Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Craig, Fundamental courtsey, I've got more manners than you have books, everone has more manners than you.
You really should get out of the house more, if you believe that.
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I don't seem to remember Tea Partiers protesting against any of that. Or conservatives generally.
Well, apart from the paleo-right who regard the sand-niggers and Christ-killers (who secretly run the United States, don't cha know?) as barely human, and who should be left alone to kill each other.
Craig and Megan seem to have cheerlead themselves to a froth. What's the point.
OK, dude, put your twatcock back in your pants because I'm spoken for. Here's a crazy idea: No woman on this Earth has to live up to your standards of lady-like ideological purity. And when you disagree with them pay them the fundamental courtesy of not scolding them for flase consciousness and "malicious dishonesty".
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Whereas it was totally A-OK with segregation.
And Buckley also wrote a rather... sticky mash note to Joe McCarthy. I'm not putting the man up for a posthumous NAACP Image Award, but I think it's only fair to note it took a lot of nerve for Buckley to take on the Birchers. (IIRC, this was a period when he ran up a form letter reading in its entirety "Cancel you own Goddamn subscription." A rather risky position to take with a small-circulation political magazine barely out of its christening robes.)
Then again, Buckley edited a magazine with some intellectual and policy rigour -- and not afraid to save its sharpest stilettos for the GOP -- instead of what it is now: Teen Beat for nut-bags.
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The Tea Party phenomenon is largely a revival of John Birch Society ideas -- the exotic conspiracy theories especially.
And its rather sad watching the National Review turn into a Tea-Bagger cheer squad, when its founder used its pages (and his considerable rhetorical ninja skills) to argue that American conservatism had no place for paranoid racists and anti-Semites. Sigh...
Of course, how William F. Buckley would be derided as an "establishment Republican" (along with any reality-based picture of Reagan, and moderates like Snowe)... Somehow, I think the GOP is going to have to spend a lot longer resembling an X-rated episode of The Walking Dead...
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But I still think it would have been easier for a staunch conservative Iron Lady slipping into a sort of Elizabethan exception role, than it would have been for one of the more feminist types in that era.
Oh, please... Thatcher became opposition leader a few months before Barbara Castle was sacked from Cabinet by James Callaghan. Castle later claimed he told her she had to go because he "wanted someone younger" in his Cabinet. She said the hardest thing she ever did in her life was biting back the urge to reply "Why not start with you, James?" (He was the oldest Prime Minister since Churchill.) I wouldn't confuse Made in Dagenham with a documentary, but the relentless bullshit women on both sides of the House had to swallow isn't actually exaggerated by much. If anything, it's probably toned down.
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All I could think of to tweet when I got home from Thursday's show was:
"I want some of what Leonard Cohen's on."
I suspect its more about being at a time and place in your life where you've got nothing left to prove to anyone whose regard you care about.
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Craig can probably give you a good idea of how my voice sounds, actually...
A pound of butter wrapped in velvet.
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Maggie Thatcher worked in a male-dominated party in the seventies
And it took her over a decade to (narrowly) win selection for a winnable seat -- despite the unusually high profile she won as the youngest Conservative candidate in the 1950 election, where she actually did a pretty good job of cutting the incumbent's majority by over 6,000 in a safe Labour seat.
And if you ever think Thatcher was ever "one of the boys", I'd recommend John Campbell's rather astute two-volume biography. You don't have to like her politics to cringe at the bingo cards you could fill on every page. And its hard not to come to the conclusion that the contempt was entirely mutual.
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Smell it, you just wrote it, although it is a very bad summation of the point being made.
@Jeremy: If I ever engage in ideological slut-shaming, I fully expect to get slapped and hard - 'cause that's just how the PAS Women's XV rolls. And, boy, if B. Jones is going to call anyone an 'Uncle Tom' (however passive-aggressive s/he is about it) I'm the last person who is going to be applauding as I order a muffin basket.
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He was going to "review every line of expenditure" and he rammed through a pork stuffed stimulus package that was more a payoff to his union buddies than a genuine stimulus package, and it hasn't worked as promised.
Oh please, James... First, you're being rather disingenuous (or flat out ignorant) about how the Congress works. The President doesn't get to "ram though" as much as a take out order from Starbucks; the GOP did a pretty damn good job at larding up the stimulus bill with pork all along the line. But I guess I keep forgetting that the GOP is now the Party of Palin: Lie about your record (the biggest expansion of the federal government since LBJ), re-write you history and show an infantile disdain for taking any responsibility for your own actions.
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