Liberals are too damn nice.
Nice guys always get the shaft.

Remember the line about the guy who mentioned one day, 2000 years ago, how nice it would be if everyone got along and so they nailed him to a tree?

Opening of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Once, Neal Boortz said that other than tax cuts, the Bush presidency was a total disaster. In the last year or so, he's been totally behind Bush because, he claims, of the war on terror.

The war on terror conservatives scare me, because it seems to me that not only do other issues have lower priority, they have no priority.

A nice bunch, indeed.

Gee, Bush spends us into an oblivion and wants to make big changes via his policies and appointees to the supreme court.

Apparently his definition of "conservative" is a bit skewed...

How about fiscally irresponsible fundamentalist?

I like how he screws our kids right in their tight little futures...

What this guy says.

http://fuckthesouth.com

Y'know, Gunther, I was born in Kentucky and have lived in North Carolina since I was 3...

But www.fuckeverybodyinthesouthexceptforapostropher.com doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Meh, I would just like to point out that while the South as a region went for Bush like a dog to rancid shit... There was more voter suppression across South Carolina than any Republicans I know can remember. The South is not quite the bastion of conservatism that people claim it is... North Carolina, GA, TN, etc. went for Clinton... The South went for Carter after all (remember him, nice guy... liberal Christian farmer, Nuclear Engineer from the Navy...). Check this out: http://www.massinc.org/commonwealth/new_map_exclusive/beyond_red_blue.html

I'm sure the author of FTS enjoyed himself writing that screed, but he does display a rather sketchy knowledge of history. He ignores, for example, the contributions of southerners like Washington, Madison, and Jefferson to the American Revolution.

So, if he wants to throw the south out of the Union, does that mean that Clinton, Carter, and Carville have to go, too?

-jcr

And remember, anytime you get 9 random North Carolinians in a room, 5 of them voted for Bush but 4 of them for Kerry. And we shot down the young, handsome and terrifyingly right-wing Republican gubernatorial candidate by a 20 point margin. And the Democrats now control both houses of the state legislature. And Erskine just barely lost to Burr. The further down the Republican ticket you get in NC, the worse the Republicans did, in fact. All they did was hold their percentage from 2000 in the presidential race. In every other race, the Republicans - even the winners - did worse than they did in the last comparable election.*

To sit around jerking one's Yankee dick all day and ululating something along the lines of FUCK THE SOUTH AYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYI is even more ignorant than the very dregs of "intellect" that might be scraped from the very back of their brains by my most backwards mountain relatives.

* Given that Dems gained outright control in the House and widened the margin in the State Senate, I'm treating the legislative races as a whole rather than pretending to know a damn thing about the individual races - the one exception being that a newly outed lesbian beat Ballantine's law partner to take his State Senate seat, giving us our first openly gay state legislator. Sweet!

Feeling spicy today, eh?

Wow. All I can say is chill out. We New Yorkers have been the target of irrational screeds by people from other parts of the country since there's been a New York, but Manhattan's tourist hotels are still chock full of folks from Iowa and Georgia come to gawk at the big buildings and speedy natives.

Now I live in Northern California, and my new people are just as reviled as my old. Hippie stereotypes, anyone?

Personally, I really like North Carolina, and if economics justified it, I'd move to Asheville or Raleigh-Durham in a Silcon Valley minute. So just relax, keep gently nudging your neighbors, and I'm sure that the good people of the Tarheel State will start voting Blue on the national level soon enough.

Hey man - I know poop gets spread evenly at every opportunity, but c'mon. Blaming Bush's win on The South is like shaking a fist at the moon for its phases. We're taking our victories where we can for now, and in the meantime some jerk deciding we're more to blame than, I dunno, Ohio or Missouri or Nevada just isn't right. When there's a website called fuckthewestminusthecoast.com then I'll chill. Until then, keep in mind that it's just a built-in part of the Southern mindset that we don't take lightly such "friendly jabs" from other parts. Up in the mountains (Asheville, to be almost exact), we weren't raised to smile and nod when someone insulted our mama. That's our job. ;)

That said, I don't disagree with a word of the non-geographical content of the site. But my North Carolina pride flinches when I read it.

Do you think I enjoy the commercials where the cowboys heap scorn on the salsa from New York City? Let's just see those guys make it through a ride on the J train.

Conservatives do love to claim the victim status regardless of their current (shortlived, hopefully) hegemony. I wonder if the fundy christians learned it from the Republicans or vice versa?

Great list; although a few of the authors' names did make me retch when I read them...

That list is rather cherry-picked, don't you think? I have half a mind to generate a similar list of liberal books. Let's see... let's start with Al Franken and Michael Moore...

Give it a shot, Moon God. Betcha can't do it. If you were thinking of starting with Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them, though, you do know the title is a parody of an Ann Coulter title, yes? Still, let's see your list.