tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post2957280078437950685..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Pundit war!Robert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-45336121302324963002008-10-20T01:01:00.000-04:002008-10-20T01:01:00.000-04:00Good post, RSM. This entire contretemps reminds wh...Good post, RSM. This entire contretemps reminds why I'm glad I'm not a Republican. It's bad enough that the Dem party has moved so far to the left that it has passed the realm of dragons and is heading over the edge--now we get to watch this knife-in-the-back "punditry" in the Republican realm. (Flat Earth analogy courtesy Bitter Clingers, Inc.)<BR/><BR/>Here's the big thing of which these geniuses of the inner circle are ignorant: The center of power is not geographic anymore. It's the network. People in Wasilla can learn just as much as someone stuck in the damp confines of the Ivy Leagues. People in flyover country are publishing, and producing. People in Texas and Montana are able to learn about any subject as fast as they want. And kids today swim in a sea of connectedness that enables them to know more in a few months than many of us learned in several years of campus-limited, education-reformer-taught "academia."<BR/><BR/>As I have written in emails to some of the better thinkers in the blogosphere, the sad aspect is how limited the thinking by the "elites" has become, and how behind the times they have fallen. You are correct: they need to get out more. Maybe read--and participate in--a blog about networks, electronics, or maybe even Philosophy, like the rest of us "morons" do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-81099334000129508542008-10-19T13:42:00.000-04:002008-10-19T13:42:00.000-04:00Another "barbarian at the gate"-it was getting pre...Another "barbarian at the gate"-it was getting pretty lonely out here! Thank you!<BR/>My wife who is conservative and who grew up in an academic household outside of Cambridge (she's still in the will as far as we can tell)doesn't understand why I was and am thrilled with Sarah and I truly feel that her Ivy League upbringing and education can't understand the blue collar aspect of life that I grew up with, notwithstanding my own educational background. As I always say to here when her "Boston" is showing- "there are a hell of a lot more of "us" than there are of "you".<BR/>I think that our "elites" need to remember that our movement has had as its more fertile breeding grounds the left coast than it has the east. Ronaldus Magnus was from my home State and Barry Goldwater was certainly not educated at St. Albans.<BR/>In the coming years I believe we're going to see an open rebellion within the movement, and perhaps that's a good thing; William Kristol doesn't speak for me-I get the feeling that he looks for a sink to wash his hands everytime he has to interract with someone he perceives as not as intellectually superior as he is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com