Confessions of a former dittohead /

"In addition to recounting the "thousand small cuts" that led Jim away from Rush and the Republicans - including a friend who had an abortion, a gay college roommate and an ill-fated attempt to join the Young Republicans - Confessions also discusses the major political, economic and s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Derych, Jim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Ig Pub., [2006]
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • My first confession
  • What's with all the hate?
  • Amy's story
  • Love the gay, hate the agenda
  • Watching them make sausage
  • 9/11 changed everything
  • Iraq : my personal road to Damascus
  • From Hannity to humanity
  • The death of fiscal conservatism
  • The last straw
  • You can lead a dittohead to knowledge, but you can't make him think
  • How to talk to a dittohead (and you must!)
  • Silencing the big gun of personal responsibility
  • The weak faith of the religious right
  • The evolution of a wedge issue
  • Beating the gay drumhead
  • The Rodney Dangerfield of issues
  • The whole made-up social security thing
  • Taxes are evil
  • Dittohead judicial philosophy--consistently inconsistent
  • Why torture matters
  • They are the party of the military, we are the party of the troops
  • The log in Rush Limbaugh's eye
  • Treppenwitz.