CLEARING MY IN-BOX of junk, I ran across this specimen. It tells what the Houston Chronicle's premiere local columnist thinks about rank-and-file Republicans:
Does the ideologically bound Cruz really represent the Texas Republican Party? Or did all the clear-thinking Republicans flee to Colorado for this sorcher of a July?
(Patricia Kilday Hart, "Cruz swipes Perry's mantle," houstonchronicle.com, August 1, 2012)
In case you missed it, that's an insult.
Mr. Cruz was nominated by the Texas Republican Party. By definition he represents the Texas Republican Party.
He is "ideologically bound" because he believes in things she does not believe in, such limited government and living within our means. Folks who want to spend America into bankruptcy, and damn the consequences, are not "ideologically bound."
By suggesting that the electorate might have been light on "clear-thinking Republicans," the clever Ms. Kilday intimates that the Republican electorate is not "clear-thinking," which is to say that it's mentally confused, unable to think clearly or act intelligently.
Remember this next time she or anyone else at the Chronicle pontificates on the nasty tone of modern politics.
They're elitists who assume that the only reasonable explanation for any disagreement with their own ideology -- for such it is -- is simple stupidity. You're stupid. I'm stupid. All our friends are stupid. A majority of Texans is stupid.
The last paragraph of Ms. Kilday Hart's screed drives the point home. It is an old yarn that self-reverential libs love to tell among themselves:
Asked the question [about whether all clear-thinking Republicans" had fled to Colorado, SMU political scientist Cal] Jillson recalled a story about the late Illinois Sen. Adlai Stevenson. A reporter once assured him that "every sensible person I know is voting for you." To which Stevenson thoughtfully replied, "Yes, but we need a majority."
What snots these people be.
For it's worth, the story cannot be sourced and is probably apochryphal.
But she's Patricia Kilday Hart (hear her roar). Making stuff up is okay for her. She's a clear thinker, a sensible person, not part of that distasteful cohort known as the majority.
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