How the Limousine Liberal Sees Non-Obama-Lovers
Posted by TFG on June 5th, 2008
It’s such a “But nobody I know voted for him!” quote. Tom actually thinks everybody who might vote for McCain goes to fund-raising dinners. I’ve never been to a fund-raising dinner. I’ve been to a fund-raising kegger, but that was for my best friend since childhood. The thing is, I’ve just spent a week in the heartland where people are working their asses off to make ends meet and to hold it all together. All told, I’ve heard precisely zero words from a single soul saying they can’t wait to get gummint health care, higher taxes, and a stronger force for peace in the Middle East by way of the Islamic Republic of Iran. “Fuck that shit” is kind of universal among the hoi-polloi.
I like to think it’s a Texas thing — even here in aught-eight, we still don’t think the feds are going to save us. We’d frankly prefer they don’t even try. I’m pretty damn proud of that. Can we secede yet, please? The exception is Austin — they love government up there…think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. Half of their paychecks are signed by the Governor and the other half are pothead students, though, so who’s shocked by their Marxist proclivities?
I used to give Tom a pass on the leftie thing because he’d had a Shack burger. I’m now pretty sure he was one of the beautiful people that used to arrive and depart from the Shack in limousines, thinking they were really cool for mixing it up with the lower castes, yet never venturing from their table on the patio to the bar. Put it this way — I don’t have a picture of a President’s daughter on my camera’s SD card.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I arrived at the Shack on a bicycle, after riding down Ballona Creek from my one bedroom Culver City apartment. Whatever it is that Texas thinks, I was speaking of Hillary Clinton’s supporters, who are presumably passionate about the issues named — including gummint health care — and might find McCain’s policies less than satisfying. I had Chelsea Clinton on my camera’s SD card because she stopped by my company’s corporate tent at the Kentucky Derby. I was only there to take photos. The guests were allowed to bring their spouses; those of us who were hired help were not, and did not have seats out within sight of the track, and did not have access to the catered buffet.
You can dismiss me as a limousine liberal all you like, Scott. But for the record I drive a Honda Civic.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
The writer was there to take photos? OK, whatever…times are tough in CorporateSuiteAtTheKentuckyDerbyLand, I guess, and everybody’s doubling up. I wouldn’t know.
I’m just telling you you’re wrong about 99% of the Texan, and by extrapolation, American, holy Democratic base of blue-collar workers, most of whom can smell Obama for the Chicago Marxist sewer rat politician that he is. Granted, I’ve only talked to a handful, so it’s all anecdotal.
You could, on the other hand, be 100% correct about CorporateSuiteAtTheKentuckyDerbyLand Democrats. I don’t know and don’t care. I just like your quote. Especially the Jesus on a dollar bill part. Keep thinking that way. And that we’re all bitter, too.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:38 am
F that S pretty much sums up the Missouri attitude as well.
When do we get to start making biodiesel outta hippies?
The R Man
June 6th, 2008 at 8:43 am
That a boy Scott Give em HELL fing Pinkos
June 6th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Just a question: Is it elitist to comment on people’s punctuation?
June 6th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Beats Me….,
June 6th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Not elitist, just pedantic. Like me.
June 7th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Jesus on the dollar bill. What a perfect liberal whine. They want it to strike fear, FEAR, in the reader. Obama lovers, like all liberals, are always worrying about the right-wing Christians. The religious always have a devil to shun, which proves that the liberals are as religious as the best of them.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Um, see, the thing is, the one dollar bill thing was an exaggeration for comedic effect. Think of it as saying, for example, that a baseball player hit the ball a mile. I used that familiar device to draw attention to the fact that the typical Hillary supporter isn’t going to feel comfortable in league with the 10-Commandments-in-the-statehouse crowd that is a significant part of the Republican coalition.
That was kind of the point of the whole posting: that whatever Hillary’s supporters said in the heat of their disappointment, they were not likely to hang with the Republicans for long.
I’m not really sure there was anything whiny about it. I’m capable of whining, certainly. But in this case, I think I was aiming more at biting sarcasm. Apparently that didn’t work out, either.
June 9th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Yeah, I think I get it. We’re unenlightened hicks. Hardy har har.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Just found your blog & lovin’ it. You’re very right, most of the liberals on the coasts don’t realize how the blue collar Americans actually live.
Oh yeah born and raised in Texas over here, can we get LESS government plz?