Democrats Can’t Stand Those Icky NASCAR Types
From Charlotte.com
NASCAR fans might seem rabid, but are they actually contagious?
Getting a hepatitis shot is standard procedure for travelers to parts of Africa and Asia, but some congressional aides were instructed to get immunized before going to Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord and the racetrack in Talladega, Ala.
The House Homeland Security Committee planned a fact-finding trip about public health preparedness at mass gatherings and decided to conduct the research at two of the nation’s most heavily attended sporting events, NASCAR’s Bank of America 500 event this weekend and the UAW-Ford 500 last weekend.
Staff who organized the trips advised the NASCAR-bound aides to get a range of vaccines before attending — hepatitis A, hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria and influenza.
And according to The Washington Times, it was only the Republican staffers who weren’t afraid of NASCAR cooties.
A committee staffer says that the Republican staffers have declined the shots but that two Democrat staffers were immunized before attending the race at Talladega last weekend.
This type of elitism is what dominates the thinking of the Democrat majority. Since Ohio is one of those many “fly over” states, I wonder what these same Democrats think of Ohioans?
My father always told me that the “Democrats are the party of the people.” I always told him that the Democrat party he thought he knew died with Scoop Jackson, FDR, HST, JFK and HHH. The new, elitist, la-la land dem/libs oozed up into the leadership of the party in 1972 when George McGovern was the annointed leftist in the presidential contest, and the party has slid down into socialism, statism, “nanny-ism” and a hate America kind of snobbery and phony globalism ever since. The admonition to get “innoculated” against the unhygienic, disease-ridden “Great Unwashed” (to quote H. L. Mencken) is a picture perfect example of Democrat elitism. The party has lost touch with the very people it claims to speak for. If my father were alive, he might now agree with me. The Democrat party is absolutely no longer “The Party of the People,” if it ever was.
Excellent point!
Sadly, today’s Democrats are not the party of Andrew Jackson… If they were, I would join as Jackson is probably my favorite President to read about.
This elite snobbery is what the Dems try to accuse Republicans of… But the true snobs are in the Howard Dean Democrat crowd.
Oh c’mon, Matthew. This can’t be real. Not that Democrats don’t believe this, but for someone to admit it is beyond stupidity, especially in an election year. This is the type of thing that can kill a campaign with a large segment of voters.
when I saw this I almost choked on my coffee. I think I had a flashback to John Kerry in 2004.
Dear Speaker Pelosi:
Can you please continue doing these type of things to remind the American people of why they inherantly do not vote Democratic except when the GOP screws the pooch and Dems can run on “hey, we ain’t Republicans” slogan.
Keep up the great work…
xoxoxo….
Republican Voter
One could easily draw any number of conclusions from the facts you presented.
You say the democrats chose to get the shots because they are afraid of NASCAR fans.
I say the republicans didn’t get shots because they are afraid of needles.
Generally speaking, Joseph, it’s the dem/libs who want to express their cowardice by withdrawing from the fighting in Iraq in the middle of the war. Quiting in the middle of a war, a Democrat specialty since Vietnam. And you say that Republicans are afraid of…needles? Cute, but not very accurate.
If you are looking for accurate, man, you are in the wrong place.
It is, obviously, not ‘acurate’ to infer that all Democrats are afraid of NASCAR because two Democratic staffers followed committee recommendations and two Republican staffers did not.
You could just as easily deduce that all Republicans don’t follow recommendations or that all Democrats do.
The logic doesn’t work.
p.s. Your father was right.
Now, now. You are just upset that the leaders of your party got busted for being the out of touch, Ivory Tower, elitist, peacenik, commies they really are. (ok, I had to add peacenik and commies as I am trying to revive some of the fun terms we use to use for the utopian wackos on the left. C’mon, join in…it is fun).
Hey, I was not pleased over the last year when the GOP has been branded the corrupt, hooker procuring, wide-stancing, toe-tapping hippocrites. Are either entirely true…of course not. But each of us have fun goofing on the other.
Speaking of dad’s…a quote my dad use to say from Winston Churchill, “If you are 20 years old and you are not liberal you have no heart. If you are 30 years old and you are liberal you have no brain.”
A truer statement has never been uttered.
Jeepers, Joseph, do you actually mean to say that not all dem/libs are obsessive/compulsive about associating closely with the Common People? If so, then do you also really mean to imply that not all Republicans are afraid of needles? These kinds of revelations take my breath away, and I appreciate your trouble in sharing.
Pop was dead wrong. I’m just sorry you haven’t caught up to the true nature of the Democrat party of the 21st century-pro-abortion, pro-same sex “marriage,” anti-defense, pro-gun control, pro-high taxes and big government, pro-unlimited illegal immigration, anti-military, tree-huggin’ whackos who blame our current solar heating cycle on mankind’s mopeds. “Democrat” nowadays means government-run health care on the Canadian/British/French models, retreat from our enemies in the Middle East let the devil take the hindmost (including Israel), a wide-open definition of marriage including polygamy and polyandry and plural “marriages” and a womb-to-tomb nanny state that will give our citizens everything except security and freedom. Wake up, Joseph. Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but Mrs. Bill Clinton is NOT FDR, Chuck Schumer is NOT Scoop Jackson and Al Sharpton is NOT Martin Luther King.
While I realize it would ruin the whole “cooties” aspect, when you read the first linked article it points out very clearly why the recommendation for the vaccines was made:
“Since committee staff members are visiting hospital and other health-care facilities available at or near these venues, including areas where groups of people are detained before being transferred to other off-site facilities, I believe that the recommendation (not requirement) that our congressional staff receive these same immunizations was sound,” Thompson said in a letter responding to Hayes issued Wednesday.
Nice!