Thursday, August 03, 2006

THE CLIMATE OF HATRED IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE

Back in the day - when I was growing up - Democrats and Republicans did NOT hate each other. It just wasn’t an issue. And Senators did not march in lockstep with their parties, nor were they expected to.

Senator Frank Lausche of Ohio was a prime example of this (Okay nobody here has heard of him - but I’m OLD and I have!) because he did something that is apparently unheard of by MOST politicians these days - he voted the needs of his constituents (novel concept) and his own conscience! He used to get razzed about this and I remember that the Cleveland newspapers used to publish cartoons about “Frank’s Fence” but it was gentle ribbing, not the character assassination and ugliness being directed at Senator Lieberman.

I swear, if I had the funds, I would take a few months off, go to Connecticut and actively campaign for the Senator Lieberman just out of simple outrage at the treatment he is receiving at the hands of HIS OWN PARTY. It is an absolute disgrace. Does the nutbar left even begin to understand what a heinous thing it is doing? What an un-American behavior they are displaying? The cartoon of a United States Senator, photoshopped to show him in blackface is offensive on so many levels, I cannot even begin to list how many ways in which it is wrong.

So far as I can see, these are the following tenets of the wild-eyed, radical Democratic left:

· Racism is okay if the member of a minority being insulted is a Republican.
· It is okay for Arabs to target and kill innocent women and children.
· It is okay for Arabs to hide behind innocent women and children.
· It is NOT okay for Israel to defend itself when innocent civilians are being killed by Arabs.
· It is perfectly acceptable for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, while sober, to make anti-Semitic remarks to a campaign worker. Or racist remarks at a campaign appearance.
· It is NOT acceptable for actor Mel Gibson, while rip-roaring drunk, to make similar remarks to a California Highway Patrol officer.
· It is perfectly acceptable to denigrate the President of the United State or Republicans by likening them to Adolf Hitler.
· It is not at all acceptable to call John “Francois” Kerry a pathological liar – despite all the proof supporting that contention.
· It is perfectly acceptable and not worthy of criticism for the President of Iran to call for the complete DESTRUCTION of a sovereign state (Israel).

What is consistently amazing to me is that the leftists honestly do not see (or if they do see, they don’t care) how utterly dishonest and contemptible their point of view has become. They do not seem to recognize that offensive behavior has become an almost daily fact of life and that THEY are the primary malefactors, not the Right. They do not recognize the simple truth that were the jihadists to triumph, they would die right alongside the rest of us!

2 comments:

the boodge said...

it's sucks to think that because of the left our great country is going down the shitter! It's the left that spews all the vile in America. They are the ones that limit our abilities in this "War on Terror." They are the ones that allow pedophiles and murderer's to get away with their vicious crimes. They are the ones that will be begging for protection when the time comes and America is under attack (not that we aren't under attack right now: IRAN)!

Gayle Miller said...

All, unfortunately, too true!

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