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Is Coons a Failed Bearded Marxist?

We just followed the debate in Delaware over whether the GOP candidate for governor is a failed witch or a witch wannabe. Now, new reports have raised the question whether her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, 47, is a failed bearded Marxist. You have to love this race.

Republicans have released an article Coons wrote for the Amherst College newspaper when he was 21 entitled “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.” He explained how he went from the founder of the Amherst College Republicans to a Marxist during a trip to Kenya. The only thing missing for Republicans is the suggestion that, while in Kenya, Coons destroyed the birth certificate of Barack Obama.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a curious way of “helping” Coons by referring to him not as a Marxist but his “pet.” Reid is quoted as saying “I’m going to be very honest with you – Chris Coons, everybody knows him in the Democratic caucus. He’s my pet. He’s my favorite candidate.”

It makes Reid sound like Ernst Stavro Blofeld petting Coons and explaining his plans for SPECTRE (not Arlen Specter, but the organization).

So far Coons remains 11 points ahead of O’Donnell indicating that people in Delaware may be more comfortable with alleged Marxists than alleged witches.

In the end, the Delaware campaign does prove Marx correct when he said “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

Source: Fox

24 thoughts on “Is Coons a Failed Bearded Marxist?”

  4. rafflaw,

    “I think I agree with the people of Delaware. A bearded Marxist sounds much better than a pin head witch. O’Donnell makes Palin look like a PHD.”

    I concur. I think a person with a brain makes a much better candidate than one with half a brain.

    Do you suppose O’Donnell gets most of her information from Wiccapedia?

    😉

  5. Byron,

    Oh yes. I know that about Smith and while I do recall you mentioning him in a good light it wasn’t in defending free markets. But if you wonder where my roots are in economics, think more Smith or Keynes, less Marx . . . unless of course you are speaking of Groucho.

  6. Buddha:

    you do understand that Adam Smith is not necessarily the supporter of capitalism that he could have been. He defended it by saying in essence “it delivers to the community a certain good which is better than something else”. Really no defense of capitalism but of the common good which is whatever the most people deem it to be. Not much of a defense of the individual.

    So while Adam Smith saw some things, I am not necessarily sure he is someone I would look to when trying to defend free markets. Which is backed up by your statement.

  7. I think I agree with the people of Delaware. A bearded Marxist sounds much better than a pin head witch. O’Donnell makes Palin look like a PHD.

  9. Man, you guys make me do all the work.

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ9J4M5xN3k&fs=1&hl=en_US]

  10. Well, all I can add is that I don’t think that I’ve ever ameliorated my tendency toward insomnia by reading Marx. On the other hand…..

  11. Byron,

    Tsk, tsk, tsk. Again with the false equivalence. All the way around as LK humorously pointed out.

    You do realize Adam Smith was for government intervention in markets, don’t you?

  13. Huh, I always thought a Russian made that quote (forget which one… maybe Dostoyevsky?) but I guess not.

  15. Byron, “… work like hell and get a little satisfaction but accomplishes nothing at all.”
    —–

    Satisfaction in and of itself is an accomplishment, and one increasingly difficult to come by in the political sphere anyway 🙂

  16. I guess Byron’s not a big fan of Uncle Sam’s military because it’s the largest socialist organization on the planet.

  17. Is Otis running the campaigns……that would be the town drunk off of the Andy Griffith show…..

  19. Marxism and socialism is a lot like masturbation, work like hell and get a little satisfaction but accomplishes nothing at all.

  20. Pet?

    Well isn’t that special. Disrespectful and condescending, but special. If Joe Biden called me his pet, I’d have to urinate on his rug.

    However, Coons has some nice advertising thanks to Jimmy Kimmel.

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7VrMzm6hDE&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]

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