Memorial Day Reminder: Grover Norquist to Greatest Generation: ''Drop Dead''

[Octafish]

The conservative mind at "work":

Norquist: The Greatest Generation is anti-American

by ManfromMiddletown
DailyKos
Mon Sep 20, 2004 at 07:42:23 PM PDT

Just when you think that Grover Norquist can sink no lower, he opens his mouth. In an interview with Spanish paper El Mundo, Norquist hit a new low. When asked about if he thought Democratic Party was coming to an end Norquist told Pablo Pardo of El Mundo:

"Yes, because in addition their demographic base is shrinking. Each year, 2 million people who fought in the Second World War and lived through the Great Depression die. This generation has been an exeception in American history, because it has defended anti-American policies. They voted for the creation of the welfare state and obligatory military service. They are the base of the Democratic Party. And they are dying. And, at the same time, all the time more Americans have stocks. That makes them defend the interests of business, because it is their own interest. Because of that, it's impossible to bring to the fore policies of social hate, of class warfare."

That's right, the Bush camp is cheering on the death of America's Greatest Generation. Are they trying to channel the spirit of Joseph McCarthy?

Have they no sense of shame?

SOURCE: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/20/212529/479

Remember, Grover Norquist's the guy who, after the Greatest Generation, wants to drown government in a bathtub.

[NC_Nurse]

1. He couldn't be more wrong. The seniors in this country are the most reliable

Repub votes. As the younger generation comes to power, there will be LESS fear of gays, LESS of a white majority, and LESS folks willing to trust business. Look at the attitudes and experiences of those of us younger than 50. We've seen the ravages to the environment and the economy of unregulated corporate greed, the cost of racism and homophobia to our friends and families, and the absolute corruption of those who seek to divide us in order to hold power and continue the transfer of wealth to the top 1%.

I think the days of the Grover Norquists of this country are numbered.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. +1

[Octafish]

8. Raised on Reagan

I understand the perspective about change and age. The young are more apt to be open to accepting others based on the "content of their character" and not their race and outer appearance.

The idea is controlling the ideological environment. Many of today's worst were raised on the Gippet's idea of "Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem." That's often true, but not always -- especially when it comes to New Deal policies from Social Security to funding job creation.

Grover Norquist fears the Greatest Generation was raised on FDR and the New Deal. There is nothing scarier to the GOP greedhead turdballs Norquist fronts for than someone who was raised with love in their heart and ideas in their heads.

[Arkana]

2. The boomers aren't the Democratic base.

Shows how little Grover knows about politics.

[John N Morgan]

4. Boomers are NOT the greatest generation; they are the great flatulation of the Greatest Generation

Boomers are the generation that never won a war.

[Vogon_Glory]

6. Talkin' Bout My Gen-Generation

We Baby Boomers are the spoiled children of people who lived through tough, hard times where the most ragged edges of Norquist-style capitalism cut and bled shirt-sleeve and middle-class Americans and those men and women who went to fight in World War II. We grew up fat, dumb, ignorant, and feeling entitled. Having got ours, we were quite happy to pull up the ladder of upward class and income mobility behind us. That's why so many dumb-a@@es of my age cohort voted for the likes of Ronald Reagan and Gee Dubya Bush.

For every Carl Sagan, for every John Kerry, for every Al Gore we produced for the Good Guys, we also produced double and triple of the likes of Grover Norquist, Rick Santorum, Richard Pombo, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, John Cornyn, James Inhofe, and the rest of the right-wing rogue's gallery. It galls me to say it, but right now I feel that my generation is the one that F***ed up the country and the planet.

:argh:

:cry:

:dem:

:patriot:

[pipi_k]

7. We may have grown up that way, but...

we didn't raise ourselves, did we?

Just like any other generation of kids, we were blank slates.


If we grew up fat, dumb, ignorant, and feeling entitled, who taught us to be that way?


Yeah. Our parents. Society as a whole.


So for every RW whackjob we produced, there are still untold numbers of Baby Boomers who didn't turn out that way. Many of them are people we'll never even know of because they aren't, and won't ever be, famous.


Every generation has its good and bad.

:shrug:

[Vogon_Glory]

10. There Are A Lot Of Baby Boomers Who Support The Good Guys, BUT

There are a lot of Baby Boomers who DO support the Good Guys, but I fear we're currently outnumbered by the ones who don't. I suspect that some of the latter will wise up as they get older, poorer, and the flip side of the Rethug/"conservative" so-called "Opportunity Society" bites them where it hurts.

:dem:

[Arkana]

9. Whoops.

Apparently I can't read. My bad.

Well, the so-called "Greatest Generation" isn't our base either.

[11 Bravo]

5. Grover Norquist is dumber than a bag of hair.