Editorials /Houston Democrats /Turning on the Juice
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS Houston Democrats by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. 0 ne of the conveniences that Republicans have in choosing their candidates is the presence in American politics of the Avuncular Democrat....
...Notwithstanding all their poetry about Change, their actions reveal that the only change they want is a return to 1976 and government distribution of wealth and red tape...
...It is this public-spirited and stupendously disinterested moral arbiter who has time and again saved the GOP from the extremism that apparently forever lurks in the heart of the party of Coolidge, Hoover, Eisenhower...
...Thus the Avuncular Democrats are against him...
...In Virginia their Anglo-Saxon popes from hill and dale have made Oliver North a candidate for the Senate...
...They raise the frightening specter of his considerable wealth...
...We shall hear from the critics of capitalism and of advertising...
...Doubtless they would give a Baptist minister the same short shrift...
...Well, the latest statistics available from the Bureau of the Census record that in 1991 there were 123 million males in the country, so "many, many" is a lot of wife beaters who "didn't think there was anything the least bit wrong with it...
...0 Turning on the Juice J. Simpson's week of infamy careened into the phony jurisdictions of the noisiest charlatans in the country...
...Dostoevsky wrote vividly of it, as did Conrad and other great chroniclers of human tragedy, and not one of those writers could outrun his dog...
...Perhaps it is about time that the electorate recognize that the Democrats' admonitions against Republican extremism have been inane for decades...
...Senate—even Ted Kennedy and Bob Packwood...
...Like North, Huffington is for limited government and lower taxes...
...As Simpson's court appearances accumulate, she will be joined in her pontifications by all the other charlatans...
...Incidentally, if you are looking for a thread of logic here or even a salient point, forget it...
...yore who warned the Republic of conspiracies being perpetrated by the Pope and his urban hordes of hyphenates in the 1920s to take over the Democratic Party and turn America into the Holy Roman Empire...
...The Democratic sophisticates who warn us of the conspiracies of the Christian Right speak in terms very reminiscent of the rustic 100-percent Americans of Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Times column syndicated by Creators Syndicate...
...Sports stars are indeed exalted to idiotic heights...
...Huffington is pro-choice...
...That is why, through the ages, art has been more admired than sport...
...He has adopted moderate positions on homosexuals in the military...
...Yes I did, for history seems to have again come full circle...
...As the detumescent Simpson is revealing daily, sports stars, especially sports stars who have demonstrated no special attachment to virtue—are not all that special...
...Such a party is not a very trustworthy monitor of extremism...
...Somewhere a few words back I think we lost Miss Quindlen...
...Actually, as Laurence Jarvik of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture pointed out in the Times a couple of months back, Department of Justice National Crime Survey statistics demonstrate that "wife-beating is relatively uncommon compared with other forms of violence against women...
...Well, it is the Democratic Party whose leading minority activists welcome the presence of the Jew-baiting, Catholic-baiting Rev...
...Miss Nelson seems- to oppose sports in general, as well as boys, and perhaps girls...
...I shall not be surprised in the course of Simpson's trial to hear that both he and the men and women of his set indulged in extensive drug use and promiscuity...
...Simpson should have been jailed after his first conviction for battery...
...Right now the Democrats are selflessly warning Republicans of the danger posed to them by the Christian Right...
...They do not confront his claim that a man of Huffington's wealth and probity is less likely to be bought than Senator Feinstein, who, though immensely wealthy herself, is sufficiently miserly to accept vast contributions from the special-interest lobbies Huffington has spurned...
...Instead they resort to their old weapons: fear and class discrimination...
...It is only a matter of time, then, before his abominations will have elicited more absurd pronouncements than the Cold War...
...Boys are given boxing gloves as toys, girls and women who try to join wrestling or football teams are often ridiculed, sexually harassed or simply barred from taking part...
...Then he should have lost all endorsements...
