My “musings” continue with the help of my unpaid and unnamed research assistants over at blogforDanMaesNoMatterWhat.com where plagiarism is a dirty word but resume inflation is what gets you in the door.
My question is, why are the Tea Party folks, especially the leaders of the leaderless and decentralized Tea Party, so gung ho for Dan Maes? Why are they flaming anyone who questions Dan Maes or quotes Freda Poundstone?
Is it because they think they created Dan Maes out of thin air? Do they think they own him, unpaid mortgages and all?
Can they be dreaming of being appointed Dan Maes’ chief of staff, legislative liaison or chief fundraiser?
Are they so in love with the Dan Maes they thought they made that they can’t let go of the Dan Maes who is self-made in the worst possible way?
If not Dan Maes, who? Do they have no one else they can trust, promote and worship?
Or are they just in a state of denial, a deep funk and in shock because their over achieving business executive is not who he says he is or who he desperately wants to be?
Maybe they fear that as Dan Maes goes so goes the Tea Party and its taste of glory?
I have an unnamed source in the Dan Maes camp who tells me that he has scheduled a secret tutorial session with Mark Hillman on the art of becoming a GOP policy wonk. Maybe that’s what has the Tea Party so upset. They love their know nothing boy and don’t want the GOP establishment to turn him into another “typical politician.”
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was that Dan was not a typical politician. In fact, without ever running for office before, he could claim to be an anti-politician.
Everyman.
I don’t think they care as much about winning as they care about sticking it to the man.
Dan is still a pretty good talisman for their cause.
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Barron, I think that you’re right. A lot of people who support Maes never have met him or have heard him talk only once or twice.
They bought his pitch, as you say. They never looked beneath the hood, and they won’t.
Tea Party leaders latched on to Maes as their candidate. Once he was the Tea Party candidate, I guess, he could do no wrong.
I’m just beginning to realize how important Maes is to the Tea Party folks who pretend to speak for Tea Party sympathizers. If he wins, they win. Their cause wins.
They want to win, regardless. That makes them “typical politicians.”
Since you’ve said you would support Hickenlooper over Maes in a two person match up, you are now officially a Democrat. The fact remains that Dan has the right principles and has the best shot at beating Hickenlooper in November. There is no scenario in which Tancredo gets enough votes to beat both the Republican nominee and Hickenlooper.
and the complete lack of any discernible qualifications has given him pause?
Some of the ideological beliefs that guide your party’s politics definitely give me pause.
I think Donald is an impostor – a Democrat wrapped in an American flag.
They are, after all, overwhelmingly the men and women who have served this country in uniform. Republican politician after Republican politician has been revealed as a draft dodger or a chickenhawk.
There are, of course, millions of good Republicans who also served their flag. But if you look at the links of Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, and the restof that crowd, all you see is a big yellow streak down their back.
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I have the impression that folks actually serving in the ranks tend to be more conservative and more Republican.
My impression, most Republican pols aren’t worthy to represent these fine men and women.
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Since the end of the draft, I do believe the men and women in uniform, on balance, are more conservative and more Republican, than the nation as a whole, especially for their age group.
I was thinking of my own Vietnam era service. Generally, working class youth (disproportionately Democrats) were much more likely to serve than the sons of the wealthy, who sought refuge in college deferments, safe haven in the national guard, etc. It was from that class that the dishonorable term Chickenhawk originated.
And your data is where?
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14+ years in Army fatigues, jungles, cammies and BDU’s. Mostly as an infantryman.
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I was asking Voyageur for support for his statement, “Democrats have the right to wrap themselves in an American flag. They are, after all, overwhelmingly the men and women who have served this country in uniform. Republican politician after Republican politician has been revealed as a draft dodger or a chickenhawk [sic].”
Without data, what Voyageur says has no basis in fact.
make statements that imply that because I’m a Democrat, my patriotism is somehow suspect. I revere the Stars and Bars just as much, if not more, than the average American. I firmly believe in the American principles and ideas that flag represents.
I have fought for those principles more times and in more ways than I care to think about. I carry quite a few scars of those fights, physical and mental to this day. Given the choice I would fight the same fights in order to preserve those principles. The same principles that give assholes the right to challenge my patriotism because of my Party affiliation.