Quote of the Day
In Wasilla, a comparable home would be more horizontally oriented, clad in aluminum, and perched on wheels and/or cinder blocks. But with the de rigeur meth lab, it would be a more profitable investment than this place. — by SnarkSlope in House of the Day: 47 Sidney Place
In Wasilla, a comparable home would be more horizontally oriented, clad in aluminum, and perched on wheels and/or cinder blocks. But with the de rigeur meth lab, it would be a more profitable investment than this place.
— by SnarkSlope in House of the Day: 47 Sidney Place
FACTS…over the past 50 years, since 1958 there have been 6 republican administrations and 4 democrat ones.
I guess ALL of the problems were the result of the republicans then.
Pull head out of sand or wherever it is.
Yeah, I asked “do you own a TV”.
Because that’s where the Republican’s campaign ads are airing. Since I WAS talking about political attacks. As in campaign ads.
How can you not figure out what I was talking about? Guess I had to spell it out. Slowly.
Well okay, stay in denial. But know this, I’m speaking from first-hand knowledge.
My family owns banks in small, rural Midwestern towns and have for nearly 50 years. We saw the changes occur over the decades. Foreclosed on farms. We know everything about the economy in these places, the lifestyles, and even what each person has in their bank accounts. Lots of people on welfare. Huge use of alcohol and drugs. Very high divorce rate. FACTS.
And one more thing. Your question “Don’t you own a TV?” tells me how you formulate your “world view.”
WOW, so much crap being spewed here today. I’m glad you’ve figured it all out traditionalmod. What a narrow-minded view. But I guess when you know you are correct then you know you are correct.
Polemicist–a little of the old “Alex P. Keaton” in you, eh?
You are lecturing a Liberal about being tolerant?? You proved everything I said about hypocritical.
Republicans have fought nasty and dirty a long long long time historically. As in like killing fellow Americans they disagreed with.
Republicans are simply in denial with all their nostalgia and marketing of Palin & small town life. I grew up in the rural Midwest, my mother is from the rural South where I spent a lot of time. I loved it then. But it’s so different now. There have been a lot of changes since farming and manufacturing jobs have departed. Economic struggles, huge addiction problems, highest rates of divorce. The few smart kids leave for college and instead of returning like past generations would do, they go to the cities. Because that’s where the jobs are.
The Republicans and their policies did this to rural America starting in the 80’s with Reagan and now they want to paint a false, rosy picture of small town life and use it to market their candidates. It’s surreal.
Traditionalmod:
“Insult our very core values as human beings”? You give ME a break!
These are the kinds of statements that lead to civil war. If you hate these people so much, and you find them so offensive – how can you possibly consider them brothers? Especially when these are the people who put food on your table, I think you’ll come to regret this kind of vitriol in the future. And for the record, having grown up in Park Slope the son of some crazed liberal parents, this kind of nonsense is what turned me away from their radical ideology.
I wouldn’t assume the Sixty is Republican. And he/she raises some interesting issues regarding the the election process and peoples motivations. Sixty is right that it’s troubling when people can’t disagree rationally, but Republicans (and even small-town America to some degree) are certainly expert as demeaning people who are different from them. Again, according to Palin, we are “haters.” There is a real selfishness and divisiveness to this approach, and is NOT for the greater good. Unfortunately, this is what the uniformed voter falls for.