The Black Republican

I talk a lot of politics w/a Liberal friend of mine. He mentioned Frist and said, "Dr.Frist". Hmmm, Dr. Dean and Dr. Frist? "I'd take Dean over Frist any day", my friend said. "He's so much more honest!!" Do you have friends like this? You love 'em cause more unites than divides, but good Lord... more honest? I said I had to go bring in the cows for milking. And I did. I live in the Kingdom, in VT, the very most Northeastern part up by the Canadian border. So I know Dean as Governor Dean. I can't stand Dean... or anything he stands for. I have to say, though, he doesn't make me angry; he makes me laugh out loud. He says nothing that is coherent and I'm loving it. "Abortion and gay marriage are Republican issues". Sure. "We have to find a way to get our message across to voters because the Republicans are not more moral or have better values than the Dems." This is the greatest thing that could happen to the Republicians 'cause if Dean becomes "contrite" and tries to "apologize", well... Dean hates eatin' crow. His arrogance makes him choke on that crow, but I hope he trys 'cause Dean choking on crow is an amusing thought. And I'd love to watch.

Yes, I have friends like that, family too. I recently wrote about an exchange with one of my friends, here, and one of our readers chimes in that he has also been dealing with friends who don't get it. I can say that while it can be reassuring to know that others share one's frustrations; I wish it was happening less often. I have a sister who went left over the abortion issue. She was so bent on "protecting women's rights" that she abandoned all reason and now sounds like Dean on Republicans. But, that is her burden to carry. She chose to become a single issue voter, and then she chose to swallow the moonbat Kool-aid concerning the rest of the liberal dogma; we can only hope she returns to reality one day soon.

You know, my Liberal friend says I'M a one issue voter because I'm pro-life, but I know it goes deeper than abortion. I would love school choice. I'm not for gay marriage or even civil unions. Go to a lawyer like anyone else would and get a legal contract drawn up that says what you want. I don't know the name of this, but it's binding for a partnership. Then i'm obviously accused of being anti-gay. Go figure. I go to a blog called Ambviablog. She's Liberal, but centrist... I think. Anyway, a bit of conversation with a person of differing opinions is healthy, I believe, but I'm sorry for your sister's brain-washing.

It has been a strange evolution to see her become so fixated. Strange that she has become so callous about abortion; when I clearly remember how devasted she was that she miscarried the only time she got pregnant. Then, she felt a great sense of loss and, now, that entity is just an inconvienent tissue mass affecting a woman's freedom. Strange too, that once she adopted this new position she grew to be unable to distinquish this one issue from all positions held by those who are pro-life. Now, if a person is pro-life, or if one Party is associated with a pro-life stance; then, for her, all the positions held by the pro-lifers must be wrong too. And, so, she has followed the myths until she now hates Republicans, she says, even though she loves her family which is almost entirely Republican and have been since the creation of the Party.

I am not Republican, as my bio here states, but she refuses to discuss issues with me; though she will throw in a snide remark from time to time, especially if she can then get off the phone fast, or she then apologizes, before I explain how her logic is flawed. Long ago, before she learned not to mess with me, we took the abortion discussion to its roots. I eventually asked her when it becomes life? Birht satified her. So, then I asked, exactly what happens at birth, what agent is added, what force awakes at that point that isn't there before; I did not get an answer, and I am still waiting, ten, or so, years on. I wait, and she no longer talks about when life begins.

But she knows it is the fault of the Republicans that there are hard questions out there. :)

I think your sister will never get past the pain of her miscarriage, so it might be easier for her to be angry and focused on a blob of tissue or a non-developed non-person than to admit the pain of loss of a child. Maybe it doesn't hurt as badly that way. And, yet, she remains childless. It must have been so sad.
I am always curious why people develop the way they do in their values and this whole argument over morality just makes me even moreso. Spud, my liberal friend, sends me emails linking to articles from the NY Times, or the Nation, for God's sake. What a rag that is. He just sent me an article from the Washington Post on Dean's stand for morals. Dean says, "A moral value is a personal responsibility and individual freedom. And that is what Democrats are going to start to stand for--moral values." I feel like I'm in someone else's reality with all this spin, the Truth is so deeply twisted and then taken for Gospel. I think the left are a bunch of lemmings and to think, Deanieboy will be the first off the cliff's edge.
No, there's no reasoning with them. Esp. if it's a moral issue because for some reason they hear...condemnation from self-rightous Theocrats. Go figure. If I'm a Theocrat then why did our forefathers get on the damned boat to begin with? Would't that make them the forefathers of Theocracy? Oh, I suppose that's been spun from history, too.

