This is it in a NUTSHELL.
I used to be what I thought was a liberal. If, at the time,
anyone had asked
me to explain myself, I would have said that I opposed Jim
Crow laws, that I
believed workers were entitled to make a decent wage and
work in a safe
environment, and that American citizens shouldn't be
discriminated against
because of their race, religion, or national origin.
I quit being a liberal, because I didn't believe that
members of particular
minority groups deserved advantages denied to others, that
illegal aliens
weren't entitled to anything but a swift kick to the
backside, that being a
devout Christian didn't make you a bad person, and that
capitalism was a
system that worked, while socialism not only didn't work
but most often
turned into tyranny.
I honestly don't know why there are so many liberals
today, and I certainly
can't imagine why they have such a lousy agenda. I have
come up with a
theory. Here in California, roughly thirty years ago, because
of budget cuts, a
great many people were released from insane asylums. They
wound up living in
the streets, which explains the large number of homeless
people, even though
Democrats would have you believe that those are normal
people who simply
lost their jobs along the way.
Even after the state became more solvent, it became almost
impossible to get
these poor souls back into institutions where they could be
fed, clothed and
given their meds, because the ACLU lawyers fought for their
inalienable
right to starve, freeze, and use the sidewalks of your city
as their
combination bedroom, living room, and bathroom.
Inevitably, they also got to vote. As a result, the likes
of Barbara Boxer,
Dianne Feinstein, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Antonio Villaraigosa,
Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown, wound up winning all the
major elections. I
mean, the truth is, you'd have to be crazy to vote for
those people.
I have to suspect that a similar scenario took place all
over the country.
How else to explain that two-thirds of Americans actually
believe that
Barack Obama's policies will save our economy? I'm not
even a Christian, but
I find it bizarre that people who pooh-pooh the idea that
Christ raised the
dead or walked on water are totally convinced that a guy
who's tossing
trillions of dollars into the air is a financial miracle
worker. Talk about
blind faith!
It makes me wonder if these same people, were they facing
personal
bankruptcy, would think that the answer to their own
financial difficulties
would be to give their wife an American Express card and
drop her off at
Tiffany's.
If liberals aren't simply insane, they surely must be
hypocrites. Why else
would they insist that spending eight years bashing
President Bush and
comparing him, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, to the Nazi
High Command was
patriotic, but merely questioning President Obama's
qualifications, judgment,
and policies makes one a racist?
How is it that, between 2000 and 2006, when the GOP
had control of the
Oval Office, the House, and the Senate, on those rare
occasions they didn't
do the bidding of Ted Kennedy, John Murtha, or Charles
Schumer, they were
condemned as divisive? However, when Obama and his
left-wing cronies rushed
through a trillion dollar stimulus package and a
pork-filled budget over
Republican objections, nobody in their crowd cried
"Foul!" or insisted on
reaching across the aisle for a group hug and a few
choruses of "Kumbaya"!
Before anyone bothers sending an e-mail reminding me that
three Republican
senators voted with the Democrats on the stimulus bill, I
haven't forgotten.
But, let's face it—the two ladies from Maine are
merely the east coast
version of Boxer and Feinstein. As for Arlen Specter, I
suspect that along
the way, he'll switch to the Extraterrestial Party if, as
he inches closer
to being a hundred years old, he decides that's his best
chance of winning
an election.
I know that people such as Sen. Specter and Sen. Jeffords
would have us
believe that they switched parties because of their
principles, but I would
prefer it if they only said such silly things in the hope
of making me
laugh. That's because I love to laugh, but I hate being
taken for a fool. I
mean, really, Jim Jeffords wakes up one day when he's 67
years old and
Specter opens his eyes at the age of 79 and suddenly decide
that the GOP
isn't as conservative as they'd like, so the solution
is to link left arms
with the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, and
Barney Frank?
Something else that makes me wonder if, in a nicer, kinder
world, liberals
wouldn't be housed in a warm place where they'd be kept
safely away from
sharp objects and voting booths, is their notion of what
constitutes
torture. In my world, cutting off Daniel Pearl's head,
throwing Anne Frank
in an oven, or having to listen to Chris Matthews, is
torture. But by no
means is it playing loud music, keeping people awake,
making them share
space with a caterpillar, or even dousing them with water,
in order to get
them to cough up information that might prevent another
9/11 or keep
American soldiers from being ambushed.
Only a liberal could confuse actual torture with college
hazing. I suspect
there are members of fraternities who could share more
harrowing tales than
the Islamics with their Korans, their three squares, and
their personal
prayer mats at Gitmo.
Another difference that seems to escape liberals is that
it's torture when
the only purpose is to cause pain, not when it's done in
order to pry
important information from terrorists.
And, finally, when did liberals decide that homosexuals get
the final word
when it comes to matters of morals, values, or anything
else, for that
matter?
It's bad enough that any number of self-righteous
academics kept military
recruiters off college campuses, pretending that their
objection stemmed
from the army's don't ask/don't tell policy, and not
simply because
left-wingers hate anything and everything that smacks of
patriotism.
In much the same way, those on the Left have led a crusade
against the Boy Scouts of America because, so they say, they oppose the policy of not allowing homosexuals to be scout leaders and take young boys into the woods
on camping trips. Sensible people regard that as a sensible
policy. It's not
to suggest that every gay man is a pedophile, but simply
recognizing that
most pedophiles are gay men. Just as every Muslim is not a
terrorist, just
about every terrorist these days is a Muslim. So, why
should parents take
any unnecessary chances with their most precious
possessions just so
homosexuals won't have their feelings hurt?
Liberals don't really care about homosexuals, by the way,
unless they themselves happen to be gay. The truth is liberals rarely serve in the military, now that service is voluntary, and they don't
usually let their kids
join the Boy Scouts, not because they're offended by the
aforementioned
policy, but because the group fosters faith-based and
patriotic ideals.
If you want a perfect example of liberal hypocrisy,
consider the recent
beauty pageant when a repulsive little freak who calls
himself Perez Hilton
(born Mario Lavenderia), who had no business even being on
stage at a
competition involving beautiful women, got to ask Miss
California, Carrie
Prejean, how she felt about same-sex marriages. Her honest
answer probably
cost her the victory, while earning her the respect of most
fair and decent
Americans.
What I find so telling about the incident was that in
California, the reason
that the same-sex marriage measure was defeated on the
November ballot was
because 70% of blacks voted that way. But the gays only
demonstrated outside
Catholic and Mormon churches and businesses. Furthermore, I
guarantee that
if Miss Prejean had been black, instead of a blue-eyed
blonde, Mr. Hilton
wouldn't have dared open his ugly little yap.
It's also worth noting that President Obama gave the
exact same answer to
the exact same question during the campaign, and yet the
gays voted
overwhelmingly for him. Which certainly suggests that,
thanks to the insane
asylums being relatively empty these days, honesty can cost
you a tiara, but
not the presidency.
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