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18 Years and Fewer Hairs Later

Posted on | January 5, 2010 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

A. C. Kleinheider notes the danger of education not following enthusiasm:

Those caught up in tea party hysteria are the kind of voters Ross Perot captured in 1992. Two years later, without Perot, these foaming, vaguely culturally conservative, middle-income voters went Republican.

But these voters, unlike their tea party activist manipulators, don’t give a damn about Edmund Burke, Ludwig Von Mises or Ayn Rand. They want jobs and a government that makes sense to them — that’s it. As long as Democratic candidates don’t explicitly agitate their culturally conservative sensibilities and can deflect the appeals Republicans make on those hot-button social issues, these voters can be won over with economic arguments.

Yes, I was a Perot voter in ’92, my first year of voting eligibility. Also, I had a full head of hair.

18 years and fewer hairs later, what has changed? Technological capabilities and the national debt have both increased phenomenally. If the Progressive Faith thinks that this will all just blow over, then their sermons are delivered by a Judas priest.

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16 Responses to “18 Years and Fewer Hairs Later”

  1. Guy Average
    January 6th, 2010 @ 1:08 am

    I was not a Perot voter, but I do recall that Ross was leading in the polls before he pulled his BS off-again, on-again act, and had he not done that he likely would have won the Presidency. My feeling has always been that he was a stooge for Clinton, designed to split the conservative vote, and when he started to lead in the polls they had to do something to mitigate his popularity so he would not win. I do know for sure that the changes Ross proposed were not even close to being Constitutional, but many people wanted change pretty badly….

    Oh, at my next 9/12 Group meeting I’ll have to ask around and see which one is the TEA Party activist manipulator. Heck, while I’m at it I’ll just take a poll and see who would vote Democrat in the next election under any circumstances. That should be an interesting meeting.

  2. Guy Average
    January 6th, 2010 @ 1:08 am

    I was not a Perot voter, but I do recall that Ross was leading in the polls before he pulled his BS off-again, on-again act, and had he not done that he likely would have won the Presidency. My feeling has always been that he was a stooge for Clinton, designed to split the conservative vote, and when he started to lead in the polls they had to do something to mitigate his popularity so he would not win. I do know for sure that the changes Ross proposed were not even close to being Constitutional, but many people wanted change pretty badly….

    Oh, at my next 9/12 Group meeting I’ll have to ask around and see which one is the TEA Party activist manipulator. Heck, while I’m at it I’ll just take a poll and see who would vote Democrat in the next election under any circumstances. That should be an interesting meeting.

  3. Guy Average
    January 5th, 2010 @ 8:08 pm

    I was not a Perot voter, but I do recall that Ross was leading in the polls before he pulled his BS off-again, on-again act, and had he not done that he likely would have won the Presidency. My feeling has always been that he was a stooge for Clinton, designed to split the conservative vote, and when he started to lead in the polls they had to do something to mitigate his popularity so he would not win. I do know for sure that the changes Ross proposed were not even close to being Constitutional, but many people wanted change pretty badly….

    Oh, at my next 9/12 Group meeting I’ll have to ask around and see which one is the TEA Party activist manipulator. Heck, while I’m at it I’ll just take a poll and see who would vote Democrat in the next election under any circumstances. That should be an interesting meeting.

  4. rod stanton
    January 6th, 2010 @ 1:12 am

    Smitty
    I first voted (after watchind “THE SPEECH” 10/64) for Barry. I voted for Ross in 92/

    I have tried to make this point at least 3 times in this blog.

  5. rod stanton
    January 6th, 2010 @ 1:12 am

    Smitty
    I first voted (after watchind “THE SPEECH” 10/64) for Barry. I voted for Ross in 92/

    I have tried to make this point at least 3 times in this blog.

  6. rod stanton
    January 5th, 2010 @ 8:12 pm

    Smitty
    I first voted (after watchind “THE SPEECH” 10/64) for Barry. I voted for Ross in 92/

    I have tried to make this point at least 3 times in this blog.

