wow, michelle malkin is brutally honest about how conservatives think

[undercutter2006]

I need a man. A man who can say "No." A man who rejects Big Nanny government. A man who thinks being president doesn't mean playing Santa Claus. A man who won't panic in the face of economic pain. A man who won't succumb to media-driven sob stories.A man who can look voters, the media and the Chicken Littles in Congress in the eye and say the three words no one wants to hear in Washington: Suck. It. Up.

At last week's Fox News debate in New Hampshire, the He Men of the GOP field went all mealy-mouthed when asked about the signs of recession. Mitt Romney asserted our need to "stop the housing crisis." Does he mean the government should insulate borrowers and lenders from culpability? Continue to artificially prop up housing prices? If so, why? If not, then what?

Last month, Mike Huckabee told an NPR reporter unequivocally that it "is not the purpose of government to prop people up from every poor decision they make." Amen, Rev. Huckabee. But at the New Hampshire debate, he sheepishly avoided tough pronouncements and instead voiced support for President Bush's Hillarycare-Lite housing bailout approach since it "didn't involve tax dollars." Yet.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/01/16/wanted_a_suck_it_up_candidate

Well, at least she is honest. If you a middle class individual with a secure job - like Michelle Malkin, what do you care about how anybody else is doing? Why should you support any programs that take tax dollars from you, but don't directly benefit you? If you are financially secure, then you can afford to be a conservative and go - hey, let's have a society where those that don't have economically viable skills or those who make bad choices truly suffer, who cares, it doesn't affect me one bit, besides if you make a good living in today's world you can get extra satisfaction at looking down at people who didn't make it and feel superior.

I believe that is really how financially secure conservatives think.

And it will take for the standard of living of an average american to plummet further before we will see a true political revolution (which will happen eventually, because the elites never know when to stop themselves)

As it stands right now, we are nowhere near that point yet. I read a report where it said that the average earning in New Hampshire is about 60 thousand dollars per person. Why would any of those people care for Edwards who talks about poor people? How does it affect them personally? It doesn't.

That's the world we are living in my friends.

This country will have to get a lot poorer before people will start paying attention, as it stands right now there are way too many people who have an ok job and live comfortably, so they simply don't care, that's why Edwards and Kucinich don't get any traction.

[Contrary1]

1. I think any man who is in his right mind...

could say no to her. :)

[awoke_in_2003]

7. I don't know

i'd fuck her if she promised to shut up for the next couple of years.

[Quantess]

10. OMG! I can't believe I laughed.

If a man said that about ANY OTHER WOMAN, I would think it was horrible! But since it's about Michelle Malkin, I'm on your side!

[Chovexani]

2. Conservatism is Social Darwinism

It's the politics of "I got mine, fuck all y'all". :puke:

[DBoon]

3. "Why would any of those people care "

You may have been poor at one point and remember what it was like.

You realize you are one health care emergency away from losing everything.

You figured that your middle class salary still doesn't get you what your parents had, and you don't want your children to have it worse.

You figured that even with your good salary there are people much wealthier than you, who look down at YOU and feel morally superior, and you would rather not play that game.

You figured that even with your good salary there are people much wealthier than you, who treate you, your job, and your family as their personal toy, to play with until they get tired ("Oh look, little johnny is bored playing with his lego. Let's let him do a leveraged buyout and lay off a few thousand people. That might keep him amused for a while.")

or maybe a society where many people have nothing to lose is not the sort of place you want to live in.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. ...

:thumbsup:

[muntrv]

4. Even if we went into a depression like the 1930s, assclowns like Malkin will blame

the victims, saying shit like "there's no depression, these unemployed people don't want to work."

[DBoon]

24. kind of like "he isn't really dead"

"he's just faking it to get attention"

[Warren Stupidity]

5. 60 thousand dollars per person?

You may have heard that but you would be wrong. Here is what I think you are referring to: "HALF THE HOUSEHOLDS IN THE STATE NOW MAKE OVER 55 THOUSAND DOLLARS" source: http://www.nhpr.org/node/7123

That would be median income per household, not median income per person, two very different numbers. Also, stay away from average earnings as that is a very distorted number. Median is a much better number to look at.

