Archive for October, 2011
Iowa Grassroots Activists: Ron Paul Would Beat Mitt Romney & Win Iowa Caucuses
Things are looking grim for Mittens Romneycare and the Cocktail Party GOP Establishment in Iowa.
GOP Frontrunner Ron Paul beats Mittens Romneycare in this 15th edition of the Iowa 2012 Power Rankings, which has the top tier candidates listed as:
- Ron Paul
- Mittens Romneycare
- Herman Cain
- Rick “I Heart Illegals” Perry
- Rick Santorum
In a story published at IowaIndependent.com, a panel of politicos that included grassroots activists, state political reporters, consultants, and various political wonks has concluded that GOP Frontrunner Ron Paul would win the Iowa Caucuses if they were held today (today being October 17, 2011, when the story was published.)
The author of the story seems less than thrilled with this outcome, which I get used to, as a Ron Paul voter.
The Texas congressman surges to the top of our rankings for the first time, but not without caution. “If the caucuses were held today, [Paul] would win because he’s the only candidate with an excited base and an excellent organization,” a panelist noted.
“However, the caucuses being held January 3 could hurt him because a lot of his young voters will still be on Christmas break.”
The panelists have given props to the Paul organization for some time, and there is no denying that the Texan has a core group of supporters that are incredibly loyal and excited. The question, at least for our panelists, has always been if there were enough supporters to compete against a candidate that drew large swaths of social conservatives (i.e., Huckabee in 2008).
A couple of very interesting observations.
First of all, I thought Barack Hussein Obama owned the youth vote. Hasn’t the Democrat-Controlled Media told us for years that only greedy old rich people vote GOP?
Ron Paul at the Univ. of Iowa
Not according to University of Iowa senior John Twillman, chairman of the College Republicans. Last week, 1,000 college kids skipped Homecoming to attend a standing-room-only Ron Paul rally at the University of Iowa.
Twillman, who attends appearances by all Republican presidential candidates, noted,
“I think the Paul supporters — at least those I’ve seen — are much more passionate. They definitely have seen what almost four years of Barack Obama has done, and I think they will be more involved. I think they can see the real-life impacts of the policies that the President makes … So, I really think that college kids and young people in general will continue to support Ron Paul even more so than last time. I think they are already organized and I think they will get even more so and really turn out people for the caucus.”
Here’s the other interesting point.
“The biggest problem Romney has had in Iowa is the group of social conservatives that find him uniquely undesirable,” wrote a panelist. “Whether that is because of his religion or for other reasons, it doesn’t really matter because these are individuals who won’t simply not support him, but individuals who will actively pursue a strategy to prevent him from exiting Iowa with a victory. In the past that has meant some supporting a candidate they otherwise would not, just because they see an opportunity to elevate someone ahead of Romney.”
The grassroots can’t stand Mittens Romneycare. We (the grassroots) know it. The Cocktail Party GOP knows it. The Democrat-controlled media knows it. This is the first report I’ve seen that there are people actually working against Mittens on the ground in Iowa.
I know most of the people reading this are not libertarians. Most don’t believe that Ron Paul can win the nomination. But I would like to point out that candidates like Ron Paul keep the conversation focused where it is supposed to be (if you call yourself a conservative or Tea Party voter). If it weren’t for Ron Paul, would Cocktail Party GOP candidates be talking about throwing out the entire tax code? Would they be talking about the deficits? Would they be talking about the gold standard or sound money? Would they be talking about the Constitution or the 10th Amendment? Would they be talking about the Federal Reserve?
Of course not.
If you’re a conservative or Tea Party voter, you don’t have to vote for Ron Paul. But it’s better for all of us if he stays in the race if only to keep RINOs like Romneycare and Perry focused on what’s important.
NBC executives confident Obama will lose in 2012
You need to read between the lines on this one, but it’s pretty clear NBC executives are confident Obama will lose the 2012 election and that a Republican First Family will be living in the White House come January 2013.
Jon Lovett is one of Obama’s former speech writers – who left the Obama White House to write for sitcoms in Hollywood.
He just sold NBC an idea for a show about “a dysfunctional First Family” living in the White House; NBC made the unusual step of purchasing this pitch with a guaranteed commitment that the pilot will indeed air (or else NBC will have to pay Lovett a hefty penalty).
