Archive for October 16th, 2010
NEVADA: On the ground early voting report
Not sure how to take this: but apparently I inspired a political sketch in the new Quixotic show
Quixotic is a theater troupe a friend of mine is in — and he gets mad at me whenever I review their shows because I am honest about what I like and dislike about them.
I think Quixotic is the funniest comedy I’ve seen in Chicago and get Christmas morning, running down the stairs in my footie-pajamas, racing for the presents excited whenever I hear they’re mounting a new production.
They’re sketch comedians and their shows usually have great Boystown in-jokes, little Easter Eggs, and these very slick threads running through 10-15 short bits that tie the whole thing together in the end. The clip above is from their last show, which featured a Neil Patrick Harris impersonator, and wove vampire jokes throughout in nods to the Twilight saga of nonsense in theaters the last few years.
I can’t recommend them more highly — it is the best, most fun, inexpensive, and interesting way to spend a Friday or Saturday evening in Boystown.
BUT, and this is the part my friend always resents, the writing team for Quixotic is very pro-Obama, drunk on Kool-Aid, and in past shows they have tried to shoehorn Obama praise into sketches that didn’t fit…and those lines fell flat.
It almost feels — and I’ve told my friend this directly — as if they got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and were required, by stipulation of Article 12, Paragraph 13 of said grant, to include a minimum of four lines, comprising at least 35 words, praising Obama as the Lightbringer to deliver unto this world a Golden Age of Hope and Change.
I certainly don’t expect Quixotic to be critical of Obama or any Democrat. It’s a gay theater troupe in Boystown. I don’t like the shots they take at Governor Palin (because they come off as ignorant and petty) but if the Governor saw their show she’d probably laugh — because if you are a public figure, you need to expect parody and ridicule as that’s the American political tradition.
Quixotic’s Obama praise is just so cardboard and clunky, and it never fits with the sketch it’s in or the theme of the show. Since I know the writing team, I can easily identify who’s writing this praise…and he’s a nice guy, but a die-hard Obama cultist who really and truly thinks this man walks on water.
I think this damages their shows, and my point’s proved by the fact that whenever they Obama praise, the audience is quiet or groans.
Well, yesterday I ran into my friend and his partner at Roscoe’s where he asked me why I hadn’t seen the new show yet. I actually didn’t even know they had a new show mounted, because Hydrate, where the show’s being performed, didn’t get around to advertising it. He told me I had to come because I actually inspired one of the sketches.
He wouldn’t tell me what it was about, but said roughly that it involved commentary against both parties for not ever really doing anything for gay voters and Democrats just using various issues to rev gays up to keep them voting Democrat.
He said it was a bipartisan sketch and that he thought of me while he was writing it — and the critiques I’ve given him in the past about the Obama propaganda.
I’m going to see the show next weekend at Hydrate — the last weekend it’s playing, so I’m glad I ran into him last night or I never would have known about it.
If you live in Chicago or are visiting, it’s actually playing tonight and next Friday and Saturday, the last three performances.
Hydrate’s at the corner of Cornelia and Halsted, right in Boystown, and tickets are $10. The show’s at 9pm.
If you end up seeing the sketch in question before I do, you’ll have to let me know what sort of HB impact I evidently had on it.
Democrat Insider: Christine O'Donnell will come very close to winning in Delaware
This is just a little thing I got this morning from someone I ran into at breakfast, who works for one of the Aldermen here in Chicago but is well-connected in the Democrat fundraising machine.
I asked him first about the Chicago Mayor’s race and the big, hush-hush-don’t-tell-anyone, “secret” of the week is that Lisa Madigan, Illinois’ Attorney General, believes Rahm Emanuel is so weakened by his Obama ties that she thinks she can win the Mayor’s race…and become the first female Mayor of Chicago that people will actually recognize (because the REAL first female Mayor was Jane Byrne, whom people in Chicago still hate).
Madigan, I was told, thinks Pat Quinn is going to win the Governor’s race (I disagree) and so then imagines he’d win re-election in 2014, meaning Madigan’s lifelong dream of being Governor would be put on hold another 8 years. No one ever accused the Madigan family of being unambitious, or the sharpest knives in the drawer.
If Madigan thought Quinn was going to lose to Brady, her plan was to remain Attorney General and then run for Governor in 2014 — fulfilling her decades-long quest to become the first female Governor of Illinois and have the power to channel all manner of graft and corruption into her family’s personal political machine, of which she would supplant her father as head in the Governor’s Mansion.
