"WHY ARE CONSERVATIVES SO AFRAID?"

The Corner ^ | 1/3/06 | Byron York

[Diamond]

Ooooo, SCARY! Poor little Americans, pissing themselves because some guys took out a couple of buildings.

The unmasked liberal view of human life and liberty

Cordially,

[BamaAndy]

The idiocy from the left never stops--we're not afraid, we're simply doing something about it. The left would not.

[roses of sharon]

More evidence that liberals love death, victimhood, and vulnerability.

Since respecting life, and preventing the deaths of Americans, is now somehow called cowardly.

[soloNYer]

While at a deer camp, I got into a heated argument with a vocal liberal, who had been drinking heavily. When discussing national security, his point was that a terrorists attack would never defeat the US. He believed that even a nuclear attack on a large US city would just be a blip.

I'm not sure about that. Really imagine a nuclear attack to NYC. 7 million people dead or dying. Mass panic, finance shut down, millions more families without one or more parents, cries for restitution. Every large city has its own panic, people leave in droves. Next, terrorists have more attention with proof they have weapons, hold cities for ransom, more panic.

To me, 9/11 was surmountable for the US since it really was "isolated." Luck of the draw to be in the buildings hit...whereas a nuclear explosion is not isolated. That would draw true panic countrywide (especially libs who don't believe there's any danger). To me, stopping a nuke scenario is paramount.

[xmission]

Amazing that now they attempt to turn "doing something about it" into cowardice, and "turning a blind eye" into heroic action. Bad=good, wrong=right,

[CyberAnt]

The liberals aren't "on" to anything - that's their problem.

The leadership of the dem party is following the Daily Kos.com to get their talking points. I hope they keep it up - America is already fed up with it .. and this latest will not sit well at all.

[6SJ7]

Interesting point. According to Libs, we should be afraid of Global Warming, but accepting of being slaughtered, in the thousands, by terrorists.

[Monti Cello]

These stupid libs see 9/11 for nothing more than real big molotov cocktail - just a prank with larger than average consequences.

They carp over connecting the dots in criminal sense. They have no appreciation for connecting the dots in the larger sense.

9/11's impact was not in its direct danger to individual safety, but for its indication of larger trends:

The historical intersection of major weapons with crazy tyrants, the ineffectiveness of US intelligence here and abroad, blind faith in impotent diplomacy, the moral weakness of former US allies and mulitculturalists at home which hamstring an organized defense.

That these candy-ass libs think this is all about machismo means they are even less serious than I thought.

[dangerdoc]

Drivers are cowards, bumpers, airbags, seat belts, what are you afraid of.

People are cowards when they eat. Washing your food, refrigerators, cooking, what kind of fear soaked mongrels are you.

Heterosexuals are cowards. If a gay wants relations with you, you are afraid to just bend over and take it. Ha ha fraidy cats.

Do you look both ways before you cross the street, I pity you in your daily pointless fear.

Do you have a bank account, mail order with credit cards, brush your teeth, watch you blood pressure, wash your hands after going to the bathroom??? You are too cowardly to be a real American and certainly too cowardly to be a good Democrat.

[Mike Darancette]

Moulitsas writes, "even as they piddle on themselves in abject terror from every 'boo' that comes out of Osama bin Laden's mouth."

The RATS and Muslims better be very afraid, another attack on the scale of 9/11 and Muslim neighborhoods will look like Bondai Beach. And US citizens are way better armed than Australians.

[F16Fighter]

"WHY ARE CONSERVATIVES SO AFRAID?"

Once we differentiate between "Conservatives" as compared to "Republicans," an altogether different equation emerges.

Simply put, ever since the GOP "leadership" has been hijacked by the RINOs "pinkies-out" motto of "Compassionate Conservatism" (GH Bush-Days), it has led to the surrender of principle, appeasement when challenged by outright slander and lies, and a lack of conviction and courage to stand up for the truth.

[SQUID]

Markos wouldn't have become a commie if he didn't spend so much time in Germany. Don't look now Markos, but you are supporting the enemy of the United States as well as your ancestry.

Also, this coming from a party that has intruded in peoples lives a thousand times deeper than anyone on the right. A party who believes that government is the sources for resolving family issues, sexual issues, personal issues, spiritual issues and the like. A party that is intolerant of anyone who doesn't share their view of the world. This is Markos a couple years ago responding to the murders of four Americans in Fallujah: “I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.” The men were guarding convoys delivering food to the city. As most Americans will remember, they were brutally hacked to death by pro-Saddam thugs. At that time the Kerry campaign called Kos’ words “an unacceptable statement about the death of Americans”. Kos has never retracted the statement or apologized. By the way, please, don't call yourself Greek, it's insulting.