It’s unreasonable that Lovett has created a comedy show about a Democrat in the White House or that the show will be about a First Family bearing any similarities to the Obamas. Guys like Lovett, who are just starting their careers, do not make enemies in Democrat ranks by creating shows that lampoon Democrats. The Obamas seem to be especially grudge-holding by nature — and we all saw the Alinsky lengths Obama went to in 2008 to win office — so it’s ludicrous to believe Lovett would write a show that in any way contained characters resembling the Obamas.
This, to me, means Lovett and NBC are gearing up to mock the incoming 45th President and his family…who will be Republicans, and thus fair game for NBC to feature as dysfunctional in a sitcom.
The pilot commitment would not have been paid if NBC didn’t feel the next First Family would be Republican…since the show would begin airing presumably in the Fall of 2012, right around the time the new Republican president is elected.
NBC is clearly betting on Obama’s loss and trying to get this show in development so it can capitalize on the political change that’s coming…and also give the Left something to watch where NBC will make fun of the incoming administration so that Leftists don’t feel so bad about Obama’s loss.
Do you have another take on this?
Great Merciful Zeus: Michael Moore calls this “the final year of Obama’s presidency”.
This is a big deal, I think, because it’s a threshold the Left has never breached before in my knowledge: Michael Moore calls this “the final year of Obama’s presidency”.
Previously, people like Moore on the Left have always referred to this as “Obama’s first term”, implying he is guaranteed for re-election in 2012 (or, even, for as many years as he wants, Constitution be damned).
When I read the headline about Moore criticizing Obama as a colossal disappointment, I assumed Moore would still be using the Left’s chosen convention that “this is the final year of Obama’s first term”.
That’s not how Moore couches things, though. He talks about this being the “last year of Obama’s presidency”.
This is important because it means the Left has already resigned itself to defeat in some measure. That does not mean 2012 won’t be an epic battle with the Left mobilizing its goon squads like never before to secure Obama that second term…but it does mean that those on the far Left won’t have their whole hearts in the effort as I would have expected.
If the Left does not believe Obama will win in 2012, that could mean wealthy Leftists like Moore in Hollywood keep their pocketbooks (or in Moore’s case, his orange-Cheetos-smudged purse) closed and don’t go out of their way for the Obama campaign. They’ll still make their required appearances, of course, just as they did for John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, and Jimmy Carter…but they won’t be too visible since they don’t want to be tainted by Obama’s loss (or blamed that they got in his way).
I’m stunned Moore is at this point this soon.
He really has given up on an Obama victory.
That means it’s even more important to ensure someone other than Mittens Romneycare becomes the Republican nominee because now is not the moment in history to serve up a mediocre “Obama-Lite” when even the most ardent Obama acolytes from 2008 are betting so soundly against him.
Paula Deen said Michelle Obama “would not stop eating during commercial breaks” when she was on “Paula’s Party” TV show
[ H/t The National Enquirer for photo above...purchase the third week of October issue of the Enquirer for full story ]
This is hilarious.
You have to read The National Enquirer – and remember it’s one of the few papers out there that is 100% correct about 50% of the time — and learn about Michelle Obama’s gluttonous behavior during her appearance on “Paula’s Party”.
Paula Deen’s calling Michelle Antoinette out as a hypocrite for scolding Americans not to eat any of the foods that Michelle Antoinette herself apparently can’t stop eating.
Deen says that during commercial breaks of her show she couldn’t get Michelle Antoinette to stop eating any of the supposedly “unhealthy” fried foods that Deen had on the table. From the tone of Deen’s remarks, it feels like production crew members were in danger of losing fingers, if not whole limbs, if they tried to pull some of these dishes away from the woman living in the White House who is on a personal crusade against other people’s obesity.
I still have a gut feeling that Michelle Antoinette is going to be the Obamas’ real downfall in 2012. On the campaign trail, she’s going to say or do something that gives Obama his indelible “Jimmy Carter and the Rabbit” meme. It’s going to be a “let them eat cake” type statement that drops out of her mouth unexpectedly somewhere, similar to the “I’m proud of America for the first time in my adult life” statement she made — twice in one day — in Wisconsin during the Democrat Primaries in 2008.
