What has happened to Wesleyan?

vassardad
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:53:49 +0000

Uh, I think you missed the sardonic if not sarcastic point of mythmom in her reference to our vietnam policies - I don’t think she meant it as a compliment. Rather differently, by a lot. Her larger point is that there were idiots on the Democratic establishment side too, incl. those educated or otherwise ‘from’ Haaahvud. So I wouldn’t use her point as a jumping off point to laud NESCAC, although what you say is ok by itself. But there haven’t been conservative democrats in this country for decades - scoop jackson was maybe the last one.

Also, I fail to see why conservatives must always by ‘principled’ or ‘honorable’ while leftists, incl. most of the Democratic party, get to be unprincipled scaliwags or indeed scumbags, and everyone here snickers or smiles knowingly about it. It’s the same jive that allowed Jack Kennedy to get away with being the philanderer he was. Too bad Dan Quayle didn’t stick that up Lloyd Bentsen’s pipe when it was claimed ‘he was no Jack Kennedy’ as if that were a bad thing. Oh well, we always remember the best comebacks after the party’s over.