Just can't get on with your hateful life, can you Billy Boy? This is your forum now, all Clinton hatred, all the time. Enjoy! Only 20 months to convince the 2/3 that we're stupid, and you're not!
Another little press clip for you and your self righteous brethren. I know, more media spin, whatever. NYT, 2/21/99.
NASHUA, N.H. -- Alarmed, heartsick and still baffled over President Clinton's acquittal by the Senate, some of his most ardent detractors have come to an extraordinary conclusion, one that may carry grim implications for the conservative movement. They blame not themselves for mishandling the whole sorry episode but a public whose moral standards have collapsed.
Their message is audacious, perhaps even arrogant: Americans just don't get it. Why can't they see we were right?
In the most striking example, Paul Weyrich, an unflinching moral crusader for three decades, embarked last week on a rampage against society rather than against Clinton. The man who suggested to the Rev. Jerry Falwell that he name his organization the Moral Majority now contends that the name is an oxymoron.
"I no longer believe that there is a moral majority," Weyrich wrote in a letter to hundreds of thousands of supporters of his organization, the Free Congress Foundation. "I do not believe that a majority of Americans actually shares our values."
Taking his fury a step further, Weyrich said that while he was "not suggesting that we all become Amish or move to Idaho," he believes that "we have to look at what we can do to separate ourselves from this hostile culture."
He asked: "What steps can we take to make sure that we and our children are not infected? We need some sort of quarantine."
A quarantine would be fine with me, I greatly regret my long dialog with you and the "hateful life" crowd here. You can have this "hateful life" forum, I'm happy to see you guys bleat on forever.
Weyrich said in an interview that he was not particularly concerned that conservatives might alienate voters, because he viewed his causes as larger than partisan politics. "I've never been one who is very active in the party to begin with," he said. "It hasn't been my forte. I will be a good citizen and participate appropriately. But I've never been consumed with the party."
You've never been consumed by the party either, eh Bill? If the Republican party has to die to get Clinton the Antichrist, who cares? I got to agree with you on that one, though I doubt they'll get Clinton even then.
Indeed, Weyrich does not have to worry about his own electoral fate. But perhaps the bashers of Joe Citizen who are still committed Republicans can take solace in the example of at least one successful politician who found that loathing voters is not political suicide: Sen. Stephen Young, D-Ohio, who served from 1959 to 1971. In vituperative letters, he traded indignities with constituents and interest groups.
Young wrote one constituent, "Buster, your insults show that you are the east end of a horse going west." He called another constituent "lower than a snake's tail in a wagon rut." He exploded at still another, calling him a "low-down skunk."
Young was re-elected in 1964, the beneficiary of the landslide for President Lyndon B. Johnson.
A hero to all the moral reformationists here, I'm sure. |
