Comments on: Putting A Roadblock On The Road To Serfdom http://jayreding.com/archives/2005/06/09/putting-a-roadblock-on-the-road-to-serfdom/ Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:46:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mark in Mexico http://jayreding.com/archives/2005/06/09/putting-a-roadblock-on-the-road-to-serfdom/comment-page-1/#comment-111140 Mark in Mexico Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:31:56 +0000 http://www.jayreding.com/?p=4269#comment-111140 <strong>Janice Rogers Brown on slaves and slavery</strong> This is a hatchet job if ever there was one. It is supposed to be a biography, I think. It really is an attack piece written from Ted Kennedy’s website. From the headline, New Judge Sees Slavery in Liberalism, through the first three paragraphs... Janice Rogers Brown on slaves and slavery

This is a hatchet job if ever there was one. It is supposed to be a biography, I think. It really is an attack piece written from Ted Kennedy’s website. From the headline, New Judge Sees Slavery in Liberalism, through the first three paragraphs…

]]> By: Mark http://jayreding.com/archives/2005/06/09/putting-a-roadblock-on-the-road-to-serfdom/comment-page-1/#comment-111139 Mark Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:19:52 +0000 http://www.jayreding.com/?p=4269#comment-111139 We're all supposed to mortified and disgusted when Howard Dean calls the Republican Party a monolithic party of mostly white Christians, but then burst in applause at the histrionics of Brown equating government workers who distribute food stamps with slavemasters. Bush would probably be wise to marginalize, rather than promote, the kinds of Republicans who actually read the party platform aloud and tell the poor exactly what they think of them. Keep in mind there are plenty of red-state "values voters" waiting by their mailbox for their government checks to arrive. If at some point in the near future, they decide they love the ability to feed their kids more than they hate gays, inflammatory rhetoric by the real class warfare instigators like Janice Rogers-Brown could end up being a huge liability. We’re all supposed to mortified and disgusted when Howard Dean calls the Republican Party a monolithic party of mostly white Christians, but then burst in applause at the histrionics of Brown equating government workers who distribute food stamps with slavemasters.

Bush would probably be wise to marginalize, rather than promote, the kinds of Republicans who actually read the party platform aloud and tell the poor exactly what they think of them. Keep in mind there are plenty of red-state “values voters” waiting by their mailbox for their government checks to arrive. If at some point in the near future, they decide they love the ability to feed their kids more than they hate gays, inflammatory rhetoric by the real class warfare instigators like Janice Rogers-Brown could end up being a huge liability.

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