Naturalized-Texan
07-12-2003, 11:24 AM
The following essay was published in a small, now defunct, magazine, the Slick Willie Wire, following the 1994 elections where the Republicans regained control of Congress.
A Well-Informed Electorate
By Naturalized-Texan
After the 1988 elections, which George Bush won in a landslide, the liberal media complained that the electorate was apathetic and ill informed. The liberals maintained that, if the people were better informed, they would have voted overwhelmingly for Michael Dukakis.
The liberals were somewhat mollified when Clinton was elected in 1992 and they praised the voters for being well informed. However, as opposition to the Clinton agenda increased, they began to complain that the people were not being informed about the “benefits” of the Clinton programs. They advised the White House that it needed to do a better job of getting its message out to the people. Remember the health care bus tour across the country that was greeted by loud anti-Hillary demonstrators? That was the administration’s attempt to get its message out.
The hostile reception received by the bus tour caused the media to re-think its position. In the months between the bus tour and the 1994 elections, liberal pundits in the media started complaining that the people were too well informed. We knew too much.
Those media liberals were upset that the people were learning things that the liberals were trying to keep hidden from us. They thought that if they never reported what Clinton and Congress were trying to do, we would never find out the truth.
The liberals didn’t want us to learn about the devilish details of Hillary’s health care plan, but, fortunately, we did. For example, we learned the details about the jail terms and fines that we would receive for exercising our freedom to choose a physician.
They didn’t want us to learn about how Jack Brooks sneaked $10 million of special pork for his alma mater into the recently passed Pork Bill (Oops! I mean “Crime” Bill.) after the conference committee had completed agreement on the contents of the bill, but we found out.
They didn’t want us to learn about the liberals in Congress sneaking lastminute provisions into the lobbying bill requiring grass-roots organizations to register as lobbyists as part of an effort to curtail the flood of conservative grassroots letters, faxes, and phone calls to Congress, but we did.
Because the electorate is so well informed, we saw through the liberal media lies about the Republican “Contract with America.” We saw through Ann Richards’ mud slinging in Texas and Bill Clinton’s lies about the Reagan years.
The November elections proved that the electorate is now better informed than at any time in recent memory. That informed electorate got rid of Jack Brooks, Ann Richards, Tom Foley, Jim Sasser, Dan Rostenkowski, Harris Wofford, Mario Cuomo, and many, many other liberals who have been ruining our nation. Good riddance! That informed electorate swept the Republicans into control of both houses of Congress and into a majority of the state houses.
Why are the people so much better informed now? We have so many more sources of information now that we don’t have to rely on the liberal dominated media as our only source of information. We have radio talk shows, cable television, conservative magazines and newsletters, and even a few conservative newspapers. Because of all of these other sources of information, we have now learned that the liberals in the government and in the media have been lying to us for many years. Once the electorate came to that realization, we threw the bums out.
But, of course, that is not the whole story. In the recent elections, the American people reaffirmed their natural conservatism. The vast majority of us Americans live our lives conservatively. Most of us work hard, raise our families to be good citizens, are faithful to our spouses, and don’t do drugs. Because we were better informed, a large majority of us finally realized that only the Republican Party reflected that natural conservatism and voted that way.
Three cheers for a well-informed electorate!
A Well-Informed Electorate
By Naturalized-Texan
After the 1988 elections, which George Bush won in a landslide, the liberal media complained that the electorate was apathetic and ill informed. The liberals maintained that, if the people were better informed, they would have voted overwhelmingly for Michael Dukakis.
The liberals were somewhat mollified when Clinton was elected in 1992 and they praised the voters for being well informed. However, as opposition to the Clinton agenda increased, they began to complain that the people were not being informed about the “benefits” of the Clinton programs. They advised the White House that it needed to do a better job of getting its message out to the people. Remember the health care bus tour across the country that was greeted by loud anti-Hillary demonstrators? That was the administration’s attempt to get its message out.
The hostile reception received by the bus tour caused the media to re-think its position. In the months between the bus tour and the 1994 elections, liberal pundits in the media started complaining that the people were too well informed. We knew too much.
Those media liberals were upset that the people were learning things that the liberals were trying to keep hidden from us. They thought that if they never reported what Clinton and Congress were trying to do, we would never find out the truth.
The liberals didn’t want us to learn about the devilish details of Hillary’s health care plan, but, fortunately, we did. For example, we learned the details about the jail terms and fines that we would receive for exercising our freedom to choose a physician.
They didn’t want us to learn about how Jack Brooks sneaked $10 million of special pork for his alma mater into the recently passed Pork Bill (Oops! I mean “Crime” Bill.) after the conference committee had completed agreement on the contents of the bill, but we found out.
They didn’t want us to learn about the liberals in Congress sneaking lastminute provisions into the lobbying bill requiring grass-roots organizations to register as lobbyists as part of an effort to curtail the flood of conservative grassroots letters, faxes, and phone calls to Congress, but we did.
Because the electorate is so well informed, we saw through the liberal media lies about the Republican “Contract with America.” We saw through Ann Richards’ mud slinging in Texas and Bill Clinton’s lies about the Reagan years.
The November elections proved that the electorate is now better informed than at any time in recent memory. That informed electorate got rid of Jack Brooks, Ann Richards, Tom Foley, Jim Sasser, Dan Rostenkowski, Harris Wofford, Mario Cuomo, and many, many other liberals who have been ruining our nation. Good riddance! That informed electorate swept the Republicans into control of both houses of Congress and into a majority of the state houses.
Why are the people so much better informed now? We have so many more sources of information now that we don’t have to rely on the liberal dominated media as our only source of information. We have radio talk shows, cable television, conservative magazines and newsletters, and even a few conservative newspapers. Because of all of these other sources of information, we have now learned that the liberals in the government and in the media have been lying to us for many years. Once the electorate came to that realization, we threw the bums out.
But, of course, that is not the whole story. In the recent elections, the American people reaffirmed their natural conservatism. The vast majority of us Americans live our lives conservatively. Most of us work hard, raise our families to be good citizens, are faithful to our spouses, and don’t do drugs. Because we were better informed, a large majority of us finally realized that only the Republican Party reflected that natural conservatism and voted that way.
Three cheers for a well-informed electorate!