Red Country adds Washington State
May 15th, 2008 by Republican By DefaultThere’s another conservative in Western Washington who has entered the blogosphere.
Living in this area with a vocal liberal minority can be tough on conservatives. Liberals have trouble understanding that conservatives are not the drooling idiots portrayed by liberals on television. Those are a figment of the imaginations of intolerant leftists who would rather shout-down their opposition than offer a reasoned response.
So when a conservative stands up and offers a reasoned argument on a local issue, several liberals will seem to go into some sort of spasmodic rage. I know they can’t help it. Even college educated liberals have never had to face any opposition to their ideals. Facing a conservative must be something akin to first contact with an alien species.
So I’d like to welcome Red Country - Washington State to the battlefield of ideas in Puget Sound. I’ve added the site to my blogroll so you can find it anytime.
May 18th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Regarding Red Contry–Washington State, I’m glad to see there is another voice for conservative principles in Washington. However, your use of the phrase, “liberal minority,” has me puzzled. I live within the I-5 Puget Sound corridor of Western Washington. From my own perceptions, I’d hardly call Washington as having a “liberal minority,” especially when considering the radical element from Evergreen State college in Olympia, the Democrat controlled congress in the capitol, and the liberal elites in Seattle. Are you using the phrase in a facetious manner, or do you really have proof that liberals in Washington are a minority? It has not been my previous experience, but I’d sure as heck like it if I found out it was true.
May 18th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Sorry, I didn’t qualify that very well. I was referring to Tacoma’s downtown crowd. They’re very vocal about liberal issues, but they don’t realize that they’re in a community that votes Democrat not because the majority of voters are also liberal, but because of unions and government jobs and because of failures of the Republican party to make a distinction.
I think it can be applied throughout the area, though. There’s a difference between being a vocal liberal and voting Democrat, which puts them in the majority of voters.
Also, I think that there are a of conservatives who don’t vote in elections who would likely sway some elections if they did, or at least if they knew who to vote for. Western WA is difficult for conservatives because of the failures of the Republican party. In some states it’s a safer bet that if you vote for someone with an ‘R’ by their name they’ll be at least somewhat conservative. That just isn’t so around here.
I think if conservative candidates could get the support they need from the Republican party and could get their voice out past the media, a lot more people would vote for them. They have a superior message that resonates with normal working people as opposed to the liberal message that only resonates with a minority. A good example of this is that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were supported by a majority even when liberals were working hard against them. It wasn’t until Bush and his administration failed in some areas that support for the war dropped.