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2006-07-10 Home Front: Politix

The desperation of the ~~Kossacks~~ ~~Nutroots~~ Netroots

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Posted by Mike 2006-07-10 20:29|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Koskids are Blue State Boomers? They haven't changed a bit since Woodstock. Except that they're losing elections consistently and seeing a lifetime in power siip through their fingers. In 2012, these are going to be some very bitter people.

Has your marketing firm given you the demographics on the 'burg, Fred?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-10 21:35|| 2006-07-10 21:35|| Front Page Top

#2 by the way - don't confuse Dead Heads with these losers - I and several friends are Dead Heads and you won't find a more red-state conservative bunch. Look at the music/lyrics if you still question

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-10 21:40|| 2006-07-10 21:40|| Front Page Top

#3 What Frank G said. Hell, Ann Coulter is a freakin' Dead Head.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-07-10 22:38|| 2006-07-10 22:38|| Front Page Top

#4 xb! excellent link, thx. A sample:

Either Bobby or Jerry was asked by a Rolling Stone interviewer to denounce all the Young Reaganites attending their concerts in the 80's, and whichever one it was not only refused to attack the young Republicans, but said he liked some of those rightist ideas. Consider that when the Dead decided to do something to save the Rain Forest, they didn't harangue poverty-stricken Third Worlders to give up washing machines and electricity. They did it the free market way: buying up parts of the Rain Forest, parcel by parcel.

And they provided the Lithuanian basketball team recently liberated from the Soviet yoke with totally cool uniforms so they could play in the 1992 Olympics.

After Jerry died, U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) gave an incredibly touching tribute to Jerry Garcia and the good work the Dead's Rex Foundation had done promoting the arts privately in contradistinction to millionaire actresses standing up in $50,000 gowns at the Oscars and demanding that hardworking waitresses and truck drivers be forced to support the arts through government taxation. You can look it up in the Congressional Record.

But to answer your question, Senator, I personally have loads and loads of friends who are right-wingers and Deadheads. I couldn't possibly name them all. For starters, obviously, there's Angela Lansbury. She gave me my first psychedelic tie-dyed tube top at a Dead show just outside Tucson. Just kidding. There are: Peter Flaherty, President, National Legal And Policy Center; John Harrison, top official in the Justice Department under Reagan and Bush and now a law professor at UVA; Jim Moody, MIT grad and libertarian attorney (and Linda Tripp's lawyer); Gary Lawson, former Scalia clerk and currently a law professor at Boston University Law School; Andrew McBride, partner at a DC law firm; DeRoy Murdoch, conservative columnist; Ben Hart, right-wing author of Poisoned Ivy out of Dartmouth. Oh, and the conservative talk radio host Gary Stone in Palm Springs is a Deadhead and kindly plays the Dead as my intro music. When I worked at the Justice Department during law school, I'd be leaving with a whole slew of Reagan or Bush political appointees to see the Dead at RFK. Finally, I believe the great New York subway vigilante Bernie Goetz was a Deadhead.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-10 22:51|| 2006-07-10 22:51|| Front Page Top

#5 LOL - You're incorrigible, Frank. I guess it's too bad their music didn't appeal to me (in the slightest, go figure) since their politics turned out to be right on. Funny thing is, I saw them at Monterrey Pop Festival back in the Summer of Love, 1967. So much to see and hear, so few working neurons...

Posted by Wheang Spavirong9833 2006-07-10 23:03|| 2006-07-10 23:03|| Front Page Top

#6 didn't take? Not an issue - acquired taste for some. I just wanted to note their music was based on many old American folk songs, updated. Big River was a staple, and their patriotism was never in question, compared to today's moonbats they were conservatives, I'd venture.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-10 23:48|| 2006-07-10 23:48|| Front Page Top

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