The reason Madigan didn’t want to run for Mayor is because being Mayor of Chicago is a nightmare job. After 21 years of Daley as Mayor-Emperor, his successor is going to have Thunderdome-grade blood sport to contend with every day he or she is in office. This person will be so battered and bruised by the experience that any hope of running for Governor in the future would be quashed.
It appears Lisa Madigan now believes the Governorship is out of her reach, so she’s grasping for this other plum instead…and believes the Madigan machine can take down Emanuel, who does not have any sort of support base in the city. Emanuel’s people are telling prospective donors that he has massive “star power” and will win on that alone…but people aren’t buying it and Madigan smells blood in the water.
Somehow, I turned the topic from the Madigan Family Maneuverings to Christine O’Donnell’s Senate race in Delaware because the guy I was talking to did a lot of fundraising in New England during the 2008 campaign and I know he “gets” states up there better than I do, having never lived there.
He told me that Christine O’Donnell is going to get VERY, VERY CLOSE to winning in Delaware but he does not think she will win. But, he emphasized, “It’s going to be scary close for Coons”.
I then asked him if he thought Scott Brown would win in Massachusetts, and he said, “No, I was surprised. I thought Coakley would win but it would be close”.
So, I’m thinking Democrats are really very scared of O’Donnell.
They can’t make the mental leap to believe she could win…just like they couldn’t wrap their heads around Brown winning “the Kennedy Seat”…but they see that O’Donnell is “close” in the way Brown was “close” in his race against Coakley.
My gut tells me that “close” means O’Donnell will win this is support continues for her nationwide the way it did for Hottie McAwesome in his Senate race.
The Cocktail Party GOP establishment didn’t like Brown anymore than it likes O’Donnell. It’s doing about as much for O’Donnell as it did for Brown, which is pretty much jack squat.
I don’t have anything concrete on this, but my GUT tells me that if we keep working hard for her that she’ll win…and defeat not only Coons, but the Cocktail Party GOP establishment too.
That was all I could get before the politico had to get back to his cinnamon rolls and bacon and I left the restaurant with my little pastries to go before walking around Chicago looking at Halloween costumes.
Here’s hoping all sorts of witch’s hats pop up all over Delaware on the heads of O’Donnell supporters this Halloween…to cast the spell that tips this race from “close” to “win” for CO’D.
CONFIRMED: Hillary supporters actively working against Jan Schakowsky, Rahm Emanuel, and others here in Chicago and nationwide
All of us here at HillBuzz were Democrats until 2008 — the exact date of leaving the party was Christmas Eve 2009, the day all Democrats voted for Obamacare without reading it, which was the last straw for us, but we emotionally left on May 31st, 2008 when the Rules & Bylaws Committee met in Washington, DC and took delegates away from Hillary and gave them to Obama — and we have been actively working against the Democrat Party since it veered so far to the Left and essentially went to war against Americans.
I’ve suspected, but never had proof until now, that other Team Hillary members here in Chicago were doing what we’ve been doing — but just not with a profile as high as HB or being as vocal about what they were up to.
Last night, at Sidetrack, I ran into a guy named Max who was a good friend of mine from the Clinton campaign days. He’s someone who actually moved here to Chicago to work on the campaign and got to see much more of HRC and President Clinton themselves than I ever did. Max is a political animal and works one campaign after another — currently he’s working for one of the unannounced challengers for the Chicago Mayor’s race, and is going to help take Rahm Emanuel down.
Max, like me, used to be a Democrat. He, like me, was a dyed-in-the-wool, loyal party guy.
But, what the Obama campaign did to Hillary Clinton and her supporters — all the false accusations of racism, the voter fraud, the intimidation, the national media becoming an arm of the campaign — so disgusted him that he, in his words, said “f*** those people”.
Max sees the Democrat Party as a Leftist/Communist Party now and says he will do whatever he can to destroy it.
This is interesting to me because I haven’t talked to Max in a year and a half, and because he actually makes his living in politics, and has only worked Democrat politics, I assumed he’d return to the fold and keep his mouth shut just to keep food on the table.
“I still work for Demcorats,” he explained, “but no one who’s on the list”.
“What list?,” I asked him, already guessing.