As the current First Lady, Michelle Antoinette sticks mainly to highly choreographed and controlled appearances on TV shows where producers edit her to present herself as well as possible. She was great on Sesame Street and Extreme Home Makeover…and even better on The Simpsons, where she was a cartoon character voiced by Angela Bassett and strangely drawn to resemble Mr. T. more than anyone else.
But, in person, before a live audience, speaking extemporaneously, Michelle Antoinette’s true feelings about Americans often slip out.
According to the article in the Enquirer (which was the one publication to report on John Edwards’ affair, love child, and campaign funds scandal), being called out on the hypocrisy surrounding her “Eat Healthy” book and her “Let’s Move” crusade against other people’s obesity apparently drives Michelle Antoinette crazy.
I have little doubt that when the campaign season heats up, and Michelle Antoinette’s dispatched for appearances coast to coast, that she’ll make another “I’m proud of America for the first time in my adult life” remark that will perfectly capture the Obamas’ shared feelings about America and Americans.
I also can’t help thinking this will involve food in some way…and could even happen during her upcoming “Healthy Eating” book tour.
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UPDATE: It just occurred to me how this is all going to play out.
I started thinking about the campaign season, and all the appearances candidates have to make at local restaurants, street fairs, and other “Must Do” spots in the towns they visit. Candidates just HAVE to eat a Philly with velveeta (not Swiss, like John Kerry ate) in Philadelphia. In Chicago, they HAVE to eat Deep Dish somewhere. In your town, it might be a special sandwich or a giant ice cream sundae or whatever it is the locals deem visitors MUST HAVE when they come to town.
Candidates are always photographed eating these local treats…and the candidates (and their spouses) who refuse to partake in these high-calorie meals are excoriated for it.
During the 2004 campaign, Thereza Heinz embarrassed John Kerry on a campaign stop when she not only wouldn’t eat the town’s “famous chili”, but she admitted she had no idea what chili in fact was. She’d never heard of it, and thought it was some sort of “chilly” dish, like ice cream. This, obviously, scored no points for the Kerry campaign with the locals.
What is Michelle Antoinette going to do when she rolls into town with her “Healthy Eating” cook book in one hand…and a campaign-required, massive Philly cheesesteak sandwich or deep dish pizza in the other?
She really can’t win no matter what she does in these situations.
One option is to refuse to eat the foods offered up to her, which will offend the locals.
Another choice would be to avoid campaign stops where she’ll be proffered these fatty foods…but that will make the locals feel dissed, as in, “Oh, Miss Fancy came to town but wouldn’t have a hoagie at Fat Tony’s Hoagie Emporium. But, Gloria Cain came and had one. And Anita Perry had one. But not Miss Fancy!”.
If she eats these foods on the campaign trail, she’ll be called a hypocrite because of all the scorn she’s heaped on Americans in her books and her “Let’s Move” crusade against other people’s obesity.
There’s really no winning for the Obama campaign on this…and it’s something they 100% did to themselves.
Michael Barone coins the term “global warming religion” in a must-read piece in The Examiner
Please read Michael Barone’s latest essay, Public Cools to Global Warming Alarmism.
For a long time, I’ve called the global warming alarmists “Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming Cult”, but I like Barone’s “global warming religion” term better. It’s easier to use and really drives home the point that the Left has created a new religion for itself chock full of all the things the Left supposedly hates about actual religion.
Barone notes that the AGW cultists loudly advocate the purchasing of carbon credits in much the same way that corrupt Church officials in medieval times encouraged buying “indulgences” to offset any sins committed by the faithful. This is – exactly – what the AGW cultists are doing with their carbon credit scheme, but instead of the indulgence treasure heading to the Vatican, it’s going to people like Al Gore who conceived this modern day indulgence racket.
Barone does a great job of making other connections between the Left’s new cult and the medieval Catholic Church.
Something he doesn’t address is the Inquisition, which fits in very well with any discussion of the Left’s methods and means. The Left has long cultivated and operated goon squads programmed to annihilate heretics and threats to the Left, particularly those who speak out against the AGW cult and Al Gore’s carbon credits/indulgences scheme.
I think Barone’s piece will play a big part in arguments to come against the Left; it’s worth your time and full of material that’s ready-made for the big turning point that’s upon us in terms of ending the AGW cult completely in the next year or so.
One of the best campaign ads I have ever seen: Herman Cain’s Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em Robots ad
He had me at the Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em Robots.
