Don't Talk Like a Twit

[impeach the gop]

By Jonathan Rowe, YES! Magazine
December 11, 2003

I was hitchhiking around England in the spring of 1983. It happened to
be the middle of an election campaign: Margaret Thatcher was running
for re-election against a professor named Michael Foot, who
represented what was called, with wonderful British aplomb, Labour's
"Radical Tendency."

Polls find that voters support progressive issues. So why have
Americans been voting for such conservative candidates? Because
conservatives are speaking their language

Somewhere north of London I got a ride from a lorry driver. The man
looked as though he had stepped out of a Labour Party poster from the
1930s: gaunt frame, missing teeth, and wool snap-brim cap pulled down
to the eyes. I expected a Labour speech, but got something different.

Yes, Foot was for policies that would benefit workers: progressive
taxes, social safety net, all that. Thatcher, the hardest of Tories, was
against all these things. But Foot was also for unilateral nuclear
disarmament, and this, plus his general demeanor, sent off an aroma that
this driver could not abide. "What a twit he is," he said, in an inflection I
cannot begin to duplicate, especially in print. "Ya goot ta be toooof."

You got to be tough. It's a rough world out there, and this Foot was a
wimp.

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[Tansy_Gold]

1. Someday, someone is going to come out and say. . . .

. . . ."That bleeping a**hole effing LIED to us. He lied and he lied and he lied again, and THAT's why we're in all this mess and that's why we have to get rid of him and all his lying a**hole buddies."

Dems don't do that.

And they gotta.

They just plain gotta.

As Tim Robbins once said, people will vote for someone they don't even agree with if they believe (even if it isn't true) that person has the strength of conviction, stands FOR something, and will take charge. All the * photo-ops create that illusion, and unless the Dems start the same strategy, we're gonna have four more years of this crap, with no end in sight.

Tansy Gold, who calls * an effing liar every chance she gets

[no name no slogan]

3. That's what Wellstone did

And that's why he got Republican votes, too, despite the fact that they disagreed with his platform 90% of the time.

He spoke plainly, avoiding those "25 cent words", and told the TRUTH with conviction. I only see some of that in a few of our candidates for president, but I see it most in Dennis Kucinich. He talks straight, plain, and forcefully-- and he means every word of it.

Go look at his position papers, and within the first few minutes you know where he stands, and what he will do when he's president. No "buzzwords", no "politico-speak", no high-falutin' speechwriters or "political consultants" to spin the message. Just straight, honest talk.

[QC]

2. Excellent post!

[Droopy]

4. Your subject line is insensitive.

:silly:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. I have to agree

Back in my earliest Internet days when I was still on AOL, I looked in on a discussion of liberation theology-- a philosophy that has been popular and successful in Latin America. The posters were wondering why fundie churches that promoted Republican values were thriving in poor neighborhoods.

Meanwhile, they were blathering on about "Christopraxis" and "kerygma" and "the preferential option for the poor." Right--your average poor person is just going to eat that up NOT.

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