“Those f***ers who stabbed Hillary in the back, like Jan Schakowsky, Rahm Emanuel, Claire McCaskill, all those f***ers. Almost everyone I know from the HRC days are working to destroy all of these people. They’re going to be primaried in 2012 if they survive this upcoming election. They are all going down. People no longer write checks to the party. People want payback for what they did in 2008. It was a big mistake to put Obama in there and do what they did to HRC and us. F*** them”.
Max is black, and gay, so it’s always fun to hear him rail against Obama. He and I worked the Wisconsin primary together, in what was a doomed and frustrating effort. We were on the ground there the day Michelle Antoinette made her famous “I’m proud of my country for the first time in my adult life” remarks. Max was even more revolted by that than I was.
Here’s what I learned from Max last night:
* Almost all of the HRC 2008 staffers he knows are, like him, working against people like Jan Schakowsky, Rahm Emanuel, and others because they are on “The List”…this is a list, that really exists, and is circulated amongst Clinton supporters, of all the people who wronged HRC in 2008. The list includes people like Claire McCaskill (who is targeted for defeat in 2012), Emanuel (who HRC supporters are going to prevent from becoming Mayor), Schakowsky (who HRC supporters are working against for her re-election…where she has the slimmest lead EVER in her political career), John Lewis (who called the Clintons racists and is now in the fight of his life in Georgia), and others.
This is very, very similar to what I encountered in December 2008 when I went to New York for the “Conversation with Hillary” event hosted by America Ferrara — this was the week that HRH Princess Caroline Kennedy declared her claim to HRC’s vacated Senate seat.
I’m telling you, without getting word from above or some sort of directive from HRC herself or anyone Clinton-connected, the 3,000 or so HRC supporters in that auditorium all collectively decided to do whatever we could behind the scenes to doom the Princess’ power grab.
“F*** her,” people left and right said in that auditorium, while waiting for the event to start. “If that little princess thinks she can have this seat after what she did to Hillary, then she’s even dumber than we thought”.
This might be difficult for me to explain, or for you to understand if you weren’t in the trenches in 2008, but these feelings aren’t JUST about HRC and what Obama did to her. This is about the voter fraud we all witnessed. This is about Obama and his supporters calling Clinton supporters racists. This is about every dirty, nasty, rotten trick the Obamas pulled to snag the nomination and take the White House.
Some of you think this is sour grapes that Hillary is not the president — and you are wrong.
This is about the betrayal the Democrat Party gave to lifelong loyalists.
What the media never reported, and what conservatives still might not realize, is that in 2008 the Democrat Party declared war on the majority of its members. The Left took control of the party sometime in 2007 in a palace coup that that had been planned since 2004 by Donna Brazile and Howard Dean. The first target of attack, before the Left turned their guns on America itself in 2009, was middle-class, working, blue collar, regular Americans who had been Democrats their whole lives.
Namely: Clinton voters. The Jacksonian Democrats I talk a lot about.
You would also know them as the Reagan Democrats.
The Left hates us.
The Left hated the Clintons for taking the party to the center because that’s what we wanted the Democrat Party to be.
Obama’s election was not about Obama…he is just the gift-wrapping of the turd the Left delivered unto America. The real goal of 2008 was to allow the Left to take over the country and wreck its economic institutions so it would be damaged enough for the Left to take permanent, dictatorial control. Obama was just the willing idiot with the ego massive enough to go along with all this as the poster boy just so he could score all the material perks of the presidency.
Only a small fraction of moderate/conservative Clinton Democrats actively called themselves PUMAs in 2008, but since the DNC took the nomination from HRC and gave it to Obama a vast majority of the politically connected Clintonians have been maneuvering behind the scenes to bring everyone on “The List” down.
It was revelatory running into Max because he confirmed all the suspicions I’ve been having. Just like with the anti-Princess Caroline movement in New York, this is not something that’s being coordinated by the Clintons. It’s not something that’s being done in their name and it’s not something that’s a revenge for HRC not becoming president.
That’s why this is so hard for the media to see or understand.
But what’s happening is that everyone who was sickened by the ACORN/SEIU/Black Panthers/Obama tactics of 2008 has said “f*** you” to the Democrat Party and continues to do whatever they can to doom Obama Democrats.
If you supported Obama, then you gave tacit approval to call anyone who opposed him a racist.
If you endorsed Obama, then you agreed with his voter fraud tactics.
If you voted for Obamacare, then you believe in the Leftist strongarm, unconstitutional, profligate spending policies.
