Jules Likes Bikinis

Jules Crittenden discusses the Two Americas. He links to some Brit papers and my 4th of July Bikini edition. He has pictures. Yum. Here is a bit of what he has to say about the Two Americas.

Brit conducts research among the aboriginals, tries to understand their strange ways. Open-minded UK Guardian sophisticate Linda Grant to gap-toothed Yank hillbilly Republicans: What makes you so small-minded, bigoted and stupid?

Small-town Americans have values and a lot of those values are good ones: neighbourliness, family life, a knowledge of the land and what grows in it. The other America they see on TV seems without ethics - crime, violence, drug addiction, pornography and prostitution - and they don’t want any part of it.

So clear is the divide between big-city and small-town America that one American friend said to me: “These whitebread Republicans are like children - someone has to tell them what to do and what to think, they’re incapable of independent ideas.”

The conviction by the left that the right is stupid is one of the defining and least attractive characteristics of contemporary politics. Assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is too dim to get your point is not itself a particularly brainy way to win others over to the essential correctness of your views.

Jules of course tells the Brits where to get off. And he has some pictures of some very nice full bodied American women in flag bikinis that might help them get off. Needless to say you should read the whole article. And look at the pictures. And don't forget the Sarah Palin Swimsuit Competition now with a link to the video.