Bob Wire Has a Point (It's Under His Cowboy Hat)
Young Republican, I Pity Your Daughter
By Bob Wire, 9-21-08
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I stood on someone’s lawn on University Avenue Saturday morning, watching the UM Homecoming parade shuffle by. (Side note: After you’ve been watching a parade for a few minutes, take a look at the other side of the street during a lull; everything will look like it’s moving back the other way.) A ragged group of Republicans supporting gubernatorial candidate Roy Brown rounded the corner from Higgins. They gamely tried to engage an obviously Democrat-heavy crowd by chanting, waving, and tossing Lexus key fobs to the kids. The response was predictably lukewarm, but I didn’t hear any catcalls or snide comments.
A few minutes later, the Democrats’ float lumbered by, and the crowd came alive, exhorting their candidates and cheering on the marching supporters. To my right stood a young guy in his mid-twenties, blond hair slicked back in the Gordon Gekko style from “Wall Street.” Seriously. He held an infant in his arms.
“Don’t worry, honey,” he said, covering the baby’s eyes. “The scary people will be gone pretty soon.” He said this loud enough to make it obvious that it was for the benefit of those in the immediate vicinity, not his daughter. His female companion, looking vaguely uncomfortable, simply nodded in agreement.
I peered at this young jackass in disbelief, and felt a pang of sympathy for his helpless daughter. It’s hard to imagine anyone more clueless and offensive than a braggadocio Young Republican. My image of the Republican core is that of a bunch of balding, fat, cigar-chewing old white guys working feverishly to keep the government from taking any more of their hard-inherited money. They spout hoary old clichés like how Democrats want the government to take care of them and solve all their problems. People should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, they say, without having to ask Uncle Sam for help. What they fail to mention, though, is how they enjoy all the benefits of municipal infrastructure and public programs, yet they’re desperate to avoid paying their share of taxes for it.
Like I’ve said before, the polarization of the two-party system has boiled down to a simple observation: Democrats care about people, Republicans care about money. The hair-gelled dandy watching the parade with his daughter seemed to have bought into the shallow, erroneous belief that if you want to live like a Republican, you should vote Republican. It repulsed me to think that someone so young was ready to carry on the selfish, greedy policies of this morally corrupt party and pass them along to his innocent daughter.
Dude, I wanted to say, you look like a reasonably intelligent person. Can you do simple math? Can you read a paper? If you can, there’s no way in hell you should think electing more Republicans is a good idea. Why don’t you loosen your grip on your money-grubbing ideology long enough to admit the truth: our fine country is rotting from the top down. Financial institutions are collapsing like a house of cards. Your people are demanding deregulation out one side of their mouth, and begging for a $700 billion federal bailout out the other. Where are your bootstraps now, Wall Street?
You’d better wise up, asshole, because it’s your daughter who’s going to be footing the bill.
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If it was just rich fat guys voting Republican there wouldn't be enough votes to get any Republicans elected, it takes blue collar people like myself that have noticed that Washington is terrible with money and every program that they start costs much more than they tell you it will, FDR told us that his BETA version of SSI wasn’t sustainable, yet the Democrats that followed FDR won’t let Republicans fix it.
You are right, Bill Clinton meant well and cared about people when he and secretary of treasury, Robert Rubin, lowered the standards for FHA and Fannie Mae, the Clinton administration put many minorities and credit unworthy in homes for a little while but now they are again out of their homes and our economy is in trouble because of it.
Bob, you told us your stereotype Republican, well my stereotype Democrat is someone that thinks with their heart instead of the brain. Democrats never look at – THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES - before they inflict their expensive cure on us.
That's about the only option left for his daughter's future -- and when the real reality sets in, she had no future at all.
Facts will never get through to this guy because his politics and his religion are one in the same. He has to deny the numbers because to do otherwise is to deny his God.
Fiscal conservatives are jumping ship along with a lot of libertarian Republicans, and it's getting to be that all that's left in the party are wild-eyed, Palin-loving Rapture fanatics.
At any rate, when that little girl watching the parade gets a bit older, she'd be better off disregarding any party affiliation and working to throw all the bums out and start over. We need to demand accountability and fiscal responsibility from our politicians, and those are things which are harder and harder to get the longer they stay in office. I want a government that protects the least fortunate as much as it can, stays out of the way of those able to provide for themselves as much as is fair, and above all doesn't purchase short-term favor for itself at the expense of future generations. I'm not sure how we achieve that, but it sure ain't by ignoring half the problem.
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Like I’ve said before, the polarization of the two-party system has boiled down to a simple observation: Democrats care about people, Republicans care about money.
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Now thats a generlizn like a bigot from the other side of yourz spektrum there Bobby.
Great wurk way 2 make me chukle.
Nevur seen one of them Obamamainiacs ever be obsessed with image , money or talking leftist superiority loudly in public.
Nope I've never seen or heard of such a thing in MZLA or BZX.
Driving nice cars, living in places way too big for them, obsessed with themselves. Image and ego is what prevails.
No New Wester has ever been guilty of self asorbtion.
But enough is enough. I've said what I needed to say, and there will be no shortage lib-sniping and neo-con baiting in the media right up to election day, and beyond.
From now on I'll stop wasting my energy adding to the bonfire of negativity. After all, isn't it my job to distract you from all this bullshit?
I long for the days when the "good old boys" like Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen were in control and could get things done through courteous negotiation and compromise. Smoke filled rooms actually work. And your quality of crook then was actually a little better than the crooks running things today.
But I digress. Back to the comparison between GOP and Dems, I've always observed that we can do some things better together than we can separately. I've been proved correct by the disastrous failures of privatization and deregulation across the board. We need to get the profit motive out of essential basics like health care. But most of all, we need to start from scratch and learn how to compromise again. Could one of you New Age people channel Mike Mansfield, please?
Yet all of our wrangling is prefaced upon those symbols...