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Kathleen Parker Stirs Up Old Southern Stereotypes

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." ...Harper Lee

While recently interviewed about what was wrong with the Republican party, Ohio Sen. George Voinovich didn’t hold back. “It’s the Southerners,” he said. “They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrr.’ People hear them and say, ‘These people are Southerners."

 But, some of us southerners think that 'errr, errr' is better than a thousand "uhh uhhs" and "you Know,um you know".

What is Voinovich trying to do? Start another Civil War? With Kathleen Parker smelling blood in the water, she adds to his insults by devoting an entire column to pummeling southerners and Republicans at the expense of us here southerners.

Parker even found a way to drag Sarah Palin into her article. Gee, Palin isn't from sweet old Dixieland. But I guess that isn't the point with Parker. Palin is by default a southerner because Kathleen Parker knows so many of us rednecks voted for her;therefore, Sarah Palin,too, must be ignorant, bitter, racist, and uggggh...lower middle-class at best.

Parker denigrates republican southerners (now known as "birthers") by accusing them of spreading such birther "disinformation" in a comparison to Kudzu growth. Gee, kudzu got out of hand when Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal (Soil conservation Service) encouraged its planting and growth to prevent land erosion in the southeast. Kudzu growth got way, way, out of hand. That's what we got for listening to "Yankees" like Parker. It should be duly noted that improvement in preventing kudzu growth has been achieved by clearing vast amounts of land in the past 15 years; we have had to make way for the hordes of Northern transplants into Tupelo,Atlanta,Charlotte, and other areas of the rich,romantic,mysterious, yet ignorant South.

Parker makes allowances for some southerners, but it sounds like they must be small in number. Kathleen Parker believes things have become so bad here that we must seriously think of a way to "drive a stake through the heart of old Dixie"...I think Parker wants the southern Republican to go away, but she doesn't understand that many Democrats, and Independents want Pelosi,Reid, and Obama to go away, and to stop what goes against clear and fair governing of all the people.  I think Kathleen Parker doesn't like Southerners...at all.

"No" Ad Accuses Republicans of Following Rush Limbaugh's Cues

There's a liberal add popping up that says Republican leadership in Congress is following Rush Limbaugh.

Around noon the RNC had this response: “The Democrats are running a permanent campaign rather than doing the bipartisan work of governing," Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant said in an e-mail to CNN. "These ads are part of the Democrats’ larger strategy to do something, anything to try to take the focus of their massive spending binge," Conant added.

CNN reports the ad, “No,” is paid for by Americans United for Change and AFSCME, two groups that supported Obama during the general election and who are advocating for his agenda now that he’s in the Oval Office. end quote.

The ad,"No", starts with a picture of a foreclosure sign and a still of Obama signing (supposedly) the Stimulus Bill.  The goal of the ad is to frame all republicans as being against the Stimulus Bill, even the parts they entirely agree with. The viewer is suppose to come away feeling as though republicans have no good intentions and could care less if there are home foreclosures. In any event, it appears that Obama is still running for President.

Here is the lib ad, and it is insulting that they think the average citizen would believe it. Many will say 

They thought the election was over.

"No"

Michael Steele: "The New Cool" tells Critics "stuff it"

Michael Steele, the new GOP Chairman, will do just what Meghan McCain thinks the Republicans need to do and that is to get "tech savvy".

Steele was a smart choice for many reasons: Steele is by far the greatest communicator in the party, and those who have watched him on Fox so many times, know just how good Steele is on television. Steele has no problems relating to Catholics either. In fact, Steele was at one time a seminarian in the order of St.Augustine.  Many Americans will be able to identify with Steele and his values, and by the time he finishes reaching out to the "hip hop" world, Steele will probably have defined the new meaning of GOP. So look for to Steele to take the best of the republican party and blend it with a new image that is "off the hook" as he likes to call it.

Steele made a interesting comment to The Washington Times" that there was one group of Americans he was going to pay more attention, and that is "the moms of all shapes."

Most will agree that the Republican Party needs a major over-haul in the image it projects, and if anyone is up to the job, it seems to be the new chairman. So to all the critics of Michael Steele, he proclaims this message: "stuff it".