A RW'er just revealed that Kerry voters are more concerned with security..

[ck4829]

than Bush Zombies.

National Review Online's Gary L. Gregg argues that we need to preserve the electoral college so that "the real people's vote," i.e. voters in rural communities, is given as much weight as that of "a metropolitan elite who disdain the cultures and values of middle America."
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=17168

Now really Gary? Are the terrorists going to fly a 747 into a farm in some rural community or are they going to fly it into a tall building in a metropolis?

[LostInAnomie]

1. "metropolitan elite who disdain the cultures and values of middle America"

I hate that bullshit. Just because they live in a relatively homogeneous society where their narrow views have never been challenged until now does not mean that they are "Real America".

[Stirk]

2. I think it's hilarious that Bush fans talk about "elitists".

They're ranks are filled with religious fundamentalists who believe god speaks only to them, free-market capitalists who say people are poor because they're inferior, and wild-eyed nationalists who proudly shout about US superiority.

And we're the elitists. Hilarious bullshit.

[Sandpiper]

3. National Review is the very definition of elitist

Bill Buckley and Co. are a band of Patrician, Northeastern, Ivy League, Blue Bloods.

How many Joe Sixpacks do you know who read National Review?

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Wonderful. How the heck can we stay a super nation when

we have idiots saying that the xenophobes in the red states are "real people." The only foreign policy Republicans know to stay on top can be summed up in two words, "Nuke Um!" Also known as the Camp Knukem foreign policy.

[MountainLaurel]

5. To paraphrase Get Your War On

If being an elitist means NOT being the dumbest motherfucker in the room, then hell yes I'm an elitist.

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war34.html

[unpossibles]

6. I am so sick of this attack on the "elite"

by the true elitists.

It's nothing more than a transparent attack on education, a broad world view, and an attempt to better yourself - must keep the populace dumb, prejudiced, and simple in order to control them better I suppose.

Easiest way to do it - it's just like marketing - make them feel insecure and "different" (=bad) if they want to better themselves.

Bastards.

[NewJeffCT]

7. my question is...

All the "High Value Targets" seem to be in blue states. What out there is HV in a red state? The only one I can think of is Hoover Dam, which is in a pink state in Nevada.

State of Liberty, Empire State Building, decadent Hollywood, White House, Congress, Supreme Court, etc.

[leftynyc]

8. The problem is the smaller states get much more weight

than their numbers. These might be a bit off buy Wyoming's 3 electoral votes represents 300,000 per vote.

In New York, each electoral vote equals 900,000 people. So the "real people" (read red state whiners) are given TOO MUCH WEIGHT.