Posted on 08/27/2010 5:00:25 PM PDT by HonestConservative
The Last Refuge of the Liberal
Labeling all opponents “bigots” allows the Left to forgo real debates.
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the “bitter” people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging “to guns or religion or” — this part is less remembered — “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.”
That’s a polite way of saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.
● Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness, and debt, as represented by the tea-party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.
● Disgust and alarm with the federal government’s unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.
● Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia.
● Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Krauthammer says it all, and says it right, AGAIN!
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I’m getting tired of liberals attempting to read my mind. If you disagree with ANYTHING the President does, you are a racist bigot . This confirms that since liberals disagree with Charles Krauthammer, they obviously hate quadriplegics.
Sums it up nicely.
Never knew that. Thanks.
Oh man. The Krauthammer goes postally psychiatric on 0bama & co. Wish he’d done it earlier, but it is still a joy to behold.
“Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes? “
‘Sounds like a case for martial law and election suspensions?
Let ‘em try.
Lets face it Democrats hate all normal people.
“...a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to those who dare oppose them.”
Sounds like something Adams or Jefferson would have said, eh?
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The bigot line is one that can just as easily be used against liberals. You just need to be observant. When the NYT for example directs abuse at Texