tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998745303301654834.post6237609119815663895..comments2023-08-11T12:15:27.337-04:00Comments on The Progressive Curmudgeon®: No Laughing Matter.Charley James - The Progressive Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584026728704830831noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998745303301654834.post-43742318051007491162008-09-14T14:28:00.000-04:002008-09-14T14:28:00.000-04:00This is so true. It's no use preaching to the conv...This is so true. It's no use preaching to the converted. The people who care, for example, that Palin is "absolutely not a feminist" were never going to vote for the GOP in the first place. The undecided will likely be swayed much more by Palin's spotty track record combined with McCain's age, making her ascension a definite probability; and by the breathakingly blatant flip-flop turning Palin into a media-darling-cum-glamour-puss mere months after skewering Obama for too much purported star quality... Who looks like Paris Hilton now??? And how quickly has the GOP demonstrated it'll change its stripes when they think it's convenient? There seems to be quite enough information *on* the record (paper trails, reports, voting record, budget figures) to make a case against Palin as someone who's made too many mistakes, in her short and relatively obscure tenure, to be trusted as President.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998745303301654834.post-20532296310772896202008-09-13T19:06:00.000-04:002008-09-13T19:06:00.000-04:00Warner sternly takes her fellow liberals to task f...Warner sternly takes her fellow liberals to task for not having enough "empathy" for the conservative point of view. Oh boo hoo! Her very column illustrates why the Democrats almost consistently lose presidential elections even as they prevail in locally-defined contests.<BR/><BR/>Enough hand wringing about our faults and why the other guys don't like us. LET em hate us. This is war. They are sharpening their knives (yeah, all those "nice" Republicans are writing checks for that!) and they are going after Obama and Biden with everything they've got. Meanwhile, liberals sit around and worry about how to "empathize" with soccer moms more. Are you kidding? I for one, am not worried about empathizing with the ignorant, the wilfully uninformed, and the blithely blind. I will fight like hell to have my country run by people who know what they're doing, not people who make great barbeque sauce. Put a sock in it, Judy!jgmurphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13514064230115926481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998745303301654834.post-52586744659685389942008-09-12T15:03:00.000-04:002008-09-12T15:03:00.000-04:00So we liberals have a hard time understanding the ...So we liberals have a hard time understanding the conservative point of view. We can't understand why voters believe in and trust candidates simply because they hold conservative views and refuse to look at the contradictions between their statements and their records.<BR/><BR/>We fail to understand why voters ignore the economy, the war, the deficit, torture and illegal spying on Americans and support candidates because they claim to be anti-abortion or pretend to share their values. <BR/><BR/>Haidt says "conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death. People vote Republican because Republicans offer "moral clarity"—a simple vision of good and evil that activates deep seated fears in much of the electorate."<BR/><BR/>I want to read his essay much more closely, but how can liberals in good conscience appeal to such voters? Should we even try? Won't any attempt we make to appeal to them seem hollow and phony?Charles Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975241234146573609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3998745303301654834.post-81381350201621238532008-09-12T12:53:00.000-04:002008-09-12T12:53:00.000-04:00I do think Obama understands this stuff but the re...I do think Obama understands this stuff but the republican press and spin doctors are unbelievably sinister in their spin. That's what frightens me and disappoints me. Look at the low sleazy advertising taking the airwaves now. They stoop so low, set the bar so low, and pander so low that anyone can climb aboard. Until the entire Democratic party recognizes this we're sunk. I can't help but wonder what would have happened had Hillary been nominated. Palin is as polarizing as Hillary is, just in a different way.Lenorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10673231105101111145noreply@blogger.com