Obama and Reagan Democrat Types
01 April 2008 7:00 am by Taylor Marsh
It seems for some elite Democrats, bowling is
an activity, but not a sport, that anyone can master on the moment, the Ozarks is for the inbred, and the Mississippi River can only be
appreciated by hicks. As for bowling, I was taught by the best. Dick Weber Lanes
was close to my house in St. Louis where I was in a league as a kid. Today,
however, the disdain and ignorance in elite Democratic circles is so completely out
of control that people don’t understand what these types of activities mean
to some people. It has manifested in opinions like the one below that appeared in early March, which
is particularly appropriate today, especially with one poll showing results that Obama is allegedly a tougher opponent for John McCain than Hillary Clinton. Democrats also thought Reagan would be easy to beat. We all know how that worked out. Even today, some just don’t get it:
… .. I don’t doubt that there is a probably an equally sizable portion
of Obama voters who are supporting him because they can’t vote for the “overly
ambitious,” “calculating,” “cold,” and whatever other
conservative adjectives have long been used to cover up blatant sexism toward
Hillary Clinton. Still, that doesn’t make me feel any better that
after all this time we are still slogging through the wake of Reagan Dems
who are basically conservatives who bought into the backlash against the civil
rights movement and moved the country to the right as a result. Obama
is getting crushed among these voters, as exit polls, the above chart …
And basically, he is getting crushed among these voters because he is an African-American.
… ..
Ah yes, another progressive standing on high judging Reagan Democrat types
as racist, and Bowers is smart. His analysis just isn’t any good, which was
cemented when he wrote “Obama
Campaign Post-Mortem” back in October. The reasoning he lays
out is incomprehensible, though nothing is as bad as equating Reagan Dems as
basically racist.
This lie permeates the Democratic primary contest, but not because of Reagan
Democrat types, I assure you.
Never mind that the more progressive candidate in the race actually wants universal
health care, a topic on which Elizabeth Edwards agrees, while the Democrat Clinton’s
running against is baiting and switching on many issues, with Obama thinking
lunch bucket Democrats are too dumb to know the difference.
Just maybe people know when they’re being talked down to and they don’t like
it. Maybe they can smell a con a mile away. Like when you say you weren’t aware
of the anti-American hate being spewed at your own church, then you admit you
did hear it.
To put it bluntly, what pompous, elitist progressives and Obama supporters
really don’t get is that “Reagan Democrats” aren’t going away and
won’t soon be an extinct group. They’re an American mind set. They don’t die
away. They are continually replaced with new Americans of a different generation
who feel the same way. People who are repelled by anti-American hate speech, especially when it goes as far as to brand this country the “U.S. of KKK of A.” Whether they are called “Reagan Democrats”
in the future won’t matter, because this type of American is sewn into the fabric
of our country. You know, those men and women who are union, non-union too,
like my husband; hard working stiffs who don’t think it’s odd to own a gun,
a truck, ride mountain bikes, listen to NPR and XM, but drink wine, maybe Scotch,
and love jazz, blues, you know, but also who’d walk out of a church if they heard a minister preaching hatred. They don’t in any way resemble some progressive
stereotype that dumbs everything down to racism, or some knee jerk conservative
label meant as a slur, while couching their own sexism that’s aimed at a class
of Americans who have been the heart and soul of the Democratic party long before
progressives started typing on keyboards.
Obama isn’t getting crushed by lunch bucket Reagan Democrat types
because he’s an African American. It’s because these Democrats are smart enough
to know that Obama hasn’t figured out what he’s going to do for us,
because he’s too busy figuring out how to make a deal with them. You
know, the Republicans. He’s evidently looked into their eyes and seen their
soul, and we know he’ll likely sell us out to get their approval. All
under the mantle that he’s not an ideologue.
We know what this all means. He’ll make a deal with anyone, which means blue
collar America will take it in the wallet or the overtime. And progressive elites have the gall to call lunch bucket Democrats out, then blame it on racism?
But most of all, Reagan Democrat types are national security Americans
first. But I’ve quit expecting elite progressives to understand this point,
which has nothing to do with the color of anyone’s skin, because I assure you
many Reagan Democrats would have voted for Colin Powell in a heart beat, once
upon a time. Oh, now I’ve done it! Admitted that secret sin, even though the
hope long ago died one bleak day at the United Nations, of all places.
It also takes more than words to convince us:
Barack Obama promised that his foreign policy would be a return to what he says was the realist approach practiced by George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. “My foreign policy is actually a return to the traditional realistic policy of George Bush’s father, of John F. Kennedy, of in some ways Ronald Reagan,” he said Friday. … ..
That’s particularly true when the actions and evidence of demonstrated toughness are missing.
Casting aspersions on blue collar men and women who are cautious on national
security by calling them racist, especially when it’s the progressives stuck
neck deep in 1950s sexism, is why the Democratic party keeps losing presidential
elections.
Universal health care isn’t conservative or racist. Lunch bucket, Reagan Democrat
types want it.
Middle class tax breaks are not conservative or racist. Lunch bucket, Reagan
Democrat types want those too.
Military redeployment and mission refocusing is not conservative or racist
either. We just want it done correctly so the wingnuts don’t get a chance to
hang the disaster they created around our Democratic necks like the Republicans
did with Vietnam. Caution seems worthwhile given the mess. That’s not conservative
or racist, it’s wise.
Blaming Reagan Democrat types is a lazy person’s argument, an elitist
argument proven out through disrespect thrown at a class of people using a slur.
In 1980, Reagan Democrats came into being because of national security. The
pictures from Iran drove us nuts. Desert One sealed the deal. Oil didn’t help. You try standing
in gas lines in New York City every other Thursday (or whatever it was), depending
on your license plate number, and see how you like it.
Many of us weren’t conservative (I surely wasn’t) and certainly weren’t racist, but we didn’t
like the image America had back then and went towards someone we thought could
restore it, while sending a message to the Democratic party, which by the way they didn’t get. Lunch bucket, Reagan
Democrat types don’t like what’s happening today either, so McCain doesn’t
look so good because he’s a third term for Bush, and Obama looks completely unprepared, with the only person looking half way
credible is the middle American woman who gave up everything to marry an Arkansas
man who was the biggest long shot in the world, but through grit made it all the way to the White House, then to millionaire status and beyond, all the while fending off the biggest right-wing attack machine ever amassed. Republicans promise the dream. Bill Clinton lassoed it, and the elite Obama
Democrats look down at him for how he did it, though he made the economy work better for working class men and women than any Democrat in modern history.
There will always be Reagan Democrat types as long as there is America.
To win the general election Democrats have got to win a good majority of them,
too. There are two candidates right now and one can, while the other one can’t,
at least not right now. Bowling 37 doesn’t help. You know why? It’s really hard
to bowl a 37. I know, this may seem like a cheap shop, but you try it. I bet
your teenage daughter can do better without even breaking a nail. But what’s worse is that Obama figured, how hard can it be? I’m an athlete, and after all, it’s only bowling.
That’s revealing.
But there’s
something more dangerous at the heart of it. It’s reminiscent of the Democratic party,
circa 1979, and it scares some lunch bucket, Reagan Democrat types
to death. It’s not Dukakis in a tank, but, well, a man’s got to know his limitations. I’m serious.
