. . .ceases to be, as the fuel is essentially removed from their tank. Their stance on almost every issue can be broken down to the idea of having cake and eating it too, with nakedly hypocritical attitudes and stances being the inevitable result. Direct contradictions and logical impossibilities are all they have to offer, but combined with flowery, childish notions of a bastardized brand of Equality, they always sound nicer than anything harsh Reality has to offer.

And, as Jonah G. here makes clear, it is far past time for the Grownups to get very, very angry.

1. Core morality. They can not discern right from wrong. As such, their hypocrisy is inherent.

2. Common sense. Stuff that they do and say that is obviously stupid actually seems like good ideas to them.

3. Economic Reality. Money may grow on trees, after all, it must come from somewhere.

Yes, it ticks me off, but their doing so will only serve to make them look like the temper tantrum throwing children they are. I’m also glad it’s gotten to the point that it’s not just the media heads, but also our elected officials. What better way for them to alienate the better portion of the citizens of this country, I say have at it.

I agree we should call them out on their hypocrisy, and I agree anger is an appropriate response from time to time, but we need to use this to our advantage by keeping our arguments focused on the issues. Turn it back on them. Sigh when they call us names and point out that we’re happy to discuss issues when they are ready to act like adults.

What ever happened to the Unity & Bring us all together? Was it all crap? This of course is their own bile going out of control, But in the media and in Dem circles, my guess is it is also an effort to incite. And a dangerous incitement to the feeble minded, potentially violent in it’s results.
The more they want, the more they hate. But not the real thing, only us.

I read this earlier today in the L.A. Slimes, and along with the bad economy, got me thinking…

Everybody is catching on to the whole sordid mess. And do you know why no one is hiring? I’ll tell you why.

It’s obvious that the business/regulatory climate is such that the uncertainty dashes the best of intentions. But there is something else. It’s not a conspiracy, it is a largely unspoken but HUGE factor. “If I hire, or expand, and it works, I might help reelect this fool. I think I’ll just wait”,

Speaking of the press, it isn’t mentioned often enough that the press and religion are the only non-governmental ‘entities’ specifically protected by the first amendment, and of these two, the press is the one whose ‘freedom’ is protected. That protection has essentially been interpreted to mean ‘the press can say anything it wants to that isn’t slanderous or libelous.’

There is great justification for this protection, because without it countries can easily end up with complete state-controlled media, not just a state-sponsored media outlet in every part of the country like we have. In Britain they’re presently being treated to the spectacle of a major publisher being brought before Parliament, given inadequate personal protection, being grilled about possible criminal activities having been committed by some of his low-level employees, and being threatened with restrictions on his ability to publish (whether those threats are specified or only implied). South American dictatorships are, of course, the prime example of this issue–every time Hugo Chavez is threatened by the truth as reported, he simply shuts down the offending newspaper, and the rest of the media if he feels like it. I won’t go into the many harmful effects such systems have on the well-being of those parts of the population that have inquiring minds.

However, here at home the problem is not of state interference, it is a press filled with publishers and reporters who have willfully taken the same side in matters politic. They’ve allowed their editorial opinions to wash over their reporting responsibilities to the point where they’re submerged in the flood.

Fortunately, there are folks around like Jonah Goldberg and Bernie Goldberg who are willing to call them out on it, others like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity who will invite the Goldbergs and others to speak out on their radio and television shows, and media moguls like Rupert Murdoch who control press outlets like Fox News who will disseminate their counter-comments widely, making them available to more people than saw or heard the offending comments in the first place.

Opinion columnists like Thomas Friedman or politicians like Nancy Pelosi or comedians like Jon Stewart have every right to express their opinions–only the true believers think their words are anything more than that–and to describe their comments as a ‘double standard’ is as irrelevant as it is obvious; but those who claim to be news ‘reporters,’ such as Chris Matthews or Paul Krugman, who blur the line between ‘reporting’ and ‘supporting,’ need to be clearly identified as ‘SPIN, NOT NEWS.’

Or, as Bernie Goldberg said yesterday on The O’Reilly Factor, “These people who are calling the Tea Party ‘terrorists’ are the people who won’t call REAL terrorists ‘terrorists.’”

has been held up to a historic amount of anger and diatribe, thus conveniently forgetting the eight year hate fest against Bush.

Selective memory is their cornerstone, which is one reason that no one watches, or reads the MSM anymore.

social liberal and a fiscal conservative = a Republican.
social conservative and a fiscal conservative = a Conservative.

Moe, that your footnote (particularly your third sentences) the encapsulates the difference between you and an organization like GOProud.

Or for that matter, between you and too many of our so-called conservative leaders and pundits.To wit:

No, there really are. I am a moderate Republican on social issues, after all. I’ve just simply avoided the subtly insidious trap of getting into the unethical habit of sneering at more socially conservative friends in order to try to curry favor with socially moderate enemies. I am not the only squishy Republican in the United States of America who is capable of making that choice.

