John McCain Says American Couch Potatoes Eat at McDonalds Because of... Political Correctness?

Wow. He really is the stupidest man alive:

http://www.contingencies.org/septoct08/mccain.pdf: The final important principle of reform is to rediscover our sense of personal responsibility to take better care of ourselves and our children.... Parents who don’t impart to their children a sense of personal responsibility for their health, nutrition, and exercise--vital quality-of-life information that political correctness has expelled from our schools--have failed their responsibility. Also, parents have to share in the responsibility to ensure that their children are covered by health insurance if, as is often the case, options are already available to them.... The “solution,” my friends... resides... with well-informed American families making practical decisions to address their imperatives for better health and more secure prosperity.... [W]e have always trusted in ourselves to meet any challenge that required only our ingenuity and industry to surmount. Any “solution” that robs us of that essential sense of ourselves is a cure far worse than the affliction it is meant to treat.

If I were a yellow-dog Republican this would make me an Obama supporter. There are some things just too stupid to be borne.

Comments

[Anomalous]

I'll say again.
I think that at least some readers of this blog and others, those with time on their hands [Students?]- should wade out into the muck of the right-wing blogisphere and expose the readership of those sites, which has now swelled with the ranks of the ignorant and fearful, to precisely the facts, figures and general data they will never get from their hosts.

I posted this request at Econspeak (ex-Maxpseak) and Crooked Timber and it was treated either as insult or as spam. For the first time I felt I wanted to agree with Cass Sunstein. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/11/07/sunstein/

One respondent wrote: "blogs are about bonding with allies, not convincing the undecided. People who get it should be writing letters to local papers and volunteering for Obama. The comment box is not the public sphere, folks..."

I don't even understand the logic of that last sentence. The genealogy yes, but it's not one I'd choose to defend.

[jcricket]

Sorry anamalous, that won't work. First, at places like RedState even right-wingers who criticize conservatives get banned from posting.

Second, as a recent study proves, providing died-in-the-wool conservatives with refutations of their deeply held beliefs makes them MORE likely (not less) to cling to those beliefs. If 30% of people believed the wrong thing before you started talking to them, 60% will believe it after you provide them incontrovertible proof they are wrong. Truth is the anti-penicillin for hard core conservatives.

I know that seems shocking, but it's true. I can't embed a link, but search the Washington Post for the recent article about the study.

The best things for Democrats to do are:

1) Talk to already sympathetic people and make sure they vote. Convince the apathetic ("elections don't matter", "Democrats suck only slightly less than Republicans") to vote.

2) Ensure the GOP cannot suppress votes and voters with their dirty tricks - or at least keep this kind of shenanigans to a minimum.

3) Talk to the "uncoverted" (to either side), and make sure they vote for us.

Talking to wingers and hard-core conservatives is a lost cause. It's like trying to get an unrepentant drug addict or alcoholic to quit. They have to hit their own personal rock bottom (bankruptcy due to health care costs? gay son denied treatment? daughter gets pregnant by rapist and can't get abortion?) before they come around on their own.

[anomalous]

"First, at places like RedState even right-wingers who criticize conservatives get banned from posting."
I've spent hours at Patterico. I have no experience with redstate. I've been banned twice a Patterico under different ip's but only after finally losing patience and flying off into streams of expletives. I've been "disemvoweled" by B. DeLong as well and banned by half the posters at CT (and complimented by another).

Keep your cool and respond to lies and insults with facts. The traffic at Patterico has basically doubled over the past few months. The same is true for TPM. and other larger sites left and right. The new readers may be lazy fools but they're not ideologues. They are the unconverted. But the commenters at that site haven't changed much at all: it's the same sullen bunch of idiots. On economics they'll call you a communist so post links from Calculated Risk or Big Picture- Stalinists all!

C&P from any of the links today on McCaim's economic lunacy would be seen by many thousands of people who would never know otherwise. Depressing isn't it?

People shouldn't vote for fascists but in a crisis many will. That's the most important thing to remember.

[Maynard Handley]

"Parents who don’t impart to their children a sense of personal responsibility for their health, ...--vital quality-of-life information that political correctness has expelled from our schools"

So it's political correctness that keeps accurate information about reproductive health out of schools?
That's an *unorthodox* interpretation.

[Dan'l]

"PC killed exercise" -- I think he means equity in sports led to cutbacks in some programs for boys. A common conservative complaint, but he won't spell it out because criticizing girls' teams is not the way to win over the independent women's vote.

If it is not that, then who knows what it means.

[Dan'l]

"PC killed exercise" -- I think he means equity in sports led to cutbacks in some programs for boys. A common conservative complaint, but he won't spell it out because criticizing girls' teams is not the way to win over the independent women's vote.

If it is not that, then who knows what it means.

[howard]

dan'l, it's even better than that: sarah pallin admires title IX!

[Steve Henley]

Ya John McCain is over the TOP is his health care plans. The Iowa Democrats put out a video where he not only mixes up all the facts, but he also consistently talks about "Shaq's Challenge"---

quote from the video "Shaq Challenged ME"

it's pretty funny-- check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3JVzb9E0Ms

[Jen]

Wait, isn't John McCain overweight himself? Pot, meet kettle.