Comments on: Bitter words make better campaign fodder http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/ To a sufficient degree; in an evenhanded manner. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:07:28 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: J. Strupp http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3497 J. Strupp Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:01:07 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3497 No, it's not easy. But it's all factual. No, it’s not easy. But it’s all factual.

]]> By: Dan Harland http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3300 Dan Harland Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:49:30 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3300 After a loss, my football coach used to say, "If you don't like it, get better." Then he would leave. It seemed to work there. Maybe we need a football coach to run the country. After a loss, my football coach used to say, “If you don’t like it, get better.” Then he would leave. It seemed to work there. Maybe we need a football coach to run the country.

]]> By: Shawn Matson http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3297 Shawn Matson Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:51:33 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3297 It's not that easy. It’s not that easy.

]]> By: J. Strupp http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3296 J. Strupp Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:36:45 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3296 Shawn...so what? If the local mill shuts down....better move somewhere there's employment opportunities. Big box retailer destroying your mom and pop shop? Learn to compete or fold up shop and find a job somewhere else. Don't like your limited employment opportunities? Go back to school and get a degree to open up new employment opportunities. These are today's economic realities for better or for worse. Blaming the government is a waste of breath. Shawn…so what?

If the local mill shuts down….better move somewhere there’s employment opportunities. Big box retailer destroying your mom and pop shop? Learn to compete or fold up shop and find a job somewhere else. Don’t like your limited employment opportunities? Go back to school and get a degree to open up new employment opportunities.

These are today’s economic realities for better or for worse. Blaming the government is a waste of breath.

]]> By: Dan Harland http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3262 Dan Harland Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:09:46 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3262 I bet Barack would do the same: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D902C69O0&show_article=1 I bet Barack would do the same:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D902C69O0&show_article=1

]]> By: Stumpy http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3258 Stumpy Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:05:05 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3258 Shawn, just what do you think is the solution? It is easy to complain and rare to see specific proposals with prices (taxes) to solve the "problems" that some think should be solved so we can live in Utopia. For example, should the government shutdown big box stores so the mom and pop ones can survive, or should the government fix prices, or should the government subsidize the small stores...or should be let capitalism work, prices be lowest, and people shop where they want to? Shawn, just what do you think is the solution? It is easy to complain and rare to see specific proposals with prices (taxes) to solve the “problems” that some think should be solved so we can live in Utopia. For example, should the government shutdown big box stores so the mom and pop ones can survive, or should the government fix prices, or should the government subsidize the small stores…or should be let capitalism work, prices be lowest, and people shop where they want to?

]]> By: Shawn Matson http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3238 Shawn Matson Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:56:59 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3238 J. Strupp, are you kidding? Their jobs are leaving, their kids are leaving for cities and better towns, their stores are being run out of business by big box retailers, their urban counterparts have cable, high speed internet, better services. They are being left behind by technology. And most of all, by their government that promises to fix the gulfing inequalities we have between how we treat rural people and urban people. They are being left behind by everything that isn't bolted to the ground. J. Strupp, are you kidding? Their jobs are leaving, their kids are leaving for cities and better towns, their stores are being run out of business by big box retailers, their urban counterparts have cable, high speed internet, better services. They are being left behind by technology.

And most of all, by their government that promises to fix the gulfing inequalities we have between how we treat rural people and urban people.

They are being left behind by everything that isn’t bolted to the ground.

]]> By: J. Strupp http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3237 J. Strupp Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:38:56 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3237 Left behind? Whose doing the "leaving" ? Kathryn. They aren't. It's not meant to be an insult. Left behind? Whose doing the “leaving” ?

Kathryn. They aren’t. It’s not meant to be an insult.

]]> By: Kathryn http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3235 Kathryn Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:18:07 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3235 Small Americans aren't educated and pretty much lap up anything. Yikes! Small Americans aren’t educated and pretty much lap up anything. Yikes!

]]> By: Shawn Matson http://fairlyconservative.com/2008/04/14/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3234 Shawn Matson Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:56:47 +0000 http://fairlyconservative.com/election-2008/bitter-words-make-better-campaign-fodder/#comment-3234 I think you're wrong. I think they're bitter because they're being left behind. I think you’re wrong. I think they’re bitter because they’re being left behind.

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