Sunday, November 09, 2008

The Pundits on the Right

... are telling us that we're still a "center-right" country.

Except for our collective views on:

-- Health care
-- Reproductive choice
-- Energy independence
-- Climate change
-- Civil rights
-- Economic policy
-- Stem cell research
-- Educational policy
-- The war in Iraq
-- and our view that government should try to do more rather than less

What ever it is that they're smoking ... I wish I had some.

from Frank Rich in the New York Times:

"For eight years, we’ve been told by those in power that we are small, bigoted and stupid — easily divided and easily frightened. This was the toxic catechism of Bush-Rove politics. It was the soiled banner picked up by the sad McCain campaign, and it was often abetted by an amen corner in the dominant news media. We heard this slander of America so often that we all started to believe it, liberals most certainly included. If I had a dollar for every Democrat who told me there was no way that Americans would ever turn against the war in Iraq or definitively reject Bush governance or elect a black man named Barack Hussein Obama president, I could almost start to recoup my 401(k). Few wanted to take yes for an answer.

"So let’s be blunt. Almost every assumption about America that was taken as a given by our political culture on Tuesday morning was proved wrong by Tuesday night."

... the rest after the click.

Of course, some on the Right feel a need to respond:

"A family who had supported Barack Obama's presidential campaign emerged from their home in the northwestern New Jersey town of Hardwick Thursday morning to find the charred remnants of a 6-foot wooden cross on their front lawn."

... the rest after the click.

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