He got me really fired up with the nod to Rocky at the end.
I like Herman Cain a lot, and not just because he’s the only candidate who finds a way to work 80s band Survivor into his campaign commericals.
He comes off as someone I actually want to know and work for, and not just someone I’d vote for. I wonder every day what interesting thing Herman Cain is going to say, where he’s going to be, and what he’s going to do. I eagerly anticipate his campaign ads because I know they will make me smile or think, or both.
Can’t say the same thing about anyone else in contention for the 2012 GOP nomination.
Can you?
Hilarious. Foolish media and Cocktail Party GOP fall right into Herman Cain’s trap with his “Mark Block Smoking Ad”
On a very personal level, I really like Herman Cain.
First off, he reminds me of a guy named Howard I worked with fifteen years ago when I was in college. Howard was the Food & Beverage manager while I was the Security manager at a hotel on third shift; he was, like Cain, also a singer in his church and was known for always having a different take on things from what everyone else on the executive team was saying. Our General Manager at the time was a complete buffoon who would fit in quite well with the Cocktail Party GOP crowd (strangely, the guy kind of resembled Jon Huntsman in a way). Howard and I ended up being the only two people at the table who would tell the GM something was stupid during a staff meeting if either of us knew whatever the GM wanted to do on a whim would be a complete and utter disaster. I always knew that if I spoke up about something, Howard would have my back, and he’d pepper his remarks with interesting things to say of his own that really got people’s attention. To this day, Howard remains one of my favorite people I have ever known.
I’ve never met Herman Cain, but this is how he comes across to me as a candidate. Like Howard, Herman Cain doesn’t claim to know everything or to be infallible (the way Barack Obama does, with disastrous results) but he sure knows how to speak truth to power and surround himself with people who know exactly what they are doing and can be led by him to solve large problems. I like Cain’s track record as a business executive turning around failing franchises and being so good at what he did that he was made the CEO of a large company. I also like that instead of the usual, foolish Cocktail Party GOP establishment consultants Cain picks oddballs and outsiders to run his campaign. As an outsider oddball myself, I appreciate the potential in this, since Cain’s campaign will be the most unconventional of all the candidates. Since convention over the last thirty years has gotten us where we are today, I think “unconventional” is a good thing.
I love how the media and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment alike have done exactly what Herman Cain wanted them to do regarding the campaign ad above.
It’s a cheap, little ad thrown together for almost nothing, with Herman Cain’s chief of staff Mark Block talking mildly into a camera…and then smoking a cigarette at the end. That cigarette was bait…so that Cain’s campaign could get free air time in the media as various fools went on about Mark Block smoking and how terrible and odd it was.
Chances are, few people have ever heard of Mark Block before this. I admit I had never heard this man’s name before either (but I think he very much resembles Carl Monday — a local reporter who dresses up in trench coats to solve mysteries on Channel 19 in Cleveland; if you are an evildoer in the Northeast Ohio general vicinity, you must live in terror of Carl Monday knocking on your door).
I can’t name a single person working for any of the other GOP candidates, but I now know who Mark Block is. And I kind of like him, in a Carl Monday sort of way, because he’s certainly not a Cocktail Party-approved consultant. I also think Block looks and acts like a lot of people who will be voting in the Iowa Caucus next year…many of whom are either smokers or are people who don’t like it when the establishment and media tell them they can’t do something (such as smoke in a campaign ad for no apparent reason).
I believe Cain’s intent is to get the media and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment talking about how terrible smokers are or how ridiculous Block looked doing this. The net result of that will be a lot of people in the early primary and caucus states feeling alienated by the media and the Cocktail Party establishment and taking another look at Herman Cain as a result.
I have to admit that I still don’t know what Herman Cain’s end game really is…if he intends to really run for the presidency or if he’s in fact shooting for the VP slot.
I also don’t know if there’s any credence to some people’s fears that he’s really a stalking horse for Mittens Romneycare and that his intent is to prevent consolidation of the anti-Mittens voters so the Cocktail Party can have its way and foist “the Republican version of Michael Dukakis” onto Americans.
