And stay out!
So the Republican National Conventioneers won't use the subway for their convention this summer (well, not quite summer, more like week before 9/11).
So what. New Yorkers don't want you there anyway. Speaking as a former long-time straphanger, I can firmly say I wouldn't want to find myself rushing down a flight of stairs in an attempt to catch an uptown N train to find Rick Santorum blocking the passage, lecturing his friends on how the smell is a sign of liberal decadence and the decline of western civilization.
I don't care.
And if he remained in my way, I would not hesitate to shove him.
One of the things that makes drivers so unwilling to switch to transit is that they don't like being around people they don't know without a pane of glass separating them. Conventioneers probably don't want a rude awakening about life beyond their subdivision, so it isn't up to New York to give it to them.
(hat tip: Gothamist)
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rj3 | 02:14 PM |
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You don't like their politics so you don't want them to use or promote mass transit? Are you sure you want to do that to members of the party in control of Congress and the White House?
> And if he remained in my way, I would not hesitate to shove him.
There's the epitome of liberal tolerance for you; when someone disagrees with you, use any excuse you can find to assault them.
Oh, Penguinator, you're trying to find bias where it doesn't exist and proving the conservative persecution complex. I've never seen people of an ideology that held so much sway in the halls of power spend so much time whining about how they're so oppressed.
I'd shove any dumb*ss tourist and I wouldn't hesitate to do so to Santorum as well in spite of his position, not because of his party affiliation.
I live in DC now, where I have plenty of opportunity to shove people in power from both sides. Yet, if they're not in my way, I won't do so.
