Georgiana Vines has stirred a tempest in a teapot by bringing up the fact that-perish the thought-State Representative Frank Niceley referred to Tennessee House Speaker-designate Beth Harwell as "a good lookin' woman." What Niceley actually said to Harwell was a number of years ago was "what you've got going for you is you're good lookin' but women don't hate you." Niceley is not only this writer's State Representative, but is a personal friend and a friend of the work done in this space, and one of the reasons Niceley is consistently re-elected with such large majorities is that unlike many people in politics, there is little to nothing that is phony or a false front about Frank Niceley. He tells you the truth as he sees it, and if you don't like it you don't have to like him. "You might as well be straight with people," Niceley once told this writer, "because there are just some people in politics who aren't going to like you no matter what you do."
Nonetheless, Niceley's comments have, as it can be assumed that he expected, aroused controversy with a certain subset of the militant anonymous Left of the blogosphere, one of whom insists that Niceley believes it to be the 1950's:
The issue is NOT whether or not Beth Harwell is insulted by the comment, its that even though 1952 has come and gone, Frank Nicely still believes its okay to conduct politics as if we’re still mired in the ’50′s.
Most people on the militant Left absolutely despise the 1950's. Why do liberals hate a time when America was literally at the height of its prestige and was beloved the world over, especially since they claim that their Messiah Barack was sent to restore us to that hallowed status?
One has to suppose that it is probably the low divorce rate in those days, and the reality that there were not abortuaries in our major cities legally murdering children with the sanction of the state. Television was such that you couldn't even say the word "pregnant" on the air, let alone air some of the repugnant filth that passes for network television in this day and age. People understood that Marxism was a threat to the American way of life, not a "new way" to be celebrated with Athenian rallies at Mile High Stadium and a clique of brainwashed zombies screaming "yes we can." Society valued a family, and understood collectively that this meant a mother, father, children, and even extended family, and of course men are evil so God forbid that a man should be at the head of the house, taking responsibility for his progeny.
None of this is to say that the 1950's were perfect-far from it, nor is it to say that we should return to the '50's. Yet it is always interesting to note how much hatred the Left has for the 50's. Frank Niceley should take it as a compliment that some liberal on Post Politics thinks that he comes straight out of the 1950's, because that means that he is still Tennessee's most conservative political leader, and this writer is his proud constituent.
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