Open Memo to Conservatives: Don’t Hate the Playah
O.K. I’m sorry. I should have said a COMMUNIST, LIBERAL LEFT WING, SOL
LOWINSKI(?) LOVING Chicago politician. Who wants to take money from the
people who worked hard and smart, and give it to those who stay home and
collect my money to buy crack, have babies, then go to jail where I can
STILL support the[m].
Angry email sent by a conservative post-election
Dear Conservatives
In the wake of your loss, I’ve have been receiving a lot of emails like this that sound as if you’re getting into the sackcloth-and-ashes/rending-the-garments stage of your grief. And while I thoroughly understand the pain you’re going through right now, you are blaming the wrong people. As you flail about looking for the culprit, some of your issues need to be addressed permanently and put to bed for good.
1. What’s wrong with being liberal or left-wing? I’m both of those things, and I’m a very good American. So are my parents, who made sure I was a Boy Scout (I can still recite the Oath and Law from memory). I think they raised me right. I volunteer in my community, and work in human services, helping people develop the skills they need to succeed in America, pull their own weight, and achieve self-sufficiency. I don’t want to take anyone’s money and give it to crackheads: I’d rather reinvest my taxes into my country so people can get jobs, so they have dignity and don’t turn to drugs to begin with. As for having babies, I thought the conservative movement was all about having babies: isn’t that what pro-life is about? Or is the conservative movement against having sex at all?
Everyone tells me how awful it is to be liberal, but no one has ever told me WHY. It’s like “socialist”, a word that’s been abused for so long it doesn’t even have any meaning. I don’t know any liberals who hate their country, and it’s tiresome and offensive to hear you all pretend that we’re anything less than first-class Americans: everyone in my family works hard and believes in America. The way I see it, Americans should be glad we have two parties. In fact, I wish we had more than two (and given the failure of the Republicans to deliver a victory, I suspect you are as well). I don’t know about you, but North Korea doesn’t strike me as paradise.
2. Furthermore, according to the election, more than 52% of Americans voted for the communist liberal left wing, etc., and not just for president either: the democrats made HUGE gains. Virginia republican Rep. Davis says that the GOP is now a “rural, white, regional party”.
And you can’t say the voters elected Obama by accident: for the past two years, the republicans, conservatives, and talk radio took every opportunity to point out that Obama’s “the most liberal senator”, “a marxist”, “a radical leftist who associates with terrorists”. McCain was saying things like that to the bitter end. I listen to Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Hannity on my drive to work (forgive me Ed). Everyone heard those charges. So how come he did so well? His margin was way wider than Bush’s in 2004.
I think when you heard:
Who wants to take money from the people who worked hard and smart, and give it to those who stay home and collect my money to buy crack, have babies, then go to jail where I can STILL support them
…a lot of other people heard “a tax break for me? YAY!!!” and “he’ll bring my kid home from Iraq? Double-YAY!!!”
3. Obama had the support of plenty of conservatives: you can’t say Chuck Hagel’s not conservative. Or Colin Powell. Or Ken Adelman. or Paul O’Neill. or Chris Buckley. I don’t think any of those guys are easily fooled, and I don’t think they’re COMMUNIST, LIBERAL LEFT WING, SOL LOWINSKI(?) LOVING either. Who is Sol Lowinksy anyway? I tried to google him but all I got were these crazy fringe sites my computer at work is firewalled from. Who is Sol Lewinsky and what did he do that was so bad? Someone’s gotta clue me in on this one.
In any event, it’s hard to believe that Obama’s a “radical leftist” or whatever, when so many conservatives and republicans are openly supporting him.
4. What I do know is that if I was a conservative republican, I wouldn’t be mad at Obama for winning. Instead, I’d be FURIOUS at McCain and the GOP for LOSING, and then blaming that poor Palin woman for his bad decisions. How totally classless: it is hardly Palin’s fault that McCain’s team didn’t properly vet her.
And where was their message? For that matter WHAT was their message? All they seemed to talk about was what a dick Obama is, but they never really articulated a vision that someone could get behind. Surprisingly, “You’re not a real American” is not a winning campaign slogan.
Not helpful.
Don’t hate Obama and the Dems for winning: hate McCain and the GOP for completely dropping the ball. The GOP was looking at a permanent majority when they won in 2004. How do you lose that dominance just two years later? How do you totally fail to make a comeback two years after that? By fucking up spectacularly, that’s how: Iraq; Katrina; the housing collapse; the Bankruptcy bill; the stock market collapse; the bailout. So blame those guys, not Obama. The fact is if the GOP ran a good game, the black liberal democrat named Barack Hussein Obama would probably have been crushed.
If I was a republican right now, I would be making a list and checking it twice. i would be rooting out the deadwood and finding primary challengers for all of the weak/moderate republicans, and replace them with hardcore conservatives that reflect the base of the party. That’s part of the problem right there actually: too many republicans got used to having wide margins of victory, and just didn’t come prepared to play ball.
In fact, I’d primary McCain himself, specifically for losing the election. If I could convince Palin to move to Arizona to challenge him, I would (if I was a republican, that is).
You want real firebreathers of conviction, people who aren’t afraid to say “no abortions in no circumstances EVER,” “teach intelligent design”, “amend the constitution to ban gay marriage”, and the kind of stuff that gets people energized. I would be making sure my party turned hard right, even more right than it is now. And I’d run Palin again, but this time as the top of the ticket. Or maybe put her in charge of the RNC. Get rid of the moderates and replace them with people who really walk the walk, so voters will know exactly what the GOP stands for. Blurring the differences never works for democrats and as the election shows, it doesn’t work too well for the GOP.
That’s my advice. Don’t get mad, get even. Tacking even harder right is the best way for the GOP and the conservatives to do that.
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