tanks based on both coasts. Raise money from fairly weathy people
and exist in an establishment universe. They set the tone for the debate and their minons
follow from pundits to talk radio hosts across the country.

They wish to identify with the “heartland” of the country in the same manner as some white
liberal teacher wish to be “down” with her inner city students. It’s all about insecurity.
Cultural sterotypes and reinforced and identity politics stressed in order to rally the
“masses” to one side or the other in order to gain or stay in power. So conserative elites
look down upon the Ivy League even thought they are mostly Ivy Leaguers. They attack
latte sippers even though they’re neighborhoods are filled with Starbucks. They rip Volvos while
driving Benzs. It’s no different than Leonard bernstein throwing parties for Black Panthers.
Isn’t it amazing that those conservatives intellectuals of the heartland
who are probably the most authentic given where they come from, what they do with themselves and what they choose to write about are considered to be
on the “fringe” and “marginal” while the populist wanna-bes of the Orange Line Mafia are
considered the true expression of the American Heartland? Talk about the world turned
upside down!

Then again the world’s been turned upside down since a scholar like Mel Bradford became
an outcast while a former public television producer like Jonah Goldberg became an
intellectual. And so long as conservatives continue to look in the directions of these
faux “people’s champions”, the vulgar, the mean-spirited, low intelligence,
egocentric and political junkies who now inhabit the cosmo conservative establishment
because they were somebody’s son, because they were a Congressional aide, because the interned at the White House because who they knew, because what YAF chapter they came out of or what law school they attended
(all which is the measure of a true elite) then conservatism will continue to slide into
irrelevency because of its dishonesty to itself.

At some point, the gold-plated populists become tarnished.

@I am not Spartacus

“I used to wonder what sort of human being could possibly be a member of The Politburo”

The same ethnicity as the Neocons with the same agenda as there communist forefathers a one world government.

You should research and check out how un-Russian the revolution was and the percentage of ethnic Russians in the Bolshevik movement.

If David Brooks is against Sarah that is wonderful. Harvard and Yale have been ruling us for the last 20 years. It’s time for Idaho state and the Naval Academy.

Dare are plenty ufv McCain yard signs and some Obama yard signs up here in da nordern end ufv dat angryman’s State.

You know, if it ain’t on da teevee here, people here don’t know it exists, eh.  So dey all tink McCain (or Obama) is gonna go get em in Washington.  Ha!

The first two thousand names on the Eagle Forum email list are made up of spine-less Huckabee-supporters.

Just saying…

What was interesting about this Joe Six Pack’s tirade is that he does not seem to think the Republican Party is at all responsible for the collective pooching we are currently experiencing. The most important achievement of this ZOMBIE GOP is that they pulled off their southern strategy and despite doing everything in their power to dump on the future of the so called ‘Base”.... while pandering to them relentlessly...the “Base” still supports them like a battered wife....asking for another shot to the head and maybe a poke in the eye.

Looking at the Democrats, I understand why this gentleman finds them impossible to support but the fact remains, the biggest contributor to this man’s frustrations are the mistakes and foolishness of the party he supports.