Just like they did with Bush with the "hanging chads" in 2000...
....and remember this album cover?
It's what they do,it's what they are.
Posted on 06/18/2017 9:07:17 PM PDT by massmike
What's all this caterwauling about "overheated political rhetoric"? Republicans and Democrats are falling all over themselves to blame partisan rhetoric for the shooting of a Republican Congressman yesterday by a deranged Sanders-ista. I know; that's redundant.
But there's nothing wrong with passion. ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," said Barry Goldwater). Without righteous indignation, we would have had no American Revolution, abolitionists or the Civil Rights movement.
If you can't tell the difference between outrage and incitement, you shouldn't be involved in the political process.
If I decry the crime wave caused by illegal immigration, am I responsible for attacks on illegal aliens?
If I observe that there's a connection between Islamic terrorism and Islam, am I helping to create a climate of hatred? The left would say most definitely.
If I said that communism produced the most despotic regimes in the past century, and someone shot up a communist rally, is it my fault?
Still, while Democrats shed crocodile tears, Republicans flagellate themselves over their imagined sins. Rep. Rodney Davis (RINO, Ill.), who was on the playing field when the murderous attack occurred, says we have to "ratchet down the rhetoric on both sides."
Excuse me?
• Conservatives don't shout down or physically assault college speakers. Today, it's almost impossible for a conservative to speak on any save a handful of campuses. I found that out a few years ago, when I tried to speak on hate crimes at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
• We don't wear black ski masks, wield tire irons, throw rocks and bottles, assault cops and innocent bystanders, set cars on fire or engage in any of the other brown-shirt behavior seen at such bastions of scholarship as UC, Berkeley.
• If Charlton Heston was alive when Barack Obama was in office, he would not have told an NRA rally that he "thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House." He also had better personal hygiene than Madonna – even when he was a Roman galley slave in "Ben Hur."
• During the last administration, I don't recall a conservative comic posing with what appeared to be a severed head of Obama.
• Did I miss it or during the last administration did the Chairman of the California GOP lead his party's convention in chants of "Fu—Obama"?
• We don't have assassination fantasies played out in public venues – like the current production of Julius Caesar (Political Correctness in the Park) which shows what looks like Donald Trump being stabbed to death by women and minorities, his supposed victims. Among others, the play is sponsored by The New York Times and CNN, which like to feign objectivity.
I'm not blaming Bernie Sanders for the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, or Hillary Clinton, even though her husband blamed conservative talk radio for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and Sanders blamed "Tea Party rhetoric" for the 2011 shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords.
Sanders is an annoying codger who understands less about economics than my 6-year-old grandson. Hillary Clinton lives in a walled estate while calling those who want a border wall or a limitation on immigration from terror-rich countries, "deplorables."
I don't blame Charles Schumer or Nancy Pelosi, who ritualistically denounced this act of barbarism. On the other hand, have you ever heard them condemn Christian persecution in the Muslim world or the anti-cop ravings of Black Lives Matter?
Leftist rhetoric that labels the president a fascist, a racist, a would-be dictator, calls for his overthrow or accuses him of treason (colluding with the Russians to fix the last election), approaches incitement. But don't expect Democratic leaders to denounce any of this. They save their moral indignation for the right.
The left has always been violence-prone, from the French Revolution to the present. Think of the Reign of Terror, the Russian Revolution (and those that followed it), the crimes of the National Socialists, the Weather Underground, the Khmer Rouge killing fields (in an era when Jane Fonda fantasized about shooting down American planes), and other acts of progressive slaughter.
The left's fatal attraction to violence betrays its intellectual impotence.
That impotence is also seen in their mania for limiting free speech and compelling others to violate their conscience. Whether it's about abortion, same-sex marriage or "transgender" rights, they avoid a debate by calling it hate speech. Worse, they would force doctors to perform abortions and town clerks to participate in the travesty called gay marriage, even when they object on the conscience grounds.
With all due respect for Rep. Rodney Davis and other masochistic Republicans, we aren't all to blame for the climate in which a bloodthirsty Bernie supporter (who had a crush on Rachel Maddow) decided to use Republican Congressmen for target practice.
The left has turned viciousness into an art form. Leftists substitute suppression for speech, have infantile temper tantrums when they lose, and rationalize violence when they don't condone it outright.
Or am I guilty of indulging in overheated rhetoric?
It’s the Lying Left.
If you’re a lying Leftist, you lie, you are vicious, and you are violent.
It’s what you do.
They don’t realize that part of their sub-set is really criminal and destructive.
Exactly.
This shooting is a product of the climate of hate created by the progressive left and the Democrats.
They have questioned the legitimacy of President Trump’s election from the moment it happened, plotting action against him (including but not limited to impeachment) from about 10 PM Eastern on November 8.
Left-wing educators have called for Trump’s assassination, and it is only after this shooting that the hypocrites at the Huffington Post pulled an article urging the same.
They have promoted and defended Kathy Griffin and the severed Trump head. they have supported and defended the “assassination” of Trump at Shakespeare in the Park. Madonna said she had given serious thought to blowing up the White House. Snoop dogg pointed a gun at a Trump head, done up like a clown. You have Joy Reid saying Scalise deserved to be shot.
Is it any wonder one of their little mind-numbed robots decided that the Republicans needed killing?
“If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself as a class; if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class and as such sweeps away by force the old conditions of production; then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.” …Violence is not a mere “penchant” among the left. It is a dogma.
“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.” …
Just like they did with Bush with the "hanging chads" in 2000...
....and remember this album cover?
It's what they do,it's what they are.
The Democrat Thug Party.
Not guilty.
A rodeo clown lost his career for doing what he had always done: poke harmless fun at a sitting president, in this case, Barack Obama.
That was not even a scintilla of the kind and degree of the hateful, violent activism the communists are doing to Donald Trump - with impunity.
At least a rodeo clown didn’t wear a Trump mask...
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