Earth to John Kerry: You, Not Velma Hart, are Out of Touch
Rich Lowry, over at National Review, has a great editorial out today about the out-of-touch liberals who are ruling our country. He takes aim first at Sen. John Kerry, who in the wake of Velma Hart's outspoken frustration against President Obama, said last week,
We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.
Reacting to this, Lowry writes:
When John Kerry calls you out of touch, you must be so far out of touch that you need to call Mazlan Othman, the U.N.’s designated liaison to space aliens, to re-establish contact with Planet Earth.
He then makes the broader point that to Democrats, "Whenever citizens reject the liberal agenda, they must be either monsters or fools."
Whatever else you think of Democrats, they are lousy amateur sociologists and political scientists. Whenever the public rejects them, it’s a “temper tantrum,” in late ABC News anchor Peter Jennings’s term for the 1994 electoral rout. Liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson has teed up that tried-and-true explanation for this fall: “The American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats.”
This attitude, according to Cornell Law Professor and conservative blogger William Jacobson, is exactly why the outlook is so bleak for Democrats in this election cycle.
It just continues the Democrats’ theme that the reason people are upset is because they don’t understand — they're not smart enough...That sort of rhetoric just gets people even more upset.
Lowry concludes:
When the late Democratic Sen. Mo Udall ran for president in 1976, he commented after one primary loss, “The voters have spoken . . . the bastards.” That’s a great line, but a poor message for a political party.
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May '10
Re: Earth to John Kerry: You, Not Velma Hart, are Out of Touch
I have to say I see the same phenomenon in the reaction to Christine O'Donnell's abstinence-activist past. The sneering condescension is unbelievable. It's as if they think all normal, rational Americans are totally on board with the runaway libertinism being foisted on our children.
I think they're in for a rude awakening.
Aug '10
Re: Earth to John Kerry: You, Not Velma Hart, are Out of Touch
Hmm, simple slogans... like, for example, "Hope and Change 2008"? Or maybe "Yes We Can", or "Anyone but Bush", or "Help Main Street, not Wall Street".
Funny how all the really mindless slogans in recent memory have been coming from the Democrats. At least they're practicing what their Presidential candidate is preaching.
Pop quiz: how many Tea Party candidates are crafting campaigns around simplistic slogans? Their critique of Washington politics is a lot more involved than anything the Dems have put on a t-shirt in the past 10 years; arguing from first principles tends to make your message longer than even your average John Kerry bloviation.
Jul '10
Re: Earth to John Kerry: You, Not Velma Hart, are Out of Touch
Hey, why are you being so hard on Kerry and calling him out of touch?
I can easily see how he could draw the very conclusions he has.
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He gets elected doesn't he?
Aug '10
Re: Earth to John Kerry: You, Not Velma Hart, are Out of Touch
I suggest we initiate a new award: The Neville Chamberlain Prize for Delusional Cognitive Disconnect.