Republicans
From Gore Derangement Syndrome:
Today, being a good Republican means believing that taxes should always be cut, never raised. It also means believing that we should bomb and bully foreigners, not negotiate with them.
While I agree wholeheartedly with most of this Op-ed, I just don’t think this statement is valid. Granted, the sentiment is there. From the news, the speeches, you do get the sense that the Party is in this direction and that the conservative populus is. But would an individual Republican politician really feel this way? But then where’s the disconnect. Maybe I should ask a Republican politician. Or have someone ask for me.In addition, the idea of a smaller government and fiscal responsibility in no ways rationally leads to such a conclusion nor situation. Maybe Lakoff has the answer.
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October 16th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
My father is very Republican— he can’t understand where my “liberal-ness” came from— but he recognizes that that policy is completely illegitimate and also a very bad plan. I don’t know if anyone in Washington would have the guts to say the same thing.
As correct as some of the things this man is saying may be— and many of them, I imagine, are— I can’t feel that crying about how the Republicans don’t respect Gore, wah wah wah, all of them are big old meanies with no common sense, wah, is particularly constructive either. (Though as an Op-Ed columnist, maybe that’s what he ought to be doing…?)
For the record, I feel like giving the Nobel Prize to Gore is a little political and a little hypey, although the fact that he’s sharing it helps a little. Maybe the committee thought giving it to him would draw proper attention to the matter…?