Charles Pierce of Esquire: I Hate Centrism

[eridani]

http://lists.readersupportednews.org/ss/link.php?M=53179&N=8687&C=f1f8f463a232f5ac00bd898a9893fa46&L=11450

There are three kinds of people who claim to be centrists in this country today. There are embarrassed Republicans. There are lazy people. And there are liars. There is no fourth alternative. We have seen vividly the intellectual exhaustion of self-proclaimed centrists in the laughable attempts to blame both sides for the reign of the morons. We have seen vividly the intellectual dishonesty of self-proclaimed centrists demonstrated by the No Labels and Fix The Debt scams, both of which involve little more than selling out the social safety-net. We even seen the intellectual vacuity of self-proclaimed centrists in the results of this poll, in which we see some vague mumbling about the deficit that will eat us in our beds, but a strong desire to raise taxes on the very wealthiest among us, which I guarantee you none of the people who proclaim their centrism the loudest believes is a centrist position.

Kathleen Parker reacted to our poll with a column of stunningly mendacious "centrist" flim-flam. Parker is regularly cited as a "reasonable" conservative -- as mythical a beast as an intellectually honest "centrist," truth be told -- because she once wrote some columns in which she determined that Sarah Palin might not be up to the job of being vice-president. This, of course, was a stunning insight only to the comatose and to household pets, Anyway, Parker is quite comfortable in the New American Center.

[djean111]

1. To me, lately, a "Centrist" is the mom who says okay, go ahead and cut that baby in half,

King Solomon. Or maybe just take a leg. Or Sophie choosing which child, knowing full well the other child is next. A precedent has been established.

[Greybnk48]

2. Thanks to good old DU, I've been introduced to Charles Pierce!!

What a treasure; accurate and hilarious! I'm not sure if it was you, eridani, who posted his blog a few days ago, but i went and read a whole slew of them and I'm hooked on the guy.

I hope it's legal for an old lady to read Esquire, because I have to now. Among other things, he calls Paul Ryan a "zombie eyed granny starver." I'm in love, LOL!

[eridani]

7. If you read him online, you can dispense with cheesecake stuff n/t

[Oilwellian]

3. K&R

The New American Center is the same as the old American center -- the last refuge of scoundrels who still need a gig.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Charlie Pierce is not being reasonable

I hear he voted for Elizabeth Warren. That tells us everything, doesn't it?

#%^*ing Massachusetts.

Regards,

Third-Way Manny

[Bluenorthwest]

5. He is so very correct.

nt

[riderinthestorm]

6. Oh this is such a good read. Big K&R nt

[Fumesucker]

8. Charles Pierce is a "Crazy Leftist", why can't he be sensible like us?

[Nye Bevan]

9. It's a good thing President Obama is such a no-nonsense hard-left unapologetic liberal.

Hillary Clinton too.