I do believe that someone Karl Rove hates is someone you should always support in a Republican primary season, and Rove has been vocal about his feelings against Cain. That’s another plus for Cain in my book, since Rove and the rest of the Cocktail Party establishment crowd are all about maintaining their hold on power. They seem to know that if Cain’s elected, he won’t allow business as usual, and that’s a good thing for Americans. Bad for the consultants and other establishment types, though.
I seem to like Herman Cain more and more each day. He’s someone, like my friend Howard years ago, who I’d like to work with and he comes across as a boss I’d love to work for. He’s also someone I would be proud to call my President.
I really can’t wait for the Cain-Gingrich “Lincoln-Douglas” debate…aside from Halloween and Thanksgiving, it’s the biggest thing I am looking forward to this fall.
Hillbuzz Open Thread: October 25, 2011
Today in History:
2004 – Fidel Castro, Cuba‘s President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned. Meanwhile, in 2011, the foolish Louisiana state legislature used House Bill 195 to ban transactions using the American Dollar for second hand goods. I am waiting to see what that incompetent bumbler Bobby Jindal does about this. But after his inaction and dithering during the BP oil spill, I’m not expecting much from America’s chief Kenneth the NBC page impersonator. But I do expect craziness like banning cash transactions to happen in California, not Louisiana. Fools.
1983 – Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d’état. I bet if you’d ask any random person in the Occupy Wall Street crowd what Grenada is he’d say “the red stuff in a Shirley Temple”. I doubt they’d know who Shirley Temple is either.
1971 – The United Nations seated the People’s Republic of China and expelled the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations) Has the United Nations done anything good whatsoever since Eleanor Roosevelt died? Why on Earth does the United States still fund this unfunny comedy of errors?
1962 – Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at the UN proving Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba. Whenever I think of this, I remember being in school and my political science teacher turning on CNN to show us a live feed of Colin Powell at the UN holding up cartoon drawings of futuristic, transformable trailer trucks that he claimed Saddam Hussein had and was going to use on America. These drawings Powell had — and possibly even sketched himself — looked like the Transformers I played with as a kid. I sat there thinking, “Wow. In the 60s the Ambassador went to the UN with actual photos of things the Russians were up to, and now that fool Colin Powell as Secretary of State is claiming the Decepticons are in league with Saddam Hussein”. It was unreal. Still is.
1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. It’s always uplifting to read anything about the Resistance cells operating in fascist societies. No matter how oppressive a government is, or how aggressively its goon squads work to crush a Resistance, if regular people on the ground keep standing up to it in its own way the oppressors can’t hang on forever.
What’s happening in your part of the country?
What are people talking about in your town?
JustiaGate: The Obama Regime’s Latest Scandal Revealed
Obama Gladhands Moammar Gadhafi In Happier Times H/T SocialStudiesCanada
A valued Hillbuzz commentator noticed that terrorist and dictator deaths during the Obama Regime seem to occur when Teh Won most needs to distract the sheeple from his latest scandal.
Perhaps this week, it’s JustiaGate: apparently a deliberate attempt to make it difficult for journalists and voters to examine the issue of natural-born citizenship as it related to both Barack Hussein Obama and John McCain during the 2008 campaign.
As explained in this article from The Examiner,
Someone was incredibly busy in June 2008 working on an illegal front invisible to the public; searching and altering Supreme Court Cases published at Justia.com which cite the only case in American history - Minor v. Happersett (1875) – to directly construe Article 2 Section 1′s natural-born citizen clause in determining a citizenship issue as part of its holding and precedent. In this unanimous decision, the Supreme Court defined a “native or natural-born citizen” as a person born in the US to parents who were citizens; a definition which excludes from eligibility both Barack Obama and John McCain.
Emphasis added. H/T Alert Reader cate007.
Will the scandals never end?
The Spoiled Brats of OWS
This was written by my friend Leah in Los Angeles. I think people will find it interesting and thought-provoking. Leah has a unique perspective as you will see in this excellent piece.
The spoiled brats of OWS.
There is always a moment when an image is like a punch in the stomach – leaving me amazed and gasping for air. The whole phenomenon of OWS has been disgusting, the hatred, the anti-Semitism – the dirty hippies who have multiple higher education degrees but no job is up to their standards.
What really got me was the image of a gay kid hugging another man while holding up a sign that said: Gay Kids, don’t kill yourselves, kill your parents.
