Comments on: The Right Note: New Year’s Rhetoric and Reality

By: LPS4DL

LPS4DL — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:47:26 +0000

I’m glad there will be a Republican voice in this new series of columns, but you’re not the right guy for this, Mark. Your party is in deep trouble, and in deep denial. You represent everything that is wrong or outdated. Your column today reflects the worst of your party in that you offered nothing but complaints and snarky comments about your opposition. If the Republican party is going to survive, and I think it is important that we have at least 2 viable parties for the future, then the Republican party will have to remake itself. Here comes the painful part, Mark. The Republican Party used to be the good party and the Democratic Party used to be the bad party. That all changed, slowly and continually, since the last great Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt left office. The Republican Party used to be the party of small government but it has shifted closer to the party for no government. Your party is infested with Libertarians, who are one step removed from Anarchists. You also have fiscal reactionaries, they call themselves fiscal conservatives but they’re not. They are anti-tax and anti anything that increases taxes. They are against deficits only when it’s for programs they they don’t like. They have no problem running deficits for defense and immoral wars. Republicans also have all of the racist Southerners who used to be racist Democrats. And don’t forget the social reactionaries, who think they are social conservatives. These people want to bring us back to fundamentalism, forcing their religion on the rest of us. You also have the Confederate Sympathizers, notably in Richmond. These people are beyond redemption. They are dinosaurs who thankfully are dying off. Finally, you have the gun nuts. Guns don’t kill people, gun nuts do. Your challenge is to rid your party of all of these bad influences and once again become the party of Lincoln. If you decide to continue with your column here, then please change your tactics and start promoting your good ideas that will make the county a better place for all of us. And do your best to make the Republican party trustworthy again.

By: Skeptical

Skeptical — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:24:19 +0000

(1) I usually vote for Democrats but I can’t express enough contempt for this streetcar idea. (2) From everything I’ve seen of Mark Kelly, his currency involves hating on anything that anyone on the Democratic side of the fence does, hence I am not looking to him for thoughtful departures from the County Board’s agenda — merely knee jerks. (3) Jay Fisette has been in office for over a decade; like him or hate him, can’t people at least learn to spell his name? There’s only ever been one S in it. If you can’t pay attention to endlessly reinforced details like that, why should anyone take your opinion seriously?

By: Hank

Hank — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:49:16 +0000

@Quoth the Raven Yeah, I was taking some liberties with the “hill-billy” label, and yeah, I probably am a bit of a snob when it comes to some parts of the country. I did, however, spend half of my childhood area in a rural area, and it did indeed suck. I am sure there are nice hill-billy parts of the US, though.

By: Quoth the Raven

Quoth the Raven — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:04:15 +0000

I love how you are unable to describe right-leaning areas without being insulting. I’m sure you’re right – they’re all hillbillies and backwards, probably without running water or any education at all. Snob.

By: Hank

Hank — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:57:04 +0000

Okay, we can play the game where you name metro areas in dire straits that have a majority of elected Democrats. Then I can point to cities that are left-leaning that are very successful. The fact is most urban areas tend to vote Democrat. Our hill-billy brethren in the “Real America” tend to vote Republican. I’m sure we can find examples of successful Republican communities in the sticks. And I’m sure we can find failing Republican communities in the sticks, as well.

By: KidRobot

KidRobot — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:44:28 +0000

The first sentence told me exactly what kind of person Mr. Kelly is. I think reducing plastic waste is commendable and keeping hens is perfectly fine, but sadly that disqualifies me from being addressed in a respectful manner. The fact he opens a dose of traditional rhetoric deriding such traditional doses of rhetoric would be entertaining if it weren’t so pathetic.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:32:25 +0000

I am in 100% agreement. I’ll preempt the “Republicans are idiots” remarks by letting you know that I voted for Obama as well as Moran. We continue to spend like drunken sailors, believing that property assessments and tax rates will continue to rise, despite the prospect of significant cuts to federal spending. Streetcar? Sure! Big-ass pool? Sounds great! Oh, but we just realized we don’t have enough money for school busses.

Arlington County has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the entire United States, with real estate prices at or above the all-time high, yet we are facing a budget shortfall next year. It will not always be this good.

By: Kim Arl Un

Kim Arl Un — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:25:28 +0000

rant is off-topic, no response is necessary.

And, yes, we all know that “Patrick” is Nova.

By: MC

MC — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:19:19 +0000

I’m to believe conservatives aren’t anti-goverment? Isn’t this what Remy acts out on his videos? Isn’t this the purpose of the Claredon Institute? Isn’t this the reason for the Mercatus Center at GMU? Or the Koch lobby in Courthouse?

By: novasteve

novasteve — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:25:33 +0000

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/1995-holder-wanted-campaign-really-brainwash-people-guns