Who We Are


We are not the stereotype of the typical Republican. We drink. We smoke. We cuss. We like The Simpsons and Family Guy, but we love South Park. We are Goldwater Girls Gone Wild and cynical punk rockers and drunk frat boys and bong-toting Burkeans and chain smoking blue collars and right-wing ravers and conservative clubbers and postmodern iconoclasts and Wall Streeters partying like it's 1982. We are metalheads and deadheads and parrotheads. Our heroes include Johnny Ramone, Jonah Goldberg, Greg Gutfeld, Hank Jr., P.J. O'Rourke, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, Ted Nugent, Neal Peart of Rush, Kid Rock, Andy Levy, Andrew Breitbart and Frank Kelly Rich. We love Ronald Reagan and PBR with straight shots, and Margaret Thatcher and fine cigars with Scotch. We often lean more libertarian than traditional conservative on certain issues, and would love to kick the ass of anyone wearing a Che t-shirt. We care a helluva lot more about a candidate's tax policy than past drug use. We are well informed on pop culture, the latest music, and Milton Friedman. We read National Review, Ayn Rand, and The Onion. Our religious beliefs range from devout to atheist, but we are more likely to be nursing a hangover on Sunday morning than in a church pew. And we are getting damn tired of people exclaiming, "YOU'RE a Republican?!?!"

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Snark Attack

The Associated Press, the unofficial communication staff for the Obama campaign, has a report on Gov. Palin's appearance on Hugh Hewitt's radio show yesterday. The basis of the entire report appears to be an attempt to show that Palin is not able to relate to the average American because they are doing better financially than the average American. (I'm waiting for the same report on the actually rich Obama, Biden, Edwards Kerry, etc.) They end the report with this:

"It's just the great financial crisis that America is in, as our savings accounts also, and a 401(k), they're being hit," she said.

She didn't explain how her savings account was being affected.
The inference one can draw from the AP's snarky last sentence is that Palin doesn't understand that her savings account isn't tied to stocks.  Palin's meaning is clear: because of higher prices on everything from gas to food to clothing, their savings account has been affected, as has those of millions of Americans.  Perhaps the AP should hire Gwen Ifill.
Posted by at
Labels: , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

The Edwards Report, the right wing Onion rip-off.

Loading...