[percy-l] knotheads
Steve Petrica
steve.petrica at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 23:55:22 EST 2008
You know, this level of political "discourse" is really getting old. Since
it's hard to see what it has to do with Percy-oriented "literary and
philosophical discussion," perhaps you could take it somewhere else.
Steve
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Eckert, Robert G SPC MIL USA FORSCOM <
robert.g.eckert at us.army.mil> wrote:
PALIN WAS A CLEAR INDICATION THAT MC CAIN'S ADVISERS WERE NUTS.
> THAT CAMPAIN WAS ALL ABOUT TACTICS AND NOTHING ABOUT ANY PHILOSOPHY; AND
> SHOULD PUT THE
> "NEOCONS" AWAY FOR A TIME.
> THE GOP HAS NO LEADERS IN CONGRESS, AND WILL RISE WITH GOVS LIKE BOBBY
> JINDAL, AND A FEW OTHERS.
> PALIN REMAINS THE DARLING OF THE NUTS, E.G. TALK SHOW HOSTS.
> IN THE LAST ANALYSIS REAGAN WAS A PRAGMATIST.
>
> I LIKE THE TERM "KNOTHEADS".
> THE NEO CONS WERE NEITHER "NEO" NOR "CON"...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: marcus at loyno.edu
> Date: Monday, December 1, 2008 8:53
> Subject: [percy-l] knotheads
> To: percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org
>
>
> > Here's a Percy trace on Wikipedia:
> >
> > >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> >
> > According to Rod Dreher and Steven Greenhut, the Knotheads
> > are one of the three emerging factions, along with the
> > traditional Republican Establishment, and liberal
> > Republicans, that will fight for control of the United
> > States Republican Party following 2008 election. The
> > Knotheads are by far the most right-wing of the three
> > factions. In Dreher's words: "The knotheads believe that
> > Obama's victory came thanks to the treason of some
> > conservative intellectual elites and McCain's failure to be
> > more like Reagan, whatever that means 20 years after the
> > Gipper left the White House. Sarah Palin is the
> > standard-bearer for the talk-radio faction within
> > knotheadism."
> >
> > The term knothead first appears in a political context in
> > Walker Percy's 1971 novel Love in the Ruins. Although a
> > Catholic conservative himself, Percy satirized hard-core
> > rightists in the following passage: "The Knotheads had their
> > unseasonable rages, delusions of conspiracies, high blood
> > pressure, and large bowel complaints." It is not known
> > whether Dreher had this passage in mind when he used the
> > term.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knotheads
> >
> >
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