From Stephen Moore...
<<Don't be fooled by the spinmeisters. These people are not middle America. When you go into the bakeries, you can actually purchase wedding cakes with two brides on the top. A baker tells me even straight couples are purchasing these ultra-chic wedding cakes, as a sign of solidarity. The best-selling t-shirt shows George Washington standing aside George W. Bush. Under Washington the caption reads: "Could not tell a lie." Under Bush the caption: "Could not tell the truth." Every third car has a bumper sticker screaming: "RE-DEFEAT BUSH IN 2004." And then, of course, there are the many forms of advocacy for regime change in America. Leftist protesters give out placards reading: "George Bush is a lying sack of s%$@." Gee, I remember when liberals said hate wasn't a family value.
It seems every person I have met here is either a trial lawyer (the Edwards Brigade), a school teacher (about one third of the delegates are traditionally NEA members), a politician, a discontented student whining about cuts in school aid, or a lobbyist for a Washington-based tax-eating organization. These folks have as much interest in tax cuts as Linda Ronstadt has in lo-cal desserts. The common refrain from all of them is: more, more, more. More school funding, more child care, more taxes on the rich, more peanuts served on airlines, more drive-by abortions, more bilingual education, more pennants for the Red Sox (they are after all entitled, are they not?), more drivers licenses for illegal aliens.>> |