If you did nothing to stop the Obama supporters’ attacks on Clinton people, and then Obama’s attacks on the nation, then you need to be removed from office.
There are very high profile former Democrats like Lynn Forester de Rothschild who used to write massive checks to the DNC who refuse to ever do anything like that again. This trickles down to regular people who used to give $25-100 a year to the DNC. No more. Never again.
The media, when they talk about this, claims it’s people still being mad that we HRC supporters did not get our way in 2008…but they miss the fact that a psychological change has happened that precludes any of these alienated former Dems from coming back.
The damage Obama did to the party in 2008, especially by using race-baiting as a weapon, is still not clearly seen.
This is never going to heal.
The Left, in its zeal to use Daily Kos, DemocraticUnderground, and other entities to call everyone under the sun a racist permanently alienated millions and millions of people from the Democrat fold.
It might have won them the nomination…with George Soros’ market crash in September 2008 securing the election…but it created an unseen, behind the scenes army of former Democrat loyalists who are actively working to bring the party down…by undermining the electability of all the Obama operatives on “The List”.
I believe, starting November 3rd, this is only going to heat up…culminating in all-out Democrat Civil war in 2012…with a massive purge of the Left between 2012 and 2014…and a Democrat Party in shambles still too weak to win the White House in 2016, 2020, or maybe even 2022.
I can’t see myself ever voting Democrat again.
Neither can Max, except for the candidates he directly works for or knows personally (which is just voting for your friend).
The media can discount people like us all they want — but a sports analogy would be like Babe Ruth suddenly hating baseball, doing everything he could to take down the game, and taking every opportunity available to him to remove the sport from existence.
THAT is what the DNC did in 2008 — it turned millions and millions of lifelong, politically active, loyal, baseball-loving Babe Ruths into people who want to put Major League Baseball out of business permanently.
It’s going to be YEARS before the media catches up with what’s going on.
But you heard this here first.
Simon Says, Part Two
I think it was last year when we told you the story of Simon, an Australian businessman in his 40s living here in Chicago, who has a thing for my friend Sebastian, and is a nice guy 95% of the time, but there’s this dark, nasty, virulently unhinged misogynistic side to him that just explodes — and it’s fixated largely on Governor Palin.
Since Simon knows almost nothing about her save for what is said on MSNBC or by Tina Fey, 60, in one of her “comedy” routines, it’s not really Governor Palin who Simon hates…it’s women. The Governor is just the latest in what I’m sure is a long line of figures Simon focuses these feelings on…before her, Simon might have hated Hillary Clinton. Maybe in the 90s he hated Ann Richards in Texas. He’s railed against Margaret Thatcher to us, in various tangents off his Palin-hate diatribes, so in the 80s he most definitely hated the Iron Lady.
I think Simon has a real problem with women in elected office, and he makes this opinion known.
On our last encounter with him, we were having a nice conversation with Simon talking about Australia, because none of us here know very much about the country, despite the great affection we have for it and the people there. But, Simon derailed the nice time we were having talking to him a few months ago by schizophrenically puffing up, going red in the face, and blurting out how much he hates Governor Palin, thinks she’s a “c***”, and wants to “rape her out back so that maybe she’d learn something”.
Well, we never let things like that stand against any woman in our presence, so Simon got the brunt force of a Hurricane Julia Sugarbaker and a long lecture on the inappropriate use of words like c***, b****, and rape when so casually applied and aggressively directed at women. Simon didn’t even know what the word misogyny is, let alone appreciate what a misogynist he was…which is kind of like one of those weird birds in the Lincoln Park Zoo not knowing the Latin scientific name for itself on its cage or realizing what people outside the glass called it…content only to screech naked and leave messy droppings wherever it goes.
So it is with Simon.
Well, last night at Sidetrack I was out asking people what they were planning for Halloween, for an article I’m writing about costume ideas this year. I actually learned to turn something I don’t like to my great advantage, where I pull out my little notebook and pen and people invariably ask “What are you doing? What are you writing?” because they find it so odd someone is still using paper. When I have my phone out, I could be typing on that all day without a single person saying boo, but the paper and pen always, without fail, gets someone to approach and question me. Last night I started using those approaches to ask those people what they were going to be for Halloween, what other ideas they’ve been hearing from people, and what trends they were seeing in pop culture for costumes. I probably talked to 50 people, easily, and I never once had to go up to anyone — they all came over to me. It was revelatory. I realized I could probably use this same little trick going forward, not just for Halloween costumes, but for everything I write about. Instead of being off-put by people asking “What are you writing?” I should answer with “I got an idea for a story I’m doing on Rahm Emanuel running for Mayor. Say, do you have an opinion on that?” and seize the opportunity to get more on-the-ground opinion from strangers to expand my personal take on things.
