Does Sneering Contempt for the Average Voter Hurt a Campaign?

Did you know Britain has elections? I thought they just had a king or something, but it looks like they have an election coming up soon. Now I don’t really know the different parties and how their positions vary on the chief British issues of crumpets and marmite, but it does seem the Labour [sic] Party is emulating the tactics of the left in this country. The other day, Ministerus Prime Gordon Brown talked all nice to an old lady and then, not knowing the microphone (called a “talkee cone” in Britain) was on, basically called her a stupid bigot as soon as he got in his horseless carriage.

People have not liked this.

Yes “sneering contempt for the average citizen” seems to be a campaign tactic falling out of favor both here and abroad. It wasn’t enough to sink Obama’s campaign when he talked about people clinging to guns and religion, but people do seem to be less tolerant of it now. I guess we just don’t really understand where the useless lawyers we elect to serve us get this feeling they’re better than everyone. I never told them they’re better than anyone; actually, I’m pretty sure I told them they’re stupid and a bunch of screw ups. Did you tell them they’re better than everyone? Well, whoever is giving them self-esteem, stop it right now.

19 Comments

  1. Hey – maybe they’ve never known failure before because they went to a progressive school that doesn’t give grades and marks papers down in purple ink instead of red because red is too harsh; and as we all know, honesty is bad if it makes someone sad (hey, that would make a catchy slogan for progressive education and the left in general).

  2. Yeah, they do have elections. What they don’t have is a cuisine. Well, they do have a cuisine but it’s mostly dog food and spotted something or other. McDonalds and Burger King are gourmet cuisine next to what they call a cuisine. In most countries, British cuisine is known as “compost” and “diarreah.”

  3. Dr. Phil told all those politicians and lawyers how great they are on an intervention on Oprah. If Oprah says so, it must be true.

    This goes to the heart of liberal thought, that you and I are inferior to them and must ruled. We are fly-over people, as the lady in Great Britain found out.

  4. The only reason it didn’t hurt Obama last time is that he was running against Bush. Let’s face it, as wrong as the tide of public opinion was, we could have run the risen Christ against Obama and it wouldn’t have mattered. But he won’t get away with that twice.

  5. I was happy to see my post in the sticker thread was awaiting moderation for a few hours. I thought I was losing my touch. Of course, I had no idea why it was in moderation, maybe all my stupid posts are catching up with me. Anyway, I was beaming with pride for a while there.

  6. I’ve been caught in a Proud Infidel ‘pot sticker thread’ several times using that word, Marko. Hell, when I first joined-up here, I didn’t even know what the word ‘pron’ meant. I thought people were misspelling ‘prawn’ and wondering why they were so preoccupied with shrimp. So, I’ve come a long way. I can even use sayings like “That’s my story, and I’m stickin’ with it” now, and, “Get ‘er done” (although, it pains me to note the grimaces on ladies faces at that one.)

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