Comments on: Liberal tunnel vision: why vote for Romney?

By: newton

newton — Tue, 29 May 2012 05:07:32 +0000

“Just the sound of his voice causes my juices to rise in a very Incredible Hulk sort of way. I don’t want to HATE him, but there it is.”

I hear ya.

Nowadays, the mention of that name has become like that of a particularly offensive cuss word: a big no-no in our household. My husband realized that I became a nasty b!%@# the moment he or my (then-toddler) daughter mentioned his name, and that was when I was still pregnant with her little sibling. She started to have this bad habit of doing so to make me angry so she could have a good laugh, but we stopped that very quickly.

So, to make sure she never does that again, and to make sure I don’t go nuts, he usually is mentioned as “The One” or “He Who Must Not Be Named,” but never by his real name, and not in front of the kids. Because kids can be a bit gossipers and tell others, particularly their teachers…

One afternoon, I was listening to Rush inside my minivan after I picked up my daughter from preschool. After a few minutes, she asked me, “Mommy, does ‘Obama’ mean ‘stupid’?

I bit my tongue…

Needless to say, now I only listen to Rush on my iPhone, with headphones, on iHeartRadio.

Of course, I already voted in the TX primary, for Romney. Call me a “h8er” or a “Racist!” all you want, but I’d rather have a Mormon President ten thousand times four years than the glittering jewel of total incompetence occupying the WH today.

By: bof

bof — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:28:37 +0000

You don’t mean David Maraniss’s “autobiography”, do you? You mean his biography of Barack Obama.

By: lilitum

lilitum — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:00:32 +0000

I would think it’s hard to believe that someone would vote for Romney because he is incredibly bland and insincere, seems infinitely distanced from anyone outside his surroundings, and you can never know what his position on any given ssue at any given moment?

By: JuliB

JuliB — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:04:33 +0000

In an article in USA Today earlier this week (free at the hotel, I would never pay for it), they gave the reactions of several black Christian pastors to the gay marriage decision. All but one were soft on President Obama.

What it would take for any of them (except the one) to come out against him?

I’ve flirted with ODS and O-hate (and in totally non-racial sense), but I’ve managed to reach down into my deepest Christian beliefs to avoid anything other than flashes. My traddy-ish Catholic belief is that the evil one has completely deceived Obama, and I pray that he opens his heart to the Light of God. I have nothing else.

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:38:25 +0000

Really like kolnai’s comment from 5pm 5/16, esp: ‘Likewise, crazed utopianism is called “optimism,” as if pining for the impossible were commendable on its merits as a sheer feeling of love for the perfect.’

It’s also called “idealism,” a word often used about the ’60s radicals. I was there and “crazed utopianism” is a much more accurate term.

About the Kael quote: I do agree that the way this is normally misquoted makes her sound more insular and less self-aware than she deserved. However, the “I can feel them” part suggests the sort of shuddering paranoia that liberals often seem to indulge in.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:01:12 +0000

ref Kael and critiquing films as “films”.
Really want to find it. An earlier feminist, also a critic, reviewed “Taming of The Shrew”–the play, not a performance–with great sympathy for the heroine, approving her actions and roles and even her ultimate decisions.
Not at all what feminists are supposed to want, but there appear to be a few who can separate at least some of their professional life from their ideology.
Can’t think of her name, dammit.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:46:51 +0000

rachel: and remember, Sarah Palin isn't a woman.

By: Parker

Parker — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:35:52 +0000

“Just this morning in our local rag there were a coupla letters to the editor that railed against those who “hate” Obama because of his skin color. If you believe Obama is doing a dandy job of running the country then you wonder why anyone would vote against him unless it was because of his blackness?”

The other side of the coin is that the editor believes that because BHO is ‘black’ and has a (D) after his name he must be doing a dandy job.

By: rachel

rachel — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:03:37 +0000

Lisa M & neo,

That reminds me of a poster or ad I saw during 2008 election season, something like:

McCain/Palin is not a woman’s choice.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:40:47 +0000

LisaM: now, that's a pretty good example of tunnel vision.