Comes McPhillips:
What Victor Davis Hanson says about David Letterman et al.
Yeah, Letterman, somewhere along the line, grew increasingly unhinged off the political side of his stale late-night mess. I’m not a Palin fan (liked her initially, respect many of her views, but simply cannot tolerate the rambling double-talk), but the attacks on her are so vicious that it reminds me of the everpresent heavies in old westerns, the slimey bad guys with tobacco juice sliding down the sides of their mouths, who were always ready to shoot a young earnest rancher for one reason or another.
Well, let’s face it, Martin, the description you give pretty much describes the reaction of Democrats to about anyone who dares to poke their head up out of the sand, to the right of where Fidel Castro stands. You and I have both seen it for far too many years.
And as for Letterman, look; he’s doing what entertainers do… he’s playing to his audience. He knows on what side of the political isle his bread is greased. I tend to agree with Billy’s take on that part of all of this. He’s being a leftist nutter because the majority of the people who are his followers are leftist nutters, as well. That’s how he makes money. In that regard, Letterman is much the same as Keith Olberman. Both hacks.
Sarah Palin
I must say, I don’t share Billy’s distaste for Palin, suspecting that a lot of the nonsense you’re talking about can be directly attributable to the besotted McCain campaign. Remember, she was chosen to push the balance of the ticket right to counter McCain’s left-leaning, and backfired on McCain because her conservatism was far more popular.
My read is that while she has some issues one could call minor… (particularly as compared to the current White House occupant and most of Congress) her politics on the whole are a lot closer to the politics of most Americans than the majority of the current GOP leadership.
Hence their anti-grassroots reactions from the GOP leadership directed at her, and the reax of the left, inclduing Letterman. They both see her as a real threat for the same reason; She’s a conservative and conservatism is far more popular than they are.
Will she in fact be in the lead come 2012? I figure that depends on our coming up with someone more consistantly conservative than she. Who will that be? It’ll be the one who gives up the nonsensical notion that being “Democrat light ” is “good”, and acts accordingly. At the moment, for good or ill, the one individual doing that is Sarah Palin.
June 13th, 2009 at 21:11
Forget, please, “conservatism.” It has been, operationally, de facto, Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:
“[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.”
Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).
John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
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PS – And “Mr. Worldly Wiseman†Rush Limbaugh never made a bigger ass of himself than at CPAC where he told that blasphemous “joke†about himself and God.
June 14th, 2009 at 11:46
Letterman is a deranged slob- and his stale schtick’s about as funny as a train wreck. If Sarah Palin is SO silly and irrelevant, why the obsession? Clearly the Left noted her appeal, and are out to eliminate the threat- it’s not like it’s not obvious. And she’s been highly successful in life while ignoring the left-wing feminist model… this helps to explain the extra dose of venom in the attacks. Go get em, Sarah- and don’t mind the press, nobody will be listening to them anymore after the pending Obamamania implosion- http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com