Comments on: Re: the Imperial wardrobe http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/10/re-the-imperial-wardrobe/ I might have been born yesterday, sir, but I stayed up all night. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:16:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Steve http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/10/re-the-imperial-wardrobe/#comment-25 Steve Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:13:28 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/10/re-the-imperial-wardrobe/#comment-25 Which brings us back to the truism that people vote identity, not issues. On poll after poll, the majority of Americans are to the left of frickin' contemporary Democrats on most issues. But they vote for Republicans because the Republican Party is the party of being superior to the stupid hippies and eggheads. There is no Republican philosophy. There's a Republican brand, but no philosophy. And for the Democrats, there isn't even a brand. Which brings us back to the truism that people vote identity, not issues. On poll after poll, the majority of Americans are to the left of frickin’ contemporary Democrats on most issues. But they vote for Republicans because the Republican Party is the party of being superior to the stupid hippies and eggheads.

There is no Republican philosophy. There’s a Republican brand, but no philosophy. And for the Democrats, there isn’t even a brand.

]]> By: Jennifer http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/10/re-the-imperial-wardrobe/#comment-24 Jennifer Sun, 12 Mar 2006 21:26:16 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/10/re-the-imperial-wardrobe/#comment-24 The Arab Ports thing reminds me of the Crazy Alan Keyes dilemma...where the only people in IL who agreed with him were also too racist to vote for him. Republicans are (on paper) for free markets and outsourcing, right? What's good for Business is good for America! And to paraphrase Adam Smith, if people have good business relations with us they're not going to do anything violent to fuck it up. It totally makes sense to put that company in charge of ports management...I haven't read the details of the deal, which I assume smacks of the same cronyism as everything this administration does, but Bush is probably in the right about this one from a philosophical perspective, and Republicans would agree with him except that the company is run by damn dirty Arabs who can't be trusted. Ruh-roh. And if something bad DID happen, the people who approved the deal would look really, really bad. So it's sick and hilarious to watch it unravel, just like it was sick and hilarious to watch downstate farmers who had voted a straight Republican ticket for generations try to explain exactly why they didn't like Alan Keyes without actually using the word "nigger." The Arab Ports thing reminds me of the Crazy Alan Keyes dilemma…where the only people in IL who agreed with him were also too racist to vote for him.

Republicans are (on paper) for free markets and outsourcing, right? What’s good for Business is good for America! And to paraphrase Adam Smith, if people have good business relations with us they’re not going to do anything violent to fuck it up. It totally makes sense to put that company in charge of ports management…I haven’t read the details of the deal, which I assume smacks of the same cronyism as everything this administration does, but Bush is probably in the right about this one from a philosophical perspective, and Republicans would agree with him except that the company is run by damn dirty Arabs who can’t be trusted. Ruh-roh. And if something bad DID happen, the people who approved the deal would look really, really bad.

So it’s sick and hilarious to watch it unravel, just like it was sick and hilarious to watch downstate farmers who had voted a straight Republican ticket for generations try to explain exactly why they didn’t like Alan Keyes without actually using the word “nigger.”

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