Romney/Ryan, running to peel the “Midwest” away from the Democrats?
A rout of the Democrats along the Great Lakes would be huge not only electorally, but also culturally.
It would marginalize the party as a group of arugula-munching, latte-sipping elites who enjoy their ocean views and heedlessly live off the fat of the land (many on the taxpayers’ dime) as lawyers, journalists, college professors, government employees and entitlement recipients — while the rest of the interior labors to pay the bill and suffers the “regulation” of distant, unaccountable bureaucrats.
In other words, the Heartland Campaign is not simply about Electoral College votes. It’s also a way to frame the Democrats as the out-of-touch party of the status quo — i.e., Big Government — at a time when Big Government has so signally failed the average American.
If it works — and if a Romney administration can successfully grapple with the debt bomb, the entitlement crisis and growing government dependency — it could set back the Democrats’ prospects for years to come.
Which brings us back to Eastwood. In such films as “The Outlaw Josey Wales” and “High Plains Drifter,” he’s the embodiment of rugged, rebellious heartland values.
And those cranky, cantankerous, all-American voters are just who Romney & Ryan need to defeat the coastal elites and return America to its heartland roots.
If it works, and R&R crush in the heardland, leaving the left clinging to the coasts and their suppurating outposts in Chicago, the Twin Cities and Madison/Milwaukee? Expect to see a lot of mid-November prate and gabble from lefties about coastal secession.
“Expect to see a lot of mid-November prate and gabble from lefties about coastal secession.”
or leaving the country!
During the Iraq War I ran across a blog full of lefties asserting that Schwarzeneggar could refuse to release CA national guardsman to the feds for combat duty in Iraq (I think it was Crooked Timber blog).
I helpfully reminded them that Orville Faubus had tried to assert his control over the Arkansas national guard back in the 50’s in order to defeat desegregation and been slapped down.
After the commenters figured out who Orville Faubus was, I was labeled a racist for reminding them that they were making a states rights argument.
Terry; that is funny! It is even funnier that the morons yelling racism, don’t seem to have a clue about the roots of it. I guess that it’s the same type of behavior one sees when a lefty invokes the name of Dr. Martin Luther King to support their arguments, then goes apoplectic when it is pointed out that he was a staunch Republican. I could be wrong, but I believe that he once likened the Democratic party to a slave plantation.