There in a nutshell is everything I hate about Gay Inc. As the parent of a gay young man – this hits me extra hard. Of course I know that there are parents out there that won’t accept their gay children – some literally kick them out of the house, others won’t acknowledge the gayness of their child and simply ignore that subject. But in this day and age, they are a minority and if gay kids are having an issue with their parents – maybe it’s time they looked at themselves before they rush to accuse their parents of ‘not accepting’ their lifestyle.
I haven’t met a single person who didn’t grapple with coming out. Being gay is being different, no one wants to be different, especially not teenagers. So the gay person goes through a period of soul searching, is this it? Is this just a phase? Will I grow out of this? At some point they realize that yes, this is it, they are gay, and they come to accept this fact about themselves. Usually they share this info first with close friends, then maybe a sibling. The parents are rarely the first to know.
By the time the kid or young adult comes out to his/her parents he is comfortable with himself. For most parents, it’s a bombshell. The child often demands full and complete acceptance from the parents – never giving them the luxury of time he had. Most parents want to reach that point – but it takes time – to adjust – to accept that their dreams of the future have just been shattered. Yes, we want our children to marry and give us grandchildren – despite all the hype – this is still a rarity in the gay community.
So the parents try, they do the best they can, but here is where the gay child fails. In many cases, gay= immature, narcissistic and self absorbed. The last thing the child will do is give his parents a chance – the same chance he gave himself – to gradually accept the situation. Any reservation, any sorrow at this news will be viewed as rejection.
And so the resentment gets deeper, at some point the parents give up – especially if the child no longer lives at home and there isn’t daily interaction. And the gay child builds up a wonderful narrative about the victimhood of his life because his parents don’t accept him 100%. To be honest, this is a normal adolescent stage – most people outgrow it – especially when they have children of their own and realize how difficult parenthood is. But most gays will never have children – let alone a real relationship with another human that lasts more than a month. So they are stuck in perpetual adolescence – hating their parents and of course wearing the badge of victim proudly.
The story that really sticks in my mind is the parents who graciously accept their son and his partner in their home as equals to the straight siblings. Yet this ungrateful man can only complain that his parents don’t really love him – since they are Republicans, they haven’t changed in every way to mirror him – so they are deeply flawed.
We as humans will never be perfect, as parents it is impossible. Yet most parents try their best, they acknowledge their mistakes, they are more flexible than anyone else in coming to terms with the curve balls that life throws our way. If the other side is so intractable – so demanding of perfection from others that they never expect from themselves – then the result is the poster seen at OWS. Of course I’m sure that sentiment resonated with many of the spoiled brats who are showing us the true face of anarchy – they all are the perpetual child – demanding to remain infants – with the adults taking care of all their needs – while giving them all the resources and freedoms to live like savage animals in our parks and streets.
Yes, I’m being very harsh here about the gay community. I have the luxury of coming to know many incredible gay men and women. I would love to think they are the silent majority, maybe they are. But Gay Inc (leadership, hate mail, anti Mormon protests) has done a yeoman’s job is giving us the impression that they aren’t. The hatred directed towards Mary Cheney for living her parent’s values is proof enough. I can’t think of a better example of a parent then Dick Cheney – yet the hatred towards him is legend. They have called upon Mary to renounce her family and embrace ‘the gay family’ – which to all appearances is what we see in OWS – filth, the hatred, the rapes and the violence.
The parent child relationship isn’t a one way street – calling for killing of parents just doesn’t fit in with the message of love and acceptance that Gay Inc is demanding but clearly isn’t willing to take on themselves.
Leah In Los Angeles.
Posted by Penny4HB
I do not have a gay child but my daughter has a number of wonderful close friends who are gay men. Two of these men grew up in Southern California and in both cases, their family has totally accepted and embraced their sons’ gay life. [One of them has a mother who told me she always hoped her son would be gay.] It’s possible that growing up gay in Southern California conveys an easier acceptance than other areas of our country. I don’t know. This entire OWS phenomenon is bringing back very bad memories of the 60s protests while I was in college. The only difference seems to be that in the 60s they were basically protesting the Vietnam War (though it morphed into protests against other issues, resulting in a lot of hate being exhibited then too, like today’s protests). I think those protests in the 60s ushered in the beginning of a social degradation in our country, and it seems that generation of hippies is still around, and have raised more generations of ungrateful hippies.
What do you think?
