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2009-08-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2009-08-12 06:52|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

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As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church I must say I love Camille Paglia!

Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-12 08:19|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-08-12 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 If she's a libertarian, what the hell is she doing in the Democrat party?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2009-08-12 08:24|| 2009-08-12 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 This just gets more and more interesting. I'm beginning to wonder if this year will one day be looked back on as "The Great Awakening of 2009" when the American people took their country back from the feckless, corrupt, and degenerate politicians infiltrating OUR government.

Posted by eltoroverde 2009-08-12 08:39|| 2009-08-12 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought my party was populist..

See, no matter how well educated and positioned in the social structure or urban culture, we all still cling to our fairy tales. That party died with Hubert Humphrey. It's the real Patrician Party which is sustained by a smug elitist cabal not only of the moneyed and academic coastie set, but the upper echelons of our legal class of mob Dons in union clothing. Unfortunately, [or fortunately if you're a Donk] the upper echelons of the Trunks have been likewise infected with those who absolutely disdain the small business-worker-traditional masses and lust for the salons and power of the Beltway.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-12 08:54|| 2009-08-12 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 They are losing their Vietnam-era democrats (at least from around here). If Nixon was over the top, then what is this? There are honest to themselves liberals out there and they have to look themselves in the mirror in the morning. I have an anarchist friend who was all rock chalk barack until 3 months ago...big brother government, high taxes, and mandatory government service pisses them off as well. The neo-hippies, they have pride too.

Only a certain type of person wants free money but is too lazy to go get that free money themselves and wants another to divvy out that money.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-08-12 11:48|| 2009-08-12 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 She lost me on the first paragraph. Don't these morons ever get tired of blaming everything on Bush?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-08-12 11:51|| 2009-08-12 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 "Don't these morons ever get tired of blaming everything on Bush?"

No.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-12 13:22|| 2009-08-12 13:22|| Front Page Top

#8 The Bush-bash is a rote ritual, like lawyers saying "May it please the Court"--what's far more interesting is what comes after that. Camille Paglia isn't on "our" side, but she's no knee-jerk partisan. She calls things as she sees them--and she doesn't like what she sees. I see a potential convert to conservatism, or at least a person we can do business with on an issue or two.

Posted by Mike 2009-08-12 15:20|| 2009-08-12 15:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Take the Bush bashing as a way for her to convince liberals to continue reading. It's like a badge of liberalism and without she risks being called a conservative (especially with the LIbertarian comment).

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-08-12 17:07|| 2009-08-12 17:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Bush bashing, claims of racism and nazism, level playing fields, fairness, ~~Get out of Afghanistan~~, etc....all chants and slogans of the left.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-12 17:11|| 2009-08-12 17:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't forget "social justice".

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2009-08-12 17:32|| 2009-08-12 17:32|| Front Page Top

#12 True "social justice" for the Lefties would involve a good punch in the mouth, Grenter.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-12 18:16|| 2009-08-12 18:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Update: the moonbats are already denouncing her.

Posted by Mike 2009-08-12 20:20|| 2009-08-12 20:20|| Front Page Top

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