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- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (7): "An Oilfield in the Placenta"
As I'm always telling my right-wing friends how dearly I wish I was a con man, given the sitting-duck population of easy marks willing to believe anything that conservative leaders have so carefully constructed lo these past few decades. No bett ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 05/10/2007 - 9:59am - 2 comments - 0 attachments - 1 point
- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (7): "An Oilfield in the Placenta"
As I'm always telling my right-wing friends how dearly I wish I was a con man, given the sitting-duck population of easy marks willing to believe anything that conservative leaders have so carefully constructed lo these past few decades. No bett ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 05/10/2007 - 9:59am - 2 comments - 0 attachments - 1 point
- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (7): "An Oilfield in the Placenta"
As I'm always telling my right-wing friends how dearly I wish I was a con man, given the sitting-duck population of easy marks willing to believe anything that conservative leaders have so carefully constructed lo these past few decades. No bett ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 05/10/2007 - 9:59am - 2 comments - 0 attachments - 1 point
- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (15)
I was just gazing adoringly at the following addition to my inbox: Dear Fellow Conservative, Do you know which special interest has given more money to the Obama and Clinton campaigns than any other? If you guessed "trial lawyers" -- w ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 08/20/2008 - 2:48pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments - 4 points
- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (14)
This just in from Human Events: Dear Reader, I'm going to tell you something, but you must promise to keep it quiet... You have to understand that the 'elite' would not be at all happy with me if they knew what I was about to tell you. ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 08/14/2008 - 5:10pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments - 1 point
- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (13)
As noted above, a longtime guilty pleasure of this blog has been to reprint the nutty snake-oil appeals that conservative publications send out over the internet. They also, of course, send out fantastic accounts of Ronald Reagan's superhuman feats. ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 08/06/2008 - 7:19pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments - 2 points
- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (12)
... There is no shortage of Republicans treating their constituents like suckers. It's one of the things I find transparent about ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 08/13/2007 - 9:48am - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (9): The snake oil salesmen
I think I'll start writing more about conservative culture. It's something I know a heck of a lot about - too much, surely - and whenever I tell people my favorite stories, their jaws unhinge in shock. I forget how much I take this stuff for gra ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 05/15/2007 - 9:47am - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (10)
I trust this claim from Newsmax.com about as much as I trust this one. P.S. Note how, in the first link above, Mitt is so eager to woo his future wife for a date he secures the use of "a new fastback model made by his father's American ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 05/22/2007 - 11:18am - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Conservatives treat their constituents like suckers (2)
When you elect conservatives they don't make government smaller. They make it bigger - and slower, and less effective, by putting more cronies on the payroll: Under Clinton from 1992 to 2000, according to Princeton political scientist Dav ...
Blog entry - Rick Perlstein - 04/24/2007 - 3:17pm - 1 comment - 0 attachments
