By: Pops

Pops — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:00:20 +0000

First, the baseball game was not called because the threat of rain would make poor little commoners uncomfortable. No, the game was called because it would made for terrible ratings to have a 7 hour rain-delayed game. Ratings equal money. Pure and simple.

So Kristol’s is flat wrong on that (among many other things).

Furthermore, the problem with the modern Republican party is that it sees ALL Dems as extremists–liberals who have an hardened agenda of anti capitalism, limited rights, etc.

While there are fringe groups that may believe this form of liberalism, MOST liberals are moderates are just like Obama: We believe steadfastly in free markets and capitalism, personal freedoms and rights. At the same time, we also know that as a society we have to have strong governance so that the whole damn thing doesn’t spin out of control into chaos—exactly what our health care system has been doing for the past 20 years.

The GOP needs a black and white view of the world to sustain itself (otherwise, you lose the Christian base of your party.) Liberals and moderates, unlike conservatives, don’t have a black and white, us against them, good and bad, capitalism and communism, view of the world. We know that the world is a much more complex and nuanced place.

That is precisely why Dems are better presidents and why Obama will be reelected.

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By: Pops