The always enjoybable Byron York has this (funny?) piece in today’s Washington Examiner:
Are you, by chance, a conservative? A Republican? Did you vote for John McCain last November, as well as the GOP candidate in your local congressional race?
If your answer to these question is yes, then you are very, very strange — and perhaps not even fully American. At the very least, you’re not one of the rest of us.
If you don’t believe it, just read “The Very Separate World of Conservative Republicans,” a new report by Democracy Corps, the political research firm run by Democratic operatives James Carville and Stanley Greenberg.
“The self-identifying conservative Republicans who make up the base of the Republican Party stand a world apart from the rest of America,” write Carville and Greenberg. Conservative Republicans, according to the Democracy Corps research, don’t trust Barack Obama; are scared by the speed with which the president and Democrats in Congress are attempting to enact new programs; don’t like government takeovers of business; and believe that many of their fellow Americans don’t fully appreciate the threat posed by the Democratic agenda.
You might think those are entirely reasonable reactions to the Obama presidency, or are at least within the mainstream of American political debate. But Carville and Greenberg say those beliefs “are not part of the continuum leading to the center of the electorate.” If you hold them, you “truly stand apart.
Read the whole thing here. Carville calling other people “a world apart” sounds the set up of a joke…complete it in the comments.
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