Since the Halloween costume bit was working so well for me, and I was getting some great ideas from people, I was in a really good mood so when I saw Simon sitting at a table by the window, looking out onto Halsted and the throngs of people in their party clothes weaving around cabs and valeted cars, and he waived, I smiled and went over to say hello…letting bygones be bygones and being polite.
Life is too short not to forgive, even if I don’t necessarily FORGET.
Simon must have felt bad about the dressing down we gave him over the rape comment he made, because when I saw him I didn’t bring it up at all but the first things out of his mouth were mumbles to the effect of “You know, I don’t talk like that, I was just drunk and…”. I spared him this bit and told him that was a long time ago and he seemed to be genuinely sorry, so let’s talk about something else. I asked him what he was going to be for Halloween, but he said he wasn’t planning on anything because he works 80 hours a week and is too exhausted to do fun things like that.
Simon’s some sort of investment/financial guy. I never care what people do for a living so even if they tell me it just flies right out of my head. I don’t care how people make money, or if they have any money to speak of at all. I’ve had big corporate jobs that paid a lot of money, and I’ve spent the last few years struggling as a freelancer making a very small fraction of what I used to, and I seem able to make do with whatever I have just by adjusting my expectations and addressing needs before discovering myriad wants. Oddly enough, the people I tend to like the most in Boystown have always been the artists, dancers, actors, writers, musicians, drag queens, bartenders, etc. (what my friend Althea calls “circus folk”) who never have much of anything but who are always interesting and happy, where their 9-5 jobs don’t define them and their “work” is really the things they are passionate about and truly live for.
Simon is clearly the opposite, and I pity him.
There he was, alone, pounding back Heinekens at Sidetrack, off to himself in the near deserted Cherry Bar section, still in his work shirt and tie while everyone else was rocking fun Halloween tees and even a costume here or there, mid-October.
“Are you going to a funeral after this?,” I asked him, yanking on his tie a little.
“Crikey, I just came from work, I was there until 10. Same thing every day,” he said, while I marveled at a real-life, non-Steve Irwin-costumed use of the word “Crikey”.
Simon explained he’s at the office every day from 8 or 9am until 10pm daily, including Saturday, and that he puts in 80 hour weeks because he has “mortgages to pay”. He has a condo here in Chicago, another house in Sydney, and a beach house somewhere else in Australia that was very cutesy-tunes-sounding and completely impossible for me to remember (Strawberry Bay? Kickapoo Springs? Starseller’s Guigglybooabingbong?).
The man is clearly not happy, because he has to work so much, just to stay afloat on his mortgages on two continents. I’m sure 80% of the guys in the bar would have been impressed with that real estate portfolio but I just thought Simon was crazy for getting himself into that mess. Why kill yourself for three homes when you are a single man — who has not been back to Australia in three years? I just don’t understand the logic in that. ”It’s an investment” is what I’ve been told by other people who overextend themselves like this, to which I reply, “So is your life…which you aren’t living because you are driving yourself into an early grave trying to keep afloat financing three homes, two of which you haven’t been to in years. Why not right-size your life, workload, and ambitions and enjoy yourself before you are 80 wishing you had done it all differently?”.
I started to understand where Simon’s anger came from…and found out it wasn’t directed just at Governor Palin or other women. It was this frustration he carries from having to work so hard to stay afloat, which bottles up all day at work and then gets unleashed in the bar after 8,9, maybe 10 Heinekens.
Simon hates the gay scene in Sydney, which he called “gross”, and described what I think a lot of you out there think the gay community is — because it’s the seedy depiction sometimes shown on TV and in bad movies. Boystown is actually not like this at all; we’re really the bright and colorful side of the rainbow, where Simon described Sydney as being the shadowy, Chrystal Meth-addled, tweeky negaverse…where guys are strung out on drugs, waste their lives playing video poker all day in dive bars, and hook up randomly with complete disregard for HIV/AIDS, devil may care, world be damned, to Hell with themselves.
