"Think, baby. Think."

[urgk]

The Democrats should brand themselves against the conservative movement with a line like that. And then run national ads about what happens -- in the gulf, in the economy, in Afghanistan and Iraq -- when you go charging Yosemite Sam-like, hoppin' and "Yee-Haw"in' with guns a-blazin' toward any major decision without actually taking time to think things through.

This is what the country has come to - a party that still has the maturity and foresight to sit down to discuss any given course of action, and another party of pin-striped infants who bang buzzword spoons on their FOX brand high chairs, who can't see past what they "Want! Now!", who believe in the consumer survey model for world-changing decisions as if a comment card from a truck stop in Dallas should drive international policy.

The immediate emotional and economic needs of John Boehner, Mike Pence, Michael Steele and the rest of the pre-schoolers from Ayn Rand Daycare Center have no business determining long-term policy. Their make believe tea party should be seen for what it is - a dress up game between people in ill-fitting costumes who have no idea what the adults in the living room are talking about.

[flamin lib]

1. Just Rec'd but dislike the Dallas reference

no point in condemning a local for a nation wide problem, it's just sorta' not called for. Texas has it's problems but like Arizona has lots'a good people. How 'bout just a truck stop instead of a specific locale for the truck stop?

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2. Because truckers are also good people. At least some of them.

I don't mean to pick a location as THE place ignorance comes from. At least not the place that ignorance MUST come from. There are plenty of good, decent, thoughtful Texans. In fact, one of my oldest Democratic friends lives there. But Texas, for whatever reason, owns a lot of this particular brand of ignorance. Think of the school board's decision to take Jefferson out of the curriculum to replace him with a religious figure (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html).

Like I said, Texas may not be the only place to find stupidity, but if my life was on the line and somebody was asking me to throw a dart at the map and hit a conservative with more fervor than sense, I'd aim for Texas.

But, to your point, maybe I should have added a few more - Florida, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Indiana...all places I've lived in long enough to find plenty of the type of Republican mindlessness I was referring to.