…The Move-On, Talk-Left, Daily Kos democrats are a tiny minority of the country and will never amount to much other than gadflies in the side of the Body Politic. It's the reflexive position of teenagers and college kids without jobs, not married, no kids, and no houses. Most outgrow it….
I’m going to break one of my message board rules here and speak a little personally:
I’m approaching 50, am an executive with a publicly-traded company that makes money and pays dividends, have been married for 20 years to one woman, never been unfaithful, have 3 kids and a mortgage. I read Kos.
My Chief Executive Officer, has been married for 20 years to one woman, has 3 kids and a mortgage. He reads Kos.
One of our Board Members (on a very small board), over 70 years old, retired from a luminous career reads Kos.
A CEO at a former employer, founding partner of what was formerly one of the whitest of white shoes DC law firms, now in his 70s, reads Kos.
One of my neighbors, a mid level manager for the Republican National Committee, late a night, over a beer, has told me he has started to peruse the ‘left-blogosphere’ I can only assume to his great unease with the Country’s direction.
Admittedly, all anecdotal. Certainly I know many extremely conservative people, but the moderates and the libruls are far more numerous than suggested.
In my experience, business people like the access and the benefits derived from our Republican controlled government, but they have no illusions about it. On one of the more imfamous SI penny stock threads it was once said about the Company’s CEO that one ...
“wouldn’t hire him to run a lemonade stand.”
Well, most senior business people if asked in a private conversation whether they’d hire President Bush or any of the Republican Leadership to ‘run a lemonade stand’ would probably give you a response - in my experience - something like this:
Liberal: “Heck no!”
Moderate: After some thought, …. “No.”
Conservative: silence … no response.
Don’t even bother to ask them if they’d 'realy' have them as an employee.
On 9/11 after getting my staff out of the building and on their way home, I went up to the roof patio of what was then my office, 5 blocks from the White House, and watched the black smoke from the Pentagon totally obscure the southern view. I or people in my office knew probably half a dozen people from Cantor Fitzgerald who died in the WTC. I watched the WTC be built as a kid. My brother – far more successful than I - used to work there and was only blocks away that day. (and boy is he conservative).
One of the most vile insults ever hurled at the citizens of the Country is the statement that if one disagrees with the President, they are a traitor, or a hater, or a fool, or a librul.
Perhaps the Democrats have no leader and no answers but – in my opinion – I’d prefer gridlock to unchecked stupidity, demagoguery and greed.
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