So perhaps think that 60,000/yr per household is 'well off'. It isn't. It certainly isn't in the heavily populated southern tier of our state where housing prices are driven by the Boston metro region market. 61,950/yr per household qualifies for SCHIP benefits here (assuming a family of four.) That would be 3x the poverty level for the region. Hardly well off.

[undercutter2006]

9. point well taken, point well taken

I guess I am also predudiced by the fact that I have a secure government job, making about 70 grand a year and not really working that hard at all, compared to most blue collar workers, so I am set for life. And most people I know are the same way. But I support liberal candidates with my vote and my money because I don't think it's right that people on the bottom end of the economic spectrum should suffer just because 'they didn't make it'

And the fact that those candidates who appeal to the people on the bottom of the economic divide are not doing so well, that just shows that there are not enough poor people right now to make a difference. And I am not denigrating anybody's experience, being poor sucks, I've been there myself, but just looking at the politics today it doesn't seem like there are enough of the critical mass there to make a difference right now. People would have to get more poor and the middle class would have to get destoroyed a little more before it will be reflected in politics. That's all I am saying, just an observation

[Bucky]

6. I thought she was married

That "I need a man" schtick has got to be painful for her husband to read. I'm sure all the girls from the Fox News powder room are giggling--knowingly--behind that poor schlep's back these days.

[undercutter2006]

18. not really

i am sure her husband appreciates the fact that she wants to be this 'little girl' who is rescued by the 'big man' politically, and since he is the man who 'dominates' her in their individual relationship where men are supposed to be 'the head of the household'....

[zbdent]

8. at least the black widow spiders eat their mate after mating ...

any male that would mate with her would commit suicide ... quite often enough, during the act ...

[Disturbed]

12. Yeah, she is correct but that's not a secret.

Most Conservatives feel that way. They feel that the Govt. should not have any safety nets. If people cannot get assistance from their friends &/or relatives, private charities should be the only safety nets.

[noiretextatique]

22. except when it benefits them

the bush bros savings and loan bailout, for example.

[DBoon]

25. Because most conservatives made their money without govt help

they inhereited their fortunes through their own personal initiative.

It really is hard work being born to a wealthy family

[Maine-ah]

13. Michelle Malkin middle class?

huh, I didn't think that she had any class.

[muntrv]

14. Suck it up? Sounds like Marie Antoinette's "Let Them Eat Cake."

[Rex]

15. And yet no man, woman or beast will touch her.

:rofl:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. Michelle Malkin is NOT "middle class"

Anyone who has a regular TV commentator job is making well above the national median income.

[defendandprotect]

17. Except, corporate-America counts on our government being "Santa Claus" ---

What of the sob-stories that led to bail-outs --- ?
Subsidizing of tobacco --?
Subsidizing of pharmaceutical companies --- ?

Name a corporation and it's got it's hands in Uncle Sam's pocket one way or another --

[undercutter2006]

19. great point

like i always say, wanna cut spending - why don't we start with corporate handouts

now who is with me?

<<<crickets>>>

[Johonny]

20. So what I get from this is

Michelle Malkin wouldn't vote for herself even if she was exactly the person she is looking to elect for president because apparently "she needs a man". Ouch. Women that hate themselves, great stuff.

[MisterP]

21. this is the Randroid thrust: libertarians like Wrong Paul just extend this Dickensianism to the

corporations, and they're applauded for "sticking it to the corporocracy"--even though this is what big business advocates through its paid or volunteer mouthpieces!
see also http://buffalobeast.com/122/50mostloathsome2007.html, number 26

[cooolandrew]

23. It is a small change for her and it should be respected. Seems their consciences r getting 2 them.

[bobbolink]

26. Many Katrina people "Sucked. It. Up." MANY of them died.

Does it matter?

[Kber]

27. Not every "financially secure" person would agree

My parents, divorced now but both financially secure, are having trouble deciding between Kucinich and Edwards.