Merle Haggard, who for years was broadly painted as just a backwards, s%it-kicking Okie is experiencing a renaissance of sorts… a renaissance that we can’t help but note coincides with his decision to come out and declare for Hillary.
Fawning article by “Primary Colors” author, Joe Klein can be found here.
Using Haggard as the context, Klein delves deeper into the dissatisfaction of white male voters with the Democrat Party over the past 40 years and the evolution of the “Reagan Democrat”. But he notes, perhaps Haggard’s leftward lurch is a portending sign of things to come. The money quote:
“Is it possible now, with the Republicans diving into foolish militarism and the indulgence of Thou-shalt-not killjoys, that Reagan Democrats might be tempted to come home?”
“Thou-shalt-not killjoys”….. That one left us in stitches. We’ll try to remember that next time we read about yet another community that wants to ban cigarettes in homes or passes ordinances dictating what restaurants can and can’t serve. We’ll try to remember the general Party affiliation of those do-gooding nags ordering us into the doctor’s office or kicking us off our dirt bikes and quads because of the endangered African Dung Beetle.
Sorry, Joe… You couldn’t be more wrong but as we’ve posted before, we welcome the continued misreading of the political tea leaves on matters such as these. Honestly, do these political wag-types live under a rock?
Fawning article by “Primary Colors” author, Joe Klein can be found here.
Using Haggard as the context, Klein delves deeper into the dissatisfaction of white male voters with the Democrat Party over the past 40 years and the evolution of the “Reagan Democrat”. But he notes, perhaps Haggard’s leftward lurch is a portending sign of things to come. The money quote:
“Is it possible now, with the Republicans diving into foolish militarism and the indulgence of Thou-shalt-not killjoys, that Reagan Democrats might be tempted to come home?”
“Thou-shalt-not killjoys”….. That one left us in stitches. We’ll try to remember that next time we read about yet another community that wants to ban cigarettes in homes or passes ordinances dictating what restaurants can and can’t serve. We’ll try to remember the general Party affiliation of those do-gooding nags ordering us into the doctor’s office or kicking us off our dirt bikes and quads because of the endangered African Dung Beetle.
Sorry, Joe… You couldn’t be more wrong but as we’ve posted before, we welcome the continued misreading of the political tea leaves on matters such as these. Honestly, do these political wag-types live under a rock?
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Is it possible now, with the Republicans diving into foolish militarism
"Foolish militarism?!?" Who wrote that line for him? I just can't see Merle Haggard knocking back brewskis using phrases like that with his buddies.
Haggard's whole line of reasoning as presented in the article didn't make a lot of sense (his two heros are Reagan and Clinton..?). But hey, he's a musician - whaddya gonna do?
One-o-my fave 'good ole boys' - Merle Haggard - sliding to the left???? I don't think I can handle that one - instead of him bein' an Okie from Muskogee, he sounds like he's morphing into 'an Arkie full-o-malarkey'. What a tragedy!! And yeah, you know them musician-types (per Dean) - they tend to run to 'flakey' on occasion.........
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