The point being that your footnote provides a basis for coexistence between social conservatives and social moderates that does not involve a mendacious “truce” or unilateral disarmament.

Which is, in a nutshell, that at the end of the day, both still can sit together at the same bar and have some friendly drinks (alcoholic or not) together and civil conversation.

meme way too much for me, but this piece by Jonah Goldberg is great. He accurately calls out the blatant hypocrisy on the Left and then tells them to go kick rocks.

Awesome.

I am not the only squishy Republican in the United States of America who is capable of making that choice.

For me at least…I don’t put people in the category of Squish or RINO simply because they’re moderate…if I’ve ever given that impression I apologize to you and anyone who has taken offense at my use of those descriptors.

I can respect principled moderates who take a position for one reason or another and who defend their position with principled and well reasoned arguments.

Those I and most of us label “Squish” or “RINO” are the Romney’s, Grahams, McCain’s and Snowes who act conservative in election years and then defecate on all of us after being elected. They are the ones who will slip on a conservative skin when it suits their personal ambitions and uncloak to wreak havoc on conservatives in the middle of combat with the enemy by taking the leftist/statist side.

I’ve always found you to be principled in your moderate positions therefore, I don’t rate you in the squish category….just a little misguided…heh

“Jonah concludes ‘Well, go to Hell. All of you.” To which I append: right on.”

We need an entire party with this tea-party attitude. Nothing get’s turned around until our determination matches that of Satan’s party. The squishy women like Collins, Snowe & Brown [sic] are clueless as to how much trouble we’re in: 16 Trillion in debt by the end of Comrade Obama’s term, led by a marxist ideologue with Islamic sympathies, whose entire regulatory state is hell-bent intent on shutting down our capitalist society. We’ll be lucky if we get through the next year and 1/2 without anarchy & martial law imposed.

I’m old enough to remember when being a journalist meant something in this country. Journalism was, at one time, a very respectable profession. An independent body without political motivation fiercely committed to uncovering the truth and holding our elected representatives, regardless of party affiliation, accountable for the things they said and did. Those days are long gone now and the result is pathetic. We now have a political party whose members can do and say whatever the hell they want without fear of repercussions. If it weren’t for FOX News and Talk Radio God only knows how much worse it would be. MSNBC, CNN and the other liberal ‘news’ outlets’ shows bear an alarming resemblance to the Jerry Springer Show with a political theme. All that’s missing is a screaming studio audience filled with liberal white trash and a bald guy in a black t-shirt. Otherwise, they’re pretty much the same.

The Tea party scares them it would make us fiscally sound, it would stop their uncontrolled spending, all their pork would be cut that scares them. They want to ruin the nation while the Tea Party is trying to save Us. They are not willing to follow the Constitution, while the Tea Party is willing to follow it, that scares them. They want to stay in power and continue their Marxist-Communist agenda and the Tea Party is only trying to reestablish the Republic to it’s once great status and that scares them. They are not able to understand that the Republic is all and the Tea Party sees that and that scares them most because the voters see it as well and they are afraid that their time is short. So like a cornered animal they will strike out in evil ways just like their mind set, and as we can see from the recent events the ones trying to save the Nation are now terrorist while those out to destroy it see nothing wrong with doing so, establish the Marxist-Communist concepts spread the wealth, attack the ones that are making the jobs and have earned their way. And give it to those that are not contributing much to society other than donations to elect them ( it is very hard for the dead to be productive but they seem able to vote often.) It is time to limit the office holder to their terms of office and not allow them to make a life time of it, follow the Constitutional limits as written and not interpreted by them.
“The truth is more important than the facts.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“All is in the hands of Heaven except the fear of Heaven” (Talmud, Berachot 33b).

who never self examine nor self conceptualize their misgivings nor the criticism that comes from the real adults on the left and the right. They are low classed fools ranting in hopes that people will follow them and use the rants so the party can have its way. It works to a small degree producing moronic ranters who fail to learn the true facts while dems plot to hoodwink their followers. Such tactics produce the embarrassments that ABC, CBS NBC, CNN and MSNBC refuse to expose because such protestors are worse than any Tea Party member and they want the country to think they have a clue. Liberal Filth!!!

They lose debates on some bills because they blow all their steam ranting. Being a bully or hatemonger never impresses me, you can’t wear people down with such nonsense. On the other hand they’ve won a few debates and killed important bills with such stupidity like banking reform in 2002 and 2005. Congrats children!

When will the media ask Obama why he obstructed banking reform in 2005 when we still had time to slow the sub prime disaster in the making.? It was easier to rant racism, pretend the GOP hates black people and lie as if banking reform would kill the housing market. The gop can hang this around Obama neck since Mr. Community organizer was part of the problem. Dems killed the housing market with deals for people only to find they couldn’t repay the loans and that corruption in the market was played out till the fat lady sang.

Guilt free godless souls of liberalism. What a joke they’ve become. Let them go the way of the Whigs!.