Yes, I have liberal friends
Quite a few of them, actually, and they are all basically decent people. We are all misguided about one thing or another, and I am certainly no exception.
On this I am clear, though: the clear statist and socialist agenda of American liberals, including their butt-buddies the press, is bad for this country in every conceivable way. There may have been a time when the democrat party was the party of joe sixpack, but it is now populated exclusively by power hungry elitists.
Broad, god love her, sends a mail entitled “Don’t hate the messenger” which tells a tale of Palin as a product of “White privelege”. It isn’t worth reproducing here, because it’s just a statist piece of filth, full of out of context quotes, miscaracterization, and outright lies. I won’t bother to fisk it because it is not worth my time, and frankly beneath me, but if anyone wants a good giggle let me know and I’ll pass it along.
This does not make Broad a bad person. And it certainly doesn’t change the way I feel about her. But it is clearly the result of a staunch adherence to the increasingly desperate desire of the Democrat party to hold onto power in the face of their abject failure to govern effectively. The current congress, with the lowest approval rating in history, has caused the country more trouble than any individial in history. The current financial crises can be traced back entirely to the congress, as well as $4 + gasoline, illegal immigration issues, 9/11, (Jamie Gorelick, your hubris is on line 1) etc etc etc.
Look, Obama is running against Mc Cain. Democrats are terrified of Palin becuase she’s popular so they’re making up all kinds of bullshit about her to try to steal her popularity from her. I don’t think it’s going to work, and here’s why: All the reasons Dems give why we should hate her, are reasons we love her and we’re happy she’s there. Even if they’re lies. At this point, I believe she coul;d throttle her mother to death on network TV and still be the cream of the crop, because she would still be more qualified to operate at an executive level than Joe Biden, let alone Barack Hussein Obama, who she is NOT RUNNING AGAINST.
I sort of understand the mindset of the Democrat. It’s mostly about feelings; and lord knows, everyone wants to feel good. I feel best when my country’s future is secure, and the freedom of it’s peoples is secure. That future, that freedom, is best embodied by conservatism (Classical conservatism, not McCain conservatism, which I loathe) and is most in danger from modern liberalism. I’m willing to deal with a little danger and inconvenience for freedom, and everyone should be.
I fear I don’t have the patience anymore to deal with liberal bullshit. When I get pieces of manufactured glurge designed to denegrate the character of decent people, I should patiently explain how and why it’s wrong, but more and more my explanations fall on deaf ears. So I do what I have left: I work to effect change (Real change, not hopeychangey Obamessiah change) by helping to improve the lives of people around me in the ways I can, and I pray for the misguided that they might someday see how flawed is the vision of the world they have. My liberal friends are dearest to me, in many ways, because just surrounding yourself with people with whom you agree leaves you half empty. I daily hold my beliefs up against those whose conflict with mine, and I have not yet found mine wanting.
UPDATED!
Damn, I just did a two second google search and found this piece, which made me lol. It sure did.
Damn, Van Helsing, welcome to the blogroll!!
Broad? And to think I loved her…
Oh well…
Was this necessary?
And right back atcha, Dick.
Yes, it was. If you can’t handle the discourse, don’t engage in it. You can’t spread shit around and expect not to be called on it.
I still love ya, Broad. You can hang with anybody. And that’s coming from an old grunt who’s hung out with the toughest, meanest motherfuckers on the planet.
Um, yeah, we HAD the discourse — in a private conversation. You don’t mention that, of course; it looks cooler to your readership to hold me up as one of your “liberal friends.” I mean, you don’t even really know WHAT I stand for, but whatever.
Don’t worry — you’ll NEVER get anything from me again. Promise you that.
So I was supposed to just dsay ‘yep, you’re right, Palin is an ass, and Obamessiah/Billary are born to lead this country? Sorry. I did what decent people do, I spoke out agaist the bullshit. “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing ”
Sorry. If you don’t want it discussed publicly then make that clear in the subject line of your email. Anything political that comes across my desk is fodder for the blog, and you damned sure didn’t expect i was going to let such a patently hate filled, lie filled, bullshit fillled piece stand.
Og,
This line: “ I’m willing to deal with a little danger and inconvenience for freedom, and everyone should be.” made my quote of the day yesterday.
Damn skippy, brother…
Supporting what you believe is all fine and great – shout your indignation from the rooftop, for all I care. But don’t deride me personally because I have a difference of opinion with you politically.
Please point out where I derided you. Or copy paste a line of the above post that is in error.
Indignation is reserved for the incorrect, which I am demonstrably not. This is not a difference of opinion; you emailed me a patently blatant piece of hate glurge, and you expected me to buy into it, which I won’t do.
If you don’t want to discuss politics, don’t. You came to me with this bullshit as if it were some wonderful new truth you had discovered. Do not do so if you don’t want to be called on it.