[SoConPubbie]

“Fighting fire with fire” requires that we buy into the liberal premise that people deserve to lose their livelihood for expressing disagreement with the conventional wisdom of the crybaby asking for the firing (whether that “wisdom” be liberal or conservative).

There were several on this board suggesting we make an attempt to get Garofalo fired from 24 for the crime of being liberal. That’s no less ridiculous than trying to get a conservative fired for being conservative.

This is a surrender of our principles. Free speech is worthwhile.

SnakeDoc

Your position requires a belief that all ideas or positions on issues or actions are in and of themselves equal in terms of right and wrong.

This is what the Left wants us to buy into and believe.

This is not the case, however. The right, generally speaking, bases their positions on the issues on ethics and even morality. The left does not. The left is all about selfishness.

Viewed without the prism of relevancy that the Left would like to get the Right to agree to, it is immediately apparent that getting Garofalo or Letterman fired for doing things that lack ethics and morality is the most appropriate course of action.

[SnakeDoctor]

>> Your position requires a belief that all ideas or positions on issues or actions are in and of themselves equal in terms of right and wrong.

Absolute nonsense. My position is that all speakers are equal in their right to espouse their ideas. That our position is true and correct does not give us the right to bludgeon those who are not.

The left thinks they are just as right as you and I know we are. They are wrong. But, under your theory, they can use the opinion that they hold ultimate “truth” as a justification for silencing you, harassing you, or getting you fired because you are “wrong”.

Conservatism is fundamentally about individual liberty. If we use our status as right to silence those who are wrong, we have fallen prey to a fundamentally liberal premise — that the wrong have no right to express their ideas. That position is anti-liberty and anti-conservative.

SnakeDoc