05/29/07:

PERILS OF PREACHING *ONLY* TO THE CHOIR: This story about Gov. Deval Patrick from the Boston Globe would be a good one for all of the Democrat Presidential hopefuls to read and consider as they continue their Sherman's March headlong over the feelings, interests and desires of those who don't already support them.

As they—sometimes with bogus accents, sometimes with bogus statistics, and always with overpriced hair—"preach" exclusively to their own choir, straining their voices louder and more leftward, to ensure they reach those in the "cheap seats" to the left of the choir (I believe that's where the whine of the violins for the "poooooooor victims of our rapacious and greedy society" comes from...right next to the percussion section constantly beating the drum for socialist revolution...but I digress...), they invariably forget that winning means being President of the WHOLE country.

Yes, that's right Hillary, that's right Barack, that's right John. You don't get to keep hearing the thunderous applause of those who adore and already agree with you. You'll face the music from those people who will, literally overnight, become your harshest critics if you don't do everything they expect (never mind everything you promised), AND those people who already are. At some point you are going to have to face the music, stop preaching and start DOING. You will have—as the article points out—a moral and legal obligation to govern for ALL of our interests. You will have to account for your slander and insults and condescension, never mind garden-variety insensitivity. What goes around comes around, I'm afraid.

And if my visceral reaction to this little story about what Deval Patrick is going through is any indication, when those chickens come home to roost for you, Mrs. Clinton (the most likely person to be cleaning chicken shit off her doorstep someday in early '09), I will be laughing my ASS off.

Posted by Deb on

Comments

[ligneus]

Which is why they don't have a prayer in '08.

[Peg]

Since you have them all three on the same page. Mo-Harry-Curly! Let's say Hillary; I do not get, she is against funding bla. Clinton though would have caught bin if he could have! Then Obama, he says, it is nice we have open talks with Iran. Edwards, been messing up from since hell-that a-o oh ya Kerry! Talking about God, well his party, in proverbial ways. The war is nothing more than a bumper sticker. Then yesterday he says, protest: Protest what: Our history? Is this guy ever off his rocker! Pretty boy ain' got the blues!

[Klaus]

If Mrs. BJ Clinton, John "Salon 2000" or Osama, er uh Obama gets elected, I hope that they do not deliver on any of their promises.

The entire spectrum of the debate has shifted so far to the left from the nation's founding principles that the bulk of today's Republicans appear in comparison and at best like the Democrats of 50 years ago. The pandering to the left that I see in the present crop of Republican candidates is very disappointing, with the possible exception of Duncan Hunter. It will be interesting to hear what Fred Thompson has to say when he officially joins the fray. I like Gingrich's grasp of history and the importance of learning from it.

The Boston Globe article is an interesting one, and yes, these hopefuls will all have a rude awakening when they realize they have to serve for ALL of us.

[Peg]

That is funny Klaus, 1st time I heard that! If they get elected I hope they don't deliver on their promises. When have they? Yaa, and the illegals are trying to make a point who ever comes into this country they are part of the Constitutions right. That they are entitled to benefits. Full rights!
It is on Bill Whittle's blogg! I headed out of vitual town when that was coming down! Screw it! If that is a given fact and that is why they are going to beable to become illegals regardless. We should get some of these benefits the way it reads then too! For they will have to serve us all!