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| Ellie Light, meet Anthony Frascino. You two have a lot in common. |
| 2010-01-27 |
| James Taranto, "Best of the Web" @ The Wall Street Journal Yesterday's Boston Globe carried a delightfully overwrought letter to the editor: The election of Scott Brown suggests one thing: An unknown quantity of malcontents called independents are slowly taking over the voting booths. These voters have no loyalty, and many are constantly enraged. They switch parties like underwear and are always in a state of flux. They're usually uninformed and find any kind of governance menacing. They use the voting booth like a weapon for self-indulgence and with little consideration for the good of the whole. They like their role as spoilers and care little about the repercussions. These are America's insurgents who care nothing about democracy. They're determined to make the United States ungovernable. Friday's Philadelphia Inquirer also carried a delightfully overwrought letter to the editor: The election of Scott Brown suggests one thing: An unknown quantity of malcontents called independents are slowly taking over the voting booths ("GOP wins a Senate upset in Mass.", Wednesday).Now, give this guy credit for one thing at least; he's not trying to pretend he lives where the newspaper is published--unlike Ellie Light. In an earlier letter to the Inquirer, Frascino railed against Sen. Joe Lieberman, "a self-centered man only concerned about his own interests and those of his health insurance benefactors," who "makes Judas Iscariot look like Mother Teresa!" Talk about a constantly enraged malcontent! And Frascino is quite prolific as well; a Factiva search turns up 107 hits, the vast majority letters to the editor. In one, from last April (no longer available online), he sings the praises of Sen. Arlen Specter (R2D2, Pa.), which suggests that Frasciano's loyalty to his own party outweighs his belief in party loyalty as a principle. Frascino's notion of "democracy" is confused, to say the least, since voters' freedom not to be bound to a party would seem to be a necessary condition for democracy under any reasonable conception. But we'll give him this--he's a lot more entertaining than Ellie Light, or even Winston Steward. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #1 I like it that I owe no loyalty to any party. I also owe no loyalty to the Federal Government. I don't "Owe" loyalty to any entity. I choose to preserve, support, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I will support any candidate that does the same. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2010-01-27 18:55 |