California Conservative

Why are we conservatives? Barbara Boxer says mama didn’t love us.
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L.A. Times reports: “It may come as a surprise to many of her constituents, but for seven years California Sen. Barbara Boxer has been moonlighting from what she calls her ‘day job’ — as an elected official from the state that boasts the free world’s fifth or sixth largest economy — to write a novel. “A Time to Run” is a for-whom-the-bell-tolls story of a liberal blue-state senator who braves the political mud wrestling in Washington for the sake of her ideals. It is, of course, co-written, with San Francisco author Mary-Rose Hayes.”

Of course. “…a liberal blue-state senator who braves the political mud wrestling in Washington for the sake of her ideals”? *grimace*

Dear readers, it’s a time to puke.

The Accolades: Limosine-liberals offer singing praise
(Where’s Streisand?)

In Boxer’s fictional world, a liberal California senator with views very much like hers goes to bat to defeat the Supreme Court nomination of a woman whose most conspicuous qualification for the job seems to be her conservative credentials — a plot twist Boxer said she added a year and a half ago.

“It’s crazy, the parallels,” the Democrat said on a recent day as she whizzed across Los Angeles in a chauffeured SUV to a Hollywood party honoring her book. “It’s just remarkable that this all happened,” she said, referring to the controversial Supreme Court nomination of conservative Harriet Miers. “My book seemed to be so prescient.”

“It’s practically psychic!” Peggy Northrop, the editor of More Magazine, told Boxer when the senator pulled up at a More party to unveil the book. “It’s so … prescient.”

“Maybe if the whole political thing doesn’t work out you could open a business, Barbara — psychic extraordinaire,” actress Mary Steenburgen, who hosted the party with her husband, former “Cheers” star Ted Danson, told a roomful of Hollywood backers whose fundraising has floated a succession of “blue state” candidates.

As Boxer says, “A Time to Run” is “written out of a blue mind.” It comes off as an airplane read, aimed at liberals.
. . .

She got no argument from Danson at the gathering of wealthy Hollywood liberals in honor of Boxer. The people at this party left their day jobs long ago. Here, Armani mingled with flips-flops, Manolo Blahniks and the kind of deep midday cleavage that would be glaringly out of place in Washington.”

Wow. We couldn’t ask for better examples of shameless self-adulation coming from liberal elites. The writer of this article must be seriously trying to ingratiate herself.

If you care to read any more of this nauseatingly fawning “book review” (if that’s what it’s called), you can do so here. But we’re going to skip ahead.

The Premise: Democrats good, Republicans bad.
(And conservative families are abusive)

In “A Time to Run,” the main characters from the reigning “blue states” — Josh from California and Ellen from equally reassuring New York — are liberal, altruistic, sane. Their affluent families are caring and sharing.

Their red state-born buddy, Greg, is the son of an emotionally abusive Ohio hardware seller former Marine who lost his favorite son in Vietnam. The red states that Greg heads to after graduation are interchangeably dull Siberias where Greg hangs out with the menfolk, bonding over beer, football and hunting.

No stereotyping here.

Josh and Ellen become Left Coast do-gooders. Greg becomes a sociopathic neoconservative journalist, the go-to guy for character assassinations conjured by a right-wing California senator. Boxer said that although she didn’t intend for the characters to represent the American political equation, “I hope people will understand the issues I raise about why people are blue or red or purple.”

Boxer said the novel explores “why people become liberals and conservatives. We explore the battle between liberals and conservatives at so many levels.”
. . .

“It’s so clear the relationship with (Greg’s) dad and what happened to his brother in Vietnam, made a big impact on his life,” Boxer said. “The fact that [Josh and Ellen] had loving families made a very big difference.”

The Politics: Republicans are sinister

Boxer said she believes the Republicans purposefully nominate women and minorities to camouflage policies that undermine their interests.

“I think it’s a tactic and a strategy to confuse the real agenda, which is certainly not seeing the government as a force to give opportunity to women and minorities,” Boxer said. “This is not what the right wing believes government should be doing. So if they put up a woman or a minority they think that that will sort of cover up their real hidden agenda.”

Our Conclusion:

Don’t buy the book. Just read her press releases. They’re free.

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