Simon said a bar like Sidetrack, glistening, polished chrome, expensive wood floors and paneling, no drugs, attractive and nice people, just doesn’t exist in Sydney, because gay guys apparently aren’t centered in reality there. I have to say, while 95% of the guys I encounter do parrot the Left’s talking points without question, 99% of them have their acts together in terms of taking care of themselves, having careers, and wanting stability in their lives. Most guys come to Chicago from various states in the Midwest, and I think we all bring that upbringing with us…even if the vast majority blossom into Anderson Cooper/Rachel Maddow acolytes who spout off nonsense and unwarranted hate towards conservatives not realizing the condo they want to buy, the business they want to start, the life plan they have in front of them would be greatly enhanced by voting conservatives in office (since they, themselves, if they thought about it were economically conservative no matter how Chris Matthews tells them they have to vote on TV).
Apparently, Sydney’s crowd isn’t like this at all, so Simon waxed on a little about why he likes Sidetrack so much, and why Boystown is so much better to him.
But then, Simon being Simon, it got ugly…which I’ve come to realize is just how he expresses himself.
After the last sip of his last Heineken of the night, Simon tore into the gays in Sydney, calling them all sorts of names for their behavior, and using language so salty even hours later I feel like I need my blood pressure checked. I won’t repeat any of it, but let’s just say he used the gay equivalents of c*** and b**** and the rest, directed at the Sydney gays.
Then, because his boiler was lit and he was rearing to go, he had to take a slam at Governor Palin, just to goad me, and called her a c*** again.
I cut him off and told him that I would not stand there and let him call her that, and reminded him of the last conversation my friends and I had with him about this matter. I told him it was nice talking to him and that I enjoyed hearing a little about Australia, but that I don’t think he learned what misgoyny is because he keeps using the “c-word” for women when I know for a fact at this office he would never be allowed to call anyone black a n*****…so why does he let c*** fly so fast and loose?
“Because women are c**** and she’s the biggest c**** of all, that f***ing b****. And I can say c****, b****, and f*** all I want in the office because it’s true. I just can’t say the n-word because this is America and I’d be shot probably”.
Last call came right about then and it was time for me to go, so I let things end on that note.
I told Simon not to work so hard and asked him again to think about the way he talked about women, because I know he has a mother he visits back in England, in Liverpool where she lives, and wonder what she’d think if she heard him talk the way he does…about women he doesn’t even know, or know much about…just because they’re the opposite gender to him.
“She probably wouldn’t like it much, right,” he said.
I walked down the stairs and headed towards the door as I saw Simon belly up to the bar for one last Heineken, the only guy in the place in a shirt and tie, looking so sad, drinking and working himself to death and carrying around so much hate and anger inside him — and for what?
He owns three homes on two continents, but is single with no prospects and fairly destined to live the rest of his life alone (as I can’t imagine anyone putting up with the caustic, volcanic outbursts he seems to have most nights after his 12 hour days at work…which, when I think about it, explain why I never, ever see him talking to anyone in the bar…he’s just always by himself, angry, drinking).
He probably makes more money than I could ever imagine but when does he have time to spend any of it?
He spends time in what he admits is one of the best damn bars on the planet, but he doesn’t ever look like he’s having fun and casts such a negative aura that I swear the guy dims the leon and dulls the lights around him wherever he goes, like he just sucks that positivity to oblivion into the little black hole tucked somewhere into his starched white shirt.
I know every time I talk to Simon he’s going to call Governor Palin a c***. He’ll probably get jabs in at Hillary, Margaret Thatcher, and maybe a random assortment of other historical women as well, not only because he realizes this is unacceptable to me but because the guy has a kind of misogynistic Tourette’s that’s just part of his DNA.
This isn’t going to change until he fears being fired for using the c-word or the b-word as much as he lives in terror of losing his job over the n-word. That’s the sad fact of America today — where it’s okay to direct irrational gender based hate at women, with no consequences ever handed down to that by CEOs who are straight off the set of Mad Men, though it’s 2010 and that’s the most over-hyped show in a generation.
The things Simon says are not just the manifestation of the ugliness, anger, and frustration inside him, but a reflection on a corporate America that allows this to take shape against women…fueled by a lamestream media that delights in these attacks against females.
Crikey.
Delaware on-the-ground report
Here’s an interesting email we got from a reader whose sister lives in Delaware. It’s anecdotal but insightful…and it gets into some of that “teach them a lesson” garbage that we keep telling you is a major mental defect and seemingly genetic flaw in Republicans. Whenever these people say they are going to “teach anyone a lesson”, the lesson they are teaching is that they really want Democrats to win. That’s what not voting, casting write-in ballots, and playing other games actually does. It hands the election to Democrats…and in Delware’s case, Republicans doing this will send an admitted and proud Marxist to the Senate to represent them.
