[lbo-talk] Silly liberals! This isn't France!

Travis Fast tfast at yorku.ca
Fri Nov 11 13:25:17 PST 2005


This definition of liberalism is so odd. Do you get tought about classical liberalism and reform liberalism in American schools and universities? No one in the Anglo world uses liberalism in the way that Americans do..what's up?

Travis Doug Henwood wrote:


> [from the reactionary hack PR firm - note Pat Buchanan cri de coeur at
> end]
>
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>
> "This isn't France!"
>
> GOP IS NOT IN CRISIS-- LIBERALS ARE IN DENIAL
>
> Author of best-selling kid's book HELP! MOM! THERE ARE LIBERALS UNDER
> MY BED scoffs at liberals licking their chops over election results
> and Bush's recent woes. Says concerns by Pat Buchanan are overblown
> and Americans want more conservatism. Her message to Dems: "Silly
> liberals! This isn't France!"
>
> What's the difference between liberals and children?
>
> * * * * * * * * * * *
> Conservatives -- stung by set-backs at the polls on Tuesday, as well
> as President Bush's sagging popularity numbers and the indictment of a
> key member of the Administration -- are beginning to panic. Pat
> Buchanan has already declared that "Bush Leaves GOP in Crisis," a
> message headlined on the popular Drudge Report today. Meanwhile,
> liberal Democrats such as Howard Dean are gleeful, predicting a
> landslide victory in next year's House and Senate elections.
>
> These predictions of a pending conservative melt-down are overblown,
> according to Katharine DeBrecht, the author of HELP! MOM! THERE ARE
> LIBERALS UNDER MY BED, the best-selling children's book that features
> villainous look-alikes of left-wing icons Hillary Rodham Clinton and
> Ted Kennedy.
>
> "Liberalism is a brain-dead philosophy, and the American people do not
> believe in it," asserts DeBrecht, whose book has provoked charges of
> brainwashing and Nazism from liberal critics. "After FDR, our nation
> tried liberalism for 50 years -- and it didn't work! That's why the
> Democratic party lost Congress after decades of dominance, why the GOP
> has won 7 of the last 10 presidential contests, why no self-proclaimed
> 'liberal' has won the Presidency since 1964, and why twice as many
> people now self-identify as conservatives as compared to liberals."
>
> Conservatives should not panic over a few bumps in the road, adds
> DeBrecht, who notes that even Ronald Reagan suffered the loss of
> Republican control of the Senate in 1986. And while President Bush may
> need to re-examine his staff and strategies, all signs suggest that
> the on-going conservative revolution will continue to make progress
> over the years to come.
>
> "The American people want more conservatism, not less!" argues
> DeBrecht. "They want to see Washington cut its out-of-control spending
> and secure our borders, and they don't trust bureaucrats to make
> decisions for them and their families. The liberals won't do that. All
> they have to offer is a tired agenda of higher taxes, opposition to
> family values, hostility toward religion, and a relentless desire to
> turn more control over to the United Nations. The American people
> won't go along with that -- this isn't France!"
>
> Liberals have relentlessly attacked DeBrecht for her illustrated HELP!
> MOM! THERE ARE LIBERALS UNDER MY BED since it was published earlier
> this fall. Alan Colmes called it "brainwashing," pundit Andrew
> Sullivan said it invoked images of Mao Tse-Tung, and MSNBC host Ron
> Reagan said he wanted to publish his own kid's book to demonstrate
> that conservatives "hate black people." The Democratic Underground
> website proclaimed DeBrecht a member of their "Top 10 Conservative
> Idiots" list, and the spokesman for Hillary Rodham Clinton publicly
> mocked her book, claiming it suffered from poor sales. (The book is
> currently going to press for a third printing, and it has been ranked
> as high as #1 on Barnes & Noble's website.)
>
> "Silly liberals!" laughs DeBrecht. "Can you believe that they actually
> think this country will take a long-run turn to the left? The
> difference between liberals and children," she adds, "is that most
> children are eager to learn new things, while liberals never learn!"
>



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