Obama Voters: Your Candidate Is A Bloodless Ideologue Who Doesn't Care Who Suffers
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
10/01/2012
Iconoclast H.L. Mencken may have been the orneriest curmudgeon ever to put acid-dipped pen to paper, but regarding Obama voters, his famous epigram – “Democracy is the theory that the common people know exactly what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard” – is so true it hurts (them and us).
Massachusetts businessman “Battlin’ Bill” Barnstead was a perennial Republican offering against then-House Speaker Tip O’Neill. As crusty as Mencken – and certain that nothing he said or did could possibly alter the inevitability of O’Neill’s reelection every two years – Bill was contemptuous of the electorate he was expected to court.
In one of his campaigns, Barnstead produced a brochure with a caricature of himself as Uncle Sam, pointing an accusing finger and asking voters in the Mass. 8th. Congressional District: “Are you ignorant or stupid?”
GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary
By Don Feder
10/01/2012
Iconoclast H.L. Mencken may have been the orneriest curmudgeon ever to put acid-dipped pen to paper, but regarding Obama voters, his famous epigram – “Democracy is the theory that the common people know exactly what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard” – is so true it hurts (them and us).
Massachusetts businessman “Battlin’ Bill” Barnstead was a perennial Republican offering against then-House Speaker Tip O’Neill. As crusty as Mencken – and certain that nothing he said or did could possibly alter the inevitability of O’Neill’s reelection every two years – Bill was contemptuous of the electorate he was expected to court.
In one of his campaigns, Barnstead produced a brochure with a caricature of himself as Uncle Sam, pointing an accusing finger and asking voters in the Mass. 8th. Congressional District: “Are you ignorant or stupid?”
