OMG, smoking dope causes blogging!

How many of the readers of this blog have enjoyed a few bong hits? How many ‘graduated’ to heroin? I suspect that the ratio is far from unity. There is no causal linkage but there is a lot of hysteria out there.

One might as well claim that drinking wine or beer with a meal leads one to grain guzzle grain alcohol or absinthe.

There is a subset of conservatism with some libertarian and even neo-populist roots. It eschews neo-puritanism and worship of our alleged elitist betters. Some call the movement ‘SouthPark Republicans’.

GWB stood against an onslaught of criticism after 9/11 and kept the ban on racial profiling. That is why we search menacing 80 year old white women in on walkers the same as Twenty year old guys from Syria. From a short term security point of view it doesn’t make sense, but from a long run perspective it does. It keeps our enemies from making plants of devises and easy adaptation. It regards the dignity of each of us and refuses to convict us based upon ethnic group affiliation.

Not even a good try, but there is no doubt that your party is working overtime to try to look more inclusive than it is. But the Southern Strategy still lives for you and as long as it does you can count on the South being about your only source of political success.

I think Republicans have done a good job. The reason R’s are so strong in the old south is because of the fact that race is no longer the policy divider it once was. When race was not an issue, evangelicals in the south united with those across the country. How is that a surprise?

A small contingent of Lilly white republicans fretted that Democrats were beating us over the head in the south with the civil rights issue, but even they did not favor segregation. They wanted to turn a blind eye to Democrat oppression for short term gain. It was not until Truman that some elected Democrats really joined Republicans in supporting Civil Rights. It culminated when Johnson put together a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to pass the civil rights laws in 1964 and 1965. It turned out to be great for both parties because once segregation was off the table, it allowed a more natural realignment of the parties.

Jackie Robinson and MLK sr were Republicans along with the majority of blacks because the party was the voice of equality.

Back to the thread, it is a state issue. That is where it needs to be argued. The federal responsibility is in commercial travel and at the border.

We all know that even a contact high is the first step to firing up with heroin.

Just say: “Yo!”

But I don’t have any problem with the legalization of marijuana, either.