[cvq3842]

This man is seriously mentally ill.

Do these people have lievs? Or do they just spend all their time resenting the fact that they lost the election?

Let them keep it up. They just keep sounding more and more insane, trying to fill some psycholoogical need they have, and turning off larger and larger segments of the electorate. Then they get even more mad.

[finnman69]

Kos is such an out of touch Bezerkeley moonbat you can almost pooh pooh him.

The good news is he is a defacto King of the Cyber Idiots meaning he directs tons of potential energy and money in a manner beneficial to the right. Just ask him how he did in 2004 with his losing candidates. He also advised the Dean campaign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Kos#Campaign_fundraising
During the 2004 U.S. Election, Daily Kos readers gave approximately $500,000 in user donations to fifteen Democratic candidates denoted as most needing of funds. The candidates were Tony Miller, Ben Konop, Dan Mongiardo, Richard Romero, Samara Barend, Jeff Seemann, Nancy Farmer, Ginny Schrader, Jan Schneider, Lois Murphy, Jim Newberry, Brad Carson, Tony Knowles, Stan Matsunaka and Richard Morrison. All of these candidates lost.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

A macho Democrat is like a "jumbo shrimp."

No one who voted for John (the Dilletante) Friggin' Kerry can ever assert the slightest hint of manhood in any way, shape or form ever again - ever. Period.

So mince off back into oblivion, Markos, you simpering catamite, you cowardly custard, you slack witted girly man. Go write your next blog in French.

[wayoverontheright]

Typical leftist convoluted logic.

Here we have those who are attempting to defend our country being called cowards, and those who wish to withdraw from war, possessed of courage.

[Gritty]

He believed that even a nuclear attack on a large US city would just be a blip. The US would keep rolling on.

I suppose it depends to some extent on which city and where/how the attack is directed? But you can trust Al Qaeda to pick where it will do the most damage. They are good at planning that sort of thing.

When the WTC came down, it cost us 10s of billions of dollars in direct physical damage, medical care and emergency services. There is still a big hole there, and it required a gargantuan effort just to clean up the mess - much less replace it. And this was only a small part of a city with no nasty radiation involved. We barely dodged a financial meltdown in the Markets.

Another example,... how many billions of taxpayer dollars is it going to take to rebuild New Orleans (not that we really should, for the most part)? How many more financially disruptive blows can this country absorb? We are already spending into endless deficits with no end in sight.

... then, there is the possibility of an EMP device which could shut down large section of the country for months...

Our economy and infrastructure can't take too many more mega-billion dollar hits and survive. We do not have limitless resources and we are dependent on infrastructure and commerce running smoothly to prevent ongoing disaster. Then, there is the possibility of oil going over $100/bbl...

Frankly, I disagree with your Liberal friend. He probably is of the opinion all we need do is print more money and have the government rebuild everything anew. to Liberals, there is no end to resources and money as long as the government is around to do the job. He lives in a dream world.

[finnman69]

A macho Democrat is like a "jumbo shrimp."

Awesome tagline potential.

[finnman69]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1546259/posts


There was another reason, though, why hundreds of thousands of liberals around the country found themselves addictively checking and rechecking Daily Kos as the 2004 election approached. It made them think Democrats were going to win. Moulitsas wasn't just posting any polls, he was selecting those that suggested Democrats—from John Kerry to congressional candidates—were heading for victory, while downplaying less encouraging signs. It left liberals trapped in a bubble of reassurance. Heading into the election, it would have been reasonable to assume from the evidence presented on Daily Kos that Kerry was the clear favorite to beat Bush, and that Democrats were likely to pick up seats in both houses of Congress. When none of these things happened, there was a sense of incomprehension. All of Kos's confident predictions had been wrong. “It's a valid criticism. Looking back, I was too optimistic,” Moulitsas told me. “[At] the beginning, I didn't even know what a margin of error was.”

Worse, Kos hadn't just fared poorly as an armchair quarterback—he'd been beaten on the field, too. In the Democratic primaries, he first backed Dean, then Wesley Clark. Both sparked grassroots excitement, but ultimately, of course, flamed out. Then, of the 13 Democratic candidates for Congress that Moulitsas handpicked for his readers to support—and for whom he raised over $500,000– not a single one prevailed.

[The Electrician]

You may be confusing Byron York, who is merely reporting this information, with Markos Moulitsas, who is the actual source of the bilge...