Did Liberals Take My Advice From Two Years Ago?

I had forgotten all about it, but right after Democrats took power in January 2009, I wrote a post on advice for them now that liberals were in power. I originally wrote it for Jonah Goldberg who was going on NPR to talk about the subject, but he didn’t end up using any of it because he’s stupid. Anyway, I think it’s worth revisiting as a postmortem. Basically, liberals didn’t follow any of it, but here’s the one they seemed to have the most trouble with:

If the American people turn against your policies, don’t just shout, “I know better than you, you inbred, sky fairy-worshiping hillbillies!” That hardly ever helps.

That’s probably the crux of their problem right there. I probably should have all mentioned not dismissing concerns using analogies about ditches and Slurpees, but they probably wouldn’t have listened to that either. Anyway, I guess I’ll try again with some more advice when they wind up in the situation again decades from now.

17 Comments

  1. “Blaming Bush for problems is going to be harder the longer it’s been since he was in office; you’ll eventually have to find a new scapegoat. The Jews tend to be the popular choice.”

    It’s been two years and they’re still blaming Bush…lucky Jews

  2. If I were a Democrat right now I would be resuming the Salem witch trials and Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton would be ordered captured and put in stocks. We could then break out the old dunking chair…that would be cool! Catie (wanna see up my Kiester) Couric might wish to take her turn, if not we will just duck tape her down and start a dunkin’ Then we could start a rumor that Olberman is a Warlock. But that he’s not just any Warlock. He’s the Warlock of Warlocks! We’ll see how that works out for Keith. Oh, I’m not a Democrat, but will fake it for the above festivities! I’ll wear a Twitter T-Shirt, then everyone will know I’m teh ghey! I’ll blend right in!

    Us Hillbillies have a few tricks up our sleeves…

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