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"I think Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont, where it belongs!"*

Not sure how to spot the liberals among ye? Now you know! So keep your eyes open and be alert! The latte-drinkers and sushi-eaters MUST. BE. STOPPED.

*The above was used The Club for Growth, a Republican PAC that helps elect Reagonomic-type-only Republicans to office (let's call these Trickle Down Republicans. TDR.).

The Club for Growth's president, Stephen Moore, was interviewed by Terry Gross on July 15th. I liked this interview for several reasons.

• It showed Terry very rationally interviewing someone from the Right -- great contrast for how Bill O'Reilly would like to portray Gross after she interviewed him last year.
• Stephen Moore was very friendly as well. It was nice to hear two people who probably didn't agree with each other have such a nice conversation. More of these please.
• I get to understand a little bit more about where the Republicans are coming from -- both in their goals as well as they way the incorrectly paint the so-called "left."

Points Gross makes that Moore has to concede:

1. Conservatives love to bash Hollywood as a liberal bastion exploiting sex and violence. Yet...
2. Hollywood is the one of our country's best examples of a Capitalist Success Story (so shouldn't the right love that?)
3. The successful politicians to come out of Hollywood have all been Republicans (thinking Reagan, Eastwood, Shwartzenegger, and let's not forget Sonny Bono)
4. Really, the violence is not viewed as negatively as the sex. (This makes no sense to me at all).

Finally, the thing that is really sticking in my craw is this creation of the Big Bad Elite that all truly good conservatives should be afraid of. And when the right uses the word Elite they are specifically talking about professors and people with talking professions, as if talking professions are the big power-mongers in our country. What I want to know is where does money come in and when did talking become more powerful than money? How is a college professor more powerful than someone who manages a hedge fund?