>dmb says:I > appreciate your generosity to some extent but it's wrong to assign equal > blame to "both sides". To do so would be a case of "grotesque > even-handedness". Nobody said McCain was an unreal American, > a Marxist, a Socialist, a terrorist, a pal to terrorists, a secret > Islamist, an Arab or any such thing. Nobody screamed for McCain's death.
Because leftists rightly considered McCain one of them. Palin, however, was hung in effigy. > There is nobody on the left who can be compared to Hannity, Limbaugh or > the dozens of other such hateful radio talkers. They tried but nobody listened to them. Is Air America still broadcasting? > There was no internet > whispering campaign that accused McCain of being the anti-Christ and > nobody said he wanted to sexualize kindergarteners. Right. The left liked McCain. But their attacks on Palin reached a new low. > It is simply a fact > that the Republican Party's "southern strategy", which they've been using > for at least 40 years, is a divide and conquer tactic. That's what's so > disturbing about Palin's "real America" comments. That is code for "white > America". It is covert racism. "Real America" is racist only to leftists who hurl that invective at anyone who disagrees with their socialist agenda. > And so Murtha's "redneck" comment at least > has the virtue of being accurate, if not polite. If you look at the > percentage of uneducated whites who voted for McCain and at the states > (Nearly all of them were southern and/or rural), Murtha was only being > rude about an obvious demographic fact. A perfect example of leftist bigotry. > And wouldn't you say > that it's entirely appropriate to be angry about such a divisive tactic? > Does it divide us to complain about division? No, they can't reasonably be > compared, much less equated. And I'd add that we live in a social world > that centers around competition and we go to war at the drop of a hat. We > spent countless hours entertaining ourselves with football, big time > wrestling and movies about tough-guy vigilantes. We're surrounded by all > kinds of of aggression and yet we're supposed to be "civil" in our > political discourse? That's crazy. That is some kind of Stockholm syndrome > or battered spouse syndrome. Isn't more reasonable to fight back against > this kind of abuse, this kind of culture, with something like a mature and > well-reasoned argument? We don't want to get down in the gutter with them > or simply throw back a bunch of equally outrageous insults, but I think > it's high time liberals grow a pair and stand up to these bullies.Just > like Obama did.It works. Right. It's high time to stand up to bullies like Jeremiah Wright and terrorists like William Ayers, those two sterling role models for Obama. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
