The American Spectator

Crusader| 5.6.09 @ 2:15PM

As a reader of Stephen King novels, I always got this picture of folks who lived in Maine as weathered, salt of the Earth, traditional, God-fearing types.

Seems they were all just a bunch of spineless wusses all along.

hmm_contrib| 5.6.09 @ 3:53PM

Ahh, modern conservatism: "I always got this picture of folks who lived in Maine as weathered, salt of the Earth, traditional, God-fearing types.
Seems they were all just a bunch of spineless wusses all along." = "I always liked a certain people and described them in my mind quite kindly until they did something, nay, one thing I didn't like. Now I hurl childish insults at them." Sigh.

Crusader| 5.6.09 @ 4:45PM

Kinda like your gay community is doing to Miss California?

Distort, twist, and remake words to mean whatever it is you libs want them to mean. I see you left off the first part of my post because quoting me out of context somehow fits your template. The fact remains that the people of Maine are a bunch of spineless wusses. (Speaking of Maine, how're all those Somali immigrants working out for you bleeding heart moron libs up there?) Obviously, King exaggerates their manliness and individuality in his books. Yeah, they ONLY did one little thing right? Just one. I mean its NO BIG DEAL, right?

That's your playbook. Downplay the fundamentalist, extremist aspects of your gayist, leftist, redistributionist, socialist agenda (its just one teensy little thing) and make mountains out of molehills by quoting out of context (remember the recent Rush comment about "I hope he fails") then bluster and demagogue it to death. And then demagogue it some more.

See the pro-deathers debate abortion to see it in action. Downplay the origins of it, present it as some form of "right," target the unborn as not human, and viola! 50,000,000,000 dead babies! But one guy in the last 20 years burns down an abortion clinic and heavens to Betsy, the sky is falling!!!!!

The sad thing is America as we know it is too dumb to see through the demagoguery.

Orgmanthu| 5.6.09 @ 9:17PM

Ah, modern conservatism: sure, we lefties may, you know, forget to return a library book, leave the cap off the toothpaste tube, tear down one itsy-bitsy age-old pillar at the very center of civilization and shove the broken shards in everybody's face until the odious breeders cry "uncle," and you get bent out of shape.

The sooner you conservatives genuflect before us (Hmm - hold that thought) and understand that we are the ubermenschen of the world, the sooner we can get on with tearing down the next itsy-bitsy pillar and shoving the broken shards in your face.

And you'll probably whine when we lobby for Selective State-sponsored Euthanasia for those who can't get see things our way, you crybabies.

Alan Brooks| 5.6.09 @ 9:20PM

Lindsay Lohan is enough to make you swear off all interest in cohabitation: hetero-marital, gay, gay marital, or otherwise.

She gives you the dry heaves just thinking about her..

Rosk| 5.6.09 @ 11:21PM

Isn't this what we want as conservatives? Representatives of the people, those who are answerable to their constituents, passing laws in a democratic manner. This way people can have a say and vote the bums out next election if they aren't happy. We complain and complain about "unelected judges" and their making law out of thin air. This time elected representatives make the law and we still complain. This is the way it should be, with each state making going their own way, it's called federalism and it should be a key cornerstone of modern conservativism!

Diamon Sforza| 5.7.09 @ 12:18AM

I don't know all the people of Maine and certainly not all of my "home" state of CT. But I do know form the many friends and family member still living there that many liberals are intolerant of any opposing viewpoint. But then we always knew this, did we not?

But it strikes me that the New England states will not put the gay marriage to a vote via a referendum. In fact they will not put any contentious issue to a popular vote. States give all their votes to the presidential candidate who garners the majority so why not repeat the pattern for other issues that have clearly divided the individual states?

It's fair to say that a majority of the representatives "up there" are spineless and those who vote them in or would rather kneel than switch new candidates for incumbents are equally cowardly.

Crusader| 5.7.09 @ 8:50AM

Rosk, read the article again. Maine approved it by a vote of the legislature, no a referendum of the people. In MA a few years back the MA supreme court ORDERED the MA legislature to make a law allowing gay marriage. No vote of the people there either. In CA the gayists didn't get their way as the PEOPLE voted no on prop 8, so they are trying to get the courts to overturn the vote.

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