Comments on: Carville to the Left: Conservatives Aren’t Racist.

By: LJ "Beaglescout" Miller

LJ "Beaglescout" Miller — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:40:48 +0000

That is certainly not anything that Washington insiders do.

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:30:55 +0000

as far as religious imagery. You can find a whole lot more of it in any group of African Americans meeting for any reason.

Of course that flies right past the left.

By: aesthete

aesthete — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:13:55 +0000

By: Uma Richie

Uma Richie — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:48:50 +0000

that I read from this are:
1. Conservatives are disenchanted with the GOP leadership.
2. Independents are still eating up liberal talking points.

The resulting Democratic strategy, if they do not get caught up in their own biases, should be to suppress the conservative vote by portraying the Republican candidate in a given general election as a Washington insider or a party establishment type.

If Carville is correct on point two, I fear for our country.

By: bs

bs — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:26:00 +0000

I didn’t see anything that really sounded outrageous, but I didn’t go over it in gory detail either.

By: aesthete

aesthete — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:18:13 +0000

So religious imagery may have well been evident in their discussion (it was when I lived there). I doubt that that would be the case among other conservative groups (younger conservatives, the Midwest and West, etc.). I, too, was pleasantly surprised by the fact that it appears to have been a good-faith study. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that their conclusions are correct, but it is better than a bad-faith study with a pre-determined outcome.

By: bs

bs — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:05:06 +0000

One of the key aspects is that it is not a mocking, leftist-promoting piece. It is simply a report on the findings of their study, and I believe it’s fairly on-target, Brian’s observations about the “religious imagery” notwithstanding.

That will actually be a good tool for the Left to have. Now that one of their own has taken a fairly even-handed look at the conservatives, they’ll have better insights on how to deal with us. Whether they’ll actually USE those is another question altogether.

I wish someone on the Right would do a similar study.

By: aesthete

aesthete — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:42:37 +0000

is quite fascinating: presumably well-educated, intelligent liberals are currently throwing a hissy-fit over the fact that the outcome of Carville’s study don’t fit their narrative, afterwhich they start talking about how Republicans only look at news and evidence which backs up their points.

By: peg_c

peg_c — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:21:38 +0000

You beat me to it.

If I were married to this Gollum nightmare, I’d have kicked him out of the boudoir years ago until he toed the line. He’d totally be my slave by now or no “soup” for him.

By: buzzyboop

buzzyboop — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:53:03 +0000

Title self-explanatory.
Cheers, Frank

By: DONTTREADONME

DONTTREADONME — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:36:20 +0000

and not because of race, wow, just a stunning revelation. BTW how much can I get paid to act like I am doing a study then just report what I already know? /snark off