It’s foolishness to such an extreme that I can only call it mental illness.
Here’s Sandi writing in with what she’s learned about Delaware from her sister:
Dear HillBuzz,
I am a registered Democrat in PA, but think more like a Republican. Registered Democrat because if you ever really wanted a voice on who got into local politics around here the place to be was the Primaries in May. Everybody is a Democrat it seems, so for school board you have a choice. For the most part, if you run Republican, you win the primary cause nobody else is running. So to make an impact, you need to be registered Democrat. Small town.
Anyway, my sister grew up here as well but moved to Delaware about 18 years ago. Wilmington. She is a registered Republican. I talked to her tonight because you asked for information about what is on the ground in Delaware and from the discussion I had with my sister, it is not good. Basically, the Republicans are mad that Mike Castle did not win. My sister says she will be writing in Mike Castle’s name even though he asked not to have that. From how my sister talks, this race has absolutely NOTHING to do with politics. She says that Delaware is divided by 2 groups the “lowly, slowly” south Delaware and the North. She is from the more affluent North. Her husband makes good money. The North Republicans are very upset that “they”, (and she couldn’t tell me who she thought “they” were except the “stupid, stupid Tea Party”) would put forward a “pretty woman with straight teeth and no background”. “They” think the people of Delaware are stupid and will only vote for somebody “pretty”. She thinks if “they” would have put up somebody with a background that was ugly she might have voted for that person, but feels she is being “played” by “them”. I asked to what purpose she thinks she is being “played” and what she thinks “they” want. She doesn’t know, but she is not going to be “played”. She thinks the state of Delaware is now being called a “laughingstock” because they put up such a bad candidate when Mike Castle was sooooo great.
My sister works for a woman whose husband is a public defender and she (the boss) and her husband are also very upset that Mike Castle did not win. Cause “he is a good guy”. When I asked about his politics and would he vote with the democrats, she said “Castle was his own man”. I asked if she thought he would vote for Cap and Tax, she didn’t know, didn’t really care. I asked if she liked the way the country was going. She said no, she dislikes Obama. She did say she thinks Obama is a socialist. She does not like Socialism, but she just could not put it together that Coons and Obama would take us deeper into Socialism, she just doesn’t want to be “played”. She and the people in her circle dislike O’Donnell very much. Thinks she is dumb. She believes only college educated people should be in politics. I am thinking she is an “elitist”, but you know what and not that you care, but I find it very interesting cause, my sister, would give the shirt off her back for any one. She believes in hard work. She believes in the “values” of the conservative. I just do not get it and she got tired of trying to explain it to me. I asked her to please vote for Christine as I cannot afford Cap and Tax and she said no, she is going to “show them”. That seems to be the mood. Politics, the country, values don’t matter, just a personal I am not going to be “played” by “them”.
On another note, if you have read this far, I found this interesting. She HATES the Tea Party. She thinks it is a group of petulant people who can no longer afford to “get their toenails painted by a stranger”. Actually she feels the down fall of America rests in the fact that so many people feel ”entitled” to have their toenails painted by a stranger. I think she may actually have a point there. I asked what exactly the Tea Party has done that is so awful. She thinks “somebody” is pulling the strings. She thinks all the Tea Party wants to do is throw out the illegal immigrants. She is very illegal immigrant. Oh and that reminds me she also said that you need to go to college to understand economics and stuff. I found that hilarious. She is basically a smart woman, but is not into politics and therefore doesn’t really have solid opinions about anything except she loooooved Mike Castle. Loves the way he is “moderate”. Loved voting for Democrat with an R beside his name, that last part is my opinion.
Anyway not sure if you will get time to read this, but I found the information interesting, thought you might too.
Sandi
Saturday Open Thread: October 16th, 2010
What’s on your minds this Saturday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
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Are you in any of the following states:
(1) Delaware
(2) Nevada
(3) California
(4) Alaska
(5) New York
If so, or if you know anyone in those states, can you take the time to write us an email about what you are seeing and hearing on that ground — or what you are getting firsthand from people there?
Is anecdotal evidence matching what the media and polls are telling us in those states?
This is a big help to us…so we appreciate any inside input you can give us.
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