  7. Joe
    January 6th, 2010 @ 1:16 am

    RACISM! Every single teabagger is white.

    And Chris Matthews would know because he is mighty mighty white.

    I bet he likes getting teabagged.

    Learn to speak teabag.

  8. Joe
    January 6th, 2010 @ 1:16 am

    RACISM! Every single teabagger is white.

    And Chris Matthews would know because he is mighty mighty white.

    I bet he likes getting teabagged.

    Learn to speak teabag.

  9. Joe
    January 5th, 2010 @ 8:16 pm

    RACISM! Every single teabagger is white.

    And Chris Matthews would know because he is mighty mighty white.

    I bet he likes getting teabagged.

    Learn to speak teabag.

  10. rod stanton
    January 6th, 2010 @ 1:30 am

    Smitty
    I first voted (after watchind “THE SPEECH” 10/64) for Barry. I voted for Ross in 92/

    I have tried to make this point at least 3 times in this blog.
    THE GOP SELF DESTRUCTS WHEN IT ELECTS A LEFTY “READ MY LIPS ….!” PRESIDENT. The only reason it happened in 08 instead of 04 was the Dems ran JFK. (As a former killer from Nam I have always had a har* on for JFK. Every combat vet I know feels the same way. Had the Dems run anyone else in 04 GWB would have been out.

    A.C.K. is dead wrong. I read Mises as and undergrad and Ayn’s 2 big books at the Pendleton library while preparing to fight the real JFK’s war 45 years ago. I have. like ronnie, been a Randian for 50 years. (Ronnie was the guy on the TV 10/64 giving “THE SPEECH” and IMHO the best President we’ve ever had. Bar none! I alsohave at least as many letters after my name as “The One”; probably more. But as Sarah said today if you dont have the ba*ls to lead your are just a professor not a Comander in Chief.
    IF the GOP wants to win it must stop backing collectivists. Y:ou do not need to go to grad school to figure that out. Probably going to grad school makes understand what is simple not understandable. I try hard to not let my education get in the way of clear thinking. I wish the GOP”brains” (no Pinky here) would do the same.

  11. rod stanton
    January 6th, 2010 @ 1:30 am

    Smitty
    I first voted (after watchind “THE SPEECH” 10/64) for Barry. I voted for Ross in 92/

    I have tried to make this point at least 3 times in this blog.
    THE GOP SELF DESTRUCTS WHEN IT ELECTS A LEFTY “READ MY LIPS ….!” PRESIDENT. The only reason it happened in 08 instead of 04 was the Dems ran JFK. (As a former killer from Nam I have always had a har* on for JFK. Every combat vet I know feels the same way. Had the Dems run anyone else in 04 GWB would have been out.

    A.C.K. is dead wrong. I read Mises as and undergrad and Ayn’s 2 big books at the Pendleton library while preparing to fight the real JFK’s war 45 years ago. I have. like ronnie, been a Randian for 50 years. (Ronnie was the guy on the TV 10/64 giving “THE SPEECH” and IMHO the best President we’ve ever had. Bar none! I alsohave at least as many letters after my name as “The One”; probably more. But as Sarah said today if you dont have the ba*ls to lead your are just a professor not a Comander in Chief.
    IF the GOP wants to win it must stop backing collectivists. Y:ou do not need to go to grad school to figure that out. Probably going to grad school makes understand what is simple not understandable. I try hard to not let my education get in the way of clear thinking. I wish the GOP”brains” (no Pinky here) would do the same.

  12. rod stanton
    January 5th, 2010 @ 8:30 pm

    Smitty
    I first voted (after watchind “THE SPEECH” 10/64) for Barry. I voted for Ross in 92/

    I have tried to make this point at least 3 times in this blog.
    THE GOP SELF DESTRUCTS WHEN IT ELECTS A LEFTY “READ MY LIPS ….!” PRESIDENT. The only reason it happened in 08 instead of 04 was the Dems ran JFK. (As a former killer from Nam I have always had a har* on for JFK. Every combat vet I know feels the same way. Had the Dems run anyone else in 04 GWB would have been out.

