Pre-Fab Op-Ed
Two editorials, one party line:
“The left has positioned itself so far away from ‘mainstream’ America that West Virginia voters are searching to align themselves with conservative leadership that represents the values and morality that West Virginia has always exemplified as a state and a people.”
–Mark A. Caserta, Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, WV
(10 jan 05)
“Yet in many ways, Bush is not out of the mainstream. ‘Like most of the billion-plus Christians, Bush believes God is firmly in control of events–an idea taught by both the Old and New Testaments,’ writes political scientist Paul Kengor in God and George Bush: A Spiritual Life.”
–Kenneth T. Walsh, U.S. News & World Report, Washington, DC.
(17 jan 05)
I’ve been reading the newspaper editorials in Huntington, intermittently, for about two decades. They used to be mostly harmless. When I was in high school, the Rev. Rex Bartholomew used to warn us that, due to lax moral standards, we were about to fall behind in our arms race with the Roman Empire. (He’d obtained intelligence that the Romans had nearly completed a Gamma Ray Weapon, with which they planned to forcibly convert the world to Catholicism.)
Who was it who said, it’s not the crazy people who’re dangerous, it’s the half-crazy people?
January 10th, 2005 at 8:40 pm
I feel like the right has positioned itself pretty far away from the mainstream, too. As exemplified by my Trickle-Down Economist ex-bf actually voting Democrat in the last election. The waffling from the left annoys me, but the sheer craziness from the right frightens.