Interesting theory, this is not the first time I have heard it suggested that leftists are acting out, against a sense of loss, a misplaced sense of guilt, or, a well-placed sense of guilt. The term "projecting" comes to mind. Where a person projects an attribute unto others which the person sub-consciously knows (or fears) they are themselves guilty of.

Sis's idealogy also stems from her generation, and contact with all those "free" thinkers who discovered, er, copied, er, ripped off emulated the social experimentation that grew out with the Sixties (phrased purposedly to acknowledge the assertion of, and the failure of the ideas; they grew out). It somehow failed to register with the next wave, that the experiments all failed, and that there is no universal "free".

So, missing that point, that everything has a price, (whether it be effort, reciprication, regret, humiliation, punishment, etc), she, and so many others, are "free" to do what they want without consequence. Which, may be what Dean means when he qualifies the new Democratic moral stance, all moral all the time, as long as one can do whatever they want, freely. Free even from the regret over events which one could not have control. It seems possible that so much of the leftist mind-set can be explained by their desire for a world in which there are no consequences.

And, the other Party becomes the evil doer who must be blamed when the world doesn't work that way. Never mind physics. Never mind human nature. Never mind those unfathomable Acts of God. For them it is the other guys fault.

Oh, and lest we forget; it is also a time-tested way to raise money; by the the bible-thumpers who warned of eternal damnation for those who did heed the way. And the money translates into political power. And the political power translates into more failed experimentation. Which is the fault of.....

Are you so sure you're not a Republican?

Up here, the progressives are a growing party. And they really support the family farm, which means small and poor. That automatically gets them these farmers votes (except mine). These farms are fewer by the day, someone's always getting out. Then, when a progressive wins an election and celebrates at the B&B down the road owned by two out-of-state gay guys, some farmers are mortified.

I have to laugh. HellLLlloOooo!! Of course he's gonna celebrate there...#1 It's the obvious central and beautiful place. #2 It's the party platform to support gay agenda and #3 This guy took $$$$ from two gay rights groups, "Out In The Mountains" and something like "VT Families" ... I can't remember.

This guy never said he supported gay rights outright, but if he takes their $$$$, they must expect something in return? It was a very devisive issue in VT with civil unions. The conservatives all posted big white signs with black lettering: TAKE BACK VERMONT. I wanted to, but was still forming a yen on the politics scene, plus I'm a wuss and I don't think my husband would have appreciated it. The Northeast Kingdom was plastered, anyway. So, what does deanieboy do? TAKE BACK AMERICA. What a little Puke he is and what a slap in the face to his old VT citizens of the conservative stripe. That's thievery!

You give me way too much credit for coming up with a theory of projection from the Left, but it's cool that I came across that way. I was just talking of displacement of pain and coping skills and maybe denial of guilt or of failure? That sounds heavy for a hick, but to know someone you anticipated as a life was taken away for some unknown reason? She's angry more at God than the Republicans, I think.

Lol, you said:

"She's angry more at God than the Republicans",

She might consider those nouns to be redundant.:)

It is good to hear from a Vermonter with some sense. When the most prominent citizen is a kook it is easy to forget that he doesn't represent everyone's views up there.

You also have a nice writing style, any thought to guest blogging? I think I could convince Chris to review your work with the idea of posting it. You could keep us in touch with the Red State within the Blue Vermont? Though I should warn you, it can become a habit; you might find yourself opening a Blog of your own. Just a thought.

my twenty=five year old daughter is blue state to the bone. when she realized kerry lost and saw how red this country is she said that the fly over states should have an i.q. test before they are allowed to vote."stupid people should not be allowed to ruin this country." who knew.

My daughter has a cute shirt that says, "Make the stupid people shut up". I thought she was talking of Ariana Huffington, but I suppose if we all wore it we'd all have to comply at one time or another.

I sent my friend,Spud, over to check out the BLack Republican. He can cut and paste and made me eat my words again, but I don't mind the taste. I just hope he's forgiven me; cuss word, I sent him here.

Did you check out the pro-life cartoon on TenNapel's blog? Spud, he didn't like taht much, either. Am I allowed to mention other blogs when on yours?