    A.C.K. is dead wrong. I read Mises as and undergrad and Ayn’s 2 big books at the Pendleton library while preparing to fight the real JFK’s war 45 years ago. I have. like ronnie, been a Randian for 50 years. (Ronnie was the guy on the TV 10/64 giving “THE SPEECH” and IMHO the best President we’ve ever had. Bar none! I alsohave at least as many letters after my name as “The One”; probably more. But as Sarah said today if you dont have the ba*ls to lead your are just a professor not a Comander in Chief.
    IF the GOP wants to win it must stop backing collectivists. Y:ou do not need to go to grad school to figure that out. Probably going to grad school makes understand what is simple not understandable. I try hard to not let my education get in the way of clear thinking. I wish the GOP”brains” (no Pinky here) would do the same.

  13. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 6th, 2010 @ 4:48 am

    But these voters, unlike their tea party activist manipulators, don’t give a damn about Edmund Burke, Ludwig Von Mises or Ayn Rand. They want jobs and a government that makes sense to them — that’s it.

    A “government that makes sense to them” would bear a remarkable resemblance to one that Burke or Rand would design.

    The “activist manipulators” I know who have read Ayn Rand aren’t people who needed Ayn Rand to tell them how to think; they needed her to coalesce their thoughts into something rational. They needed her to give a moral reason why capitalism is superiour to bleeding-heart systems like socialism and communism.

    As always, the top-down, intellectual wannabies believe that, since they need someone to tell them how to think, that all of us need someone to do the same – whether it be us conservative intellectual manipulators who need Burke and Rand, or those mindless followers who need us because they are too stupid for Rand and Burke and Hayek. Pure projection.

  14. Roxeanne de Luca
    January 5th, 2010 @ 11:48 pm

    But these voters, unlike their tea party activist manipulators, don’t give a damn about Edmund Burke, Ludwig Von Mises or Ayn Rand. They want jobs and a government that makes sense to them — that’s it.

    A “government that makes sense to them” would bear a remarkable resemblance to one that Burke or Rand would design.

    The “activist manipulators” I know who have read Ayn Rand aren’t people who needed Ayn Rand to tell them how to think; they needed her to coalesce their thoughts into something rational. They needed her to give a moral reason why capitalism is superiour to bleeding-heart systems like socialism and communism.

    As always, the top-down, intellectual wannabies believe that, since they need someone to tell them how to think, that all of us need someone to do the same – whether it be us conservative intellectual manipulators who need Burke and Rand, or those mindless followers who need us because they are too stupid for Rand and Burke and Hayek. Pure projection.

  15. molonlabe28
    January 6th, 2010 @ 4:15 pm

    A.C. Kleinheider is in utter denial about the current political horizon, as his daily writings reflect.

    He is going to have a very difficult year.

    In Tennessee, a Republican will be easily elected Governor, and the Republicans will pick up a few more state House seats, thereby giving them a commanding majority in that chamber.

    The state legislature will then re-draw the Congressional and General Assembly districts in a manner which augments their majorities.

    This is precisely what the Democrats did for the last 140 years that they controlled the legislature.

    Those days are over.

    Tennessee is a conservative state.

  16. molonlabe28
    January 6th, 2010 @ 11:15 am

    A.C. Kleinheider is in utter denial about the current political horizon, as his daily writings reflect.

    He is going to have a very difficult year.

    In Tennessee, a Republican will be easily elected Governor, and the Republicans will pick up a few more state House seats, thereby giving them a commanding majority in that chamber.

    The state legislature will then re-draw the Congressional and General Assembly districts in a manner which augments their majorities.

    This is precisely what the Democrats did for the last 140 years that they controlled the legislature.

    Those days are over.

    Tennessee is a conservative state.