...Moreover, in recent years it has been those crying wolf over "extremism" who have usually been jarringly extreme...
...I suppose one should not be surprised that the party that attempts to embrace militant homosexuals, militant feminists, animal rights loonies, and other exotics would identify fundamentalist Christians as beyond the pale...
...As with the other charlatans who exploit the various decadent movements once deemed progressive, Miss Nelson is disciplined by neither logic, nor the meanings of words, nor orderly argumentation...
...These dangerous Christians have taken over the Republican Party of Texas...
...Not only is extremism less of a threat in the Republican Party but the Republicans also contain more diversity...
...She is the author of The Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football, doubtless a sociological classic...
...He was by then, however, exemplary of the recklessness of certain modern American men and women...
...He favors arts subsidies—though not extravagant, and not beyond the scrutiny of representative government...
...As manners and the code of the gentleman retreat—often under the assault of the so-called progressives—society has become intolerably coarse...
...Truth be known, the Democrats have been hospitable to a far wider array of fanatics than have the Republicans whom they insist we keep an eye on...
...She says, "society's concept of violence is inextricably interwoven with its concept of expected, condoned male behavior...
...They are what Richard Weaver called moral idiots...
...Yes, the Republicans have come up with many mild fellows, but there are those dangerous extremists just behind the potted plants, and conscientious Democrats are always at the ready to admonish the Republicans against this extremism that could kill them at the polls...
...More prisons, more cops, quicker sentencing, longer sentencing, capital punishment...
...Thus they have come up with this frightening fantasy about the Christian Right being the most current edition of GOP extremism...
...They frivol with the deepest human passions and then are astounded when things turn out badly...
...Of course, all the charlatans can hang their pontifications on some nub of truth...
...There is too much violence in our society...
...They take their pleasures absurdly seriously...
...Farrakhan...
...And there has to be an environmentalist twist to the O.J...
...Did I say Anglo-Saxon popes...
...True to their reactionary politics, the Democrats want to exclude from politicsthose who disagree with them...
...High intellect, artistic creativity, character displayed in adversity, are all more admirable than the feats of animals...
...The Republicans may be the party most likely to turn up anti-abortion candidates, but the Democratic Party is actually tyrannized by the pro-abortion activists...
...They say he is willing to buy the election with his millions...
...This June, as the Republicans of Virginia nominated that Bible-pounding, moralistic opponent of abortion 011ie North, 12 The American Spectator August 1994 the Republicans of California nominated Congressman Michael Huffington to oppose Senator Barbara Feinstein...
...And would Miss Quindlen like to join with us lawand-order types and "get tough" with violent criminals...
...She has no point other than some vague disapproval of athletics, traditional American society, and men, particularly self-sufficient men...
...Simpson saga...
...They can run and jump, but so can horses and dogs...
...Someone by the name of Mariah Burton Nelson in the same issue of the Times has let out a shout about how cornmonplace it is for athletes to beat their wives...
...Not to put too fine a point on it, but the prissy shrieks of the Democrats against what they call the Christian Right reveal them for precisely what they are, reactionaries...
...By that point he had proved himself exemplary of nothing worthwhile...
...That violence and murder followed should surprise no one...
...Doubtless even the militant homosexual will find an angle radiating ominous wisdom...
...Through him they could contaminate the entire U.S...
...So thoroughly are the Democrats dominated by the proabortion movement that in their last national convention they barred the anti-abortion Democratic governor of Pennsylvania from even delivering a speech...
...They do not say they oppose him on these issues...
...They take family and divorce lightly...
...Already the preposterous Anna Quindlen in the New York Times has yawped that Simpson's "is the story of a man who, like many, many other men, beat up his wife and didn't think there was anything the least bit wrong with it...
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...Perhaps it is owing to this original scholarship that she makes even more expansive statements than Quindlen...
...The black militants will have their say and the white militants just behind the arras...
Vol. 27 • August 1994 • No. 8
