“They are no longer the opposition - they are the enemy and should be treated as such.”
I guess my attitude is a little out of step with a lot of other Freepers here. Politically, I am vehemently opposed to Obama/Pelosi/Reid, but I don’t see them as the enemy, at least not in the same sense that Al Qaeda and Kim Jong-Il are our enemies. I think the kind of anger I’m seeing now is not disimilar to the level of anger that preceded the Civil War, and I hope to God we don’t go down that path again.
Yes, I am very angry. Obama will destroy America as we know it if he is allowed to continue. He has more of an opportunity to destroy us than Al Qaeda, the Taliban and Kim Jong-Il combined.
“I guess my attitude is a little out of step with a lot of other Freepers here. Politically, I am vehemently opposed to Obama/Pelosi/Reid, but I don’t see them as the enemy, at least not in the same sense that Al Qaeda and Kim Jong-Il are our enemies. I think the kind of anger I’m seeing now is not disimilar to the level of anger that preceded the Civil War, and I hope to God we don’t go down that path again.”
You are making a straw man. The choice is not: column a) throw your friends under the bus, and give your political enemy much needed aid; or b) all out, let’s-get-it-on, civil war. There is a broad middle ground here, that Washington Republican insiders conveniently ignore (I’m not saying you are at all, just that this mentality is prevalent in Washington).
That middle ground is to be honest about who these people are, and what they are trying to do. The middle ground is to express that sometimes, anger is not only acceptable, but necessary. The middle ground is to let everyone know that we are not going to simply acquiesce our way into becoming a poor man’s Europe. The middle ground is to say “over half of this country is angry, feels betrayed, and is scared over what these people are doing, and I don’t blame them one bit.”
Everyone hopes we don’t go down that road again. But I guarantee you one thing: if we do, it is not going to be because conservatives get violent. It is because we stand steadfastly in the path of people like Pelosi, and because they see their dreams coming apart. In other words, if it gets nasty, it will be because Pelosi, and millions like her, are very nasty, selfish, and power hungry people, who don’t care one bit who they hurt.
>>Politically, I am vehemently opposed to Obama/Pelosi/Reid, but I don’t see them as the enemy...<<
Not only are you out of step, you are out of your mind.
>>Politically, I am vehemently opposed to Obama/Pelosi/Reid, but I don’t see them as the enemy...<<<
So you don’t think a woman who tries to incite hatred between American citizens exercising their right to peaceful assembly (calling tea partiers Nazis), lying by suggesting we are violent extremists, and otherwise attempting to turn Americans against one another in potentially violent fashion (trying to cause a “racial incident” on the way to sign the bill)...
You don’t see this woman as an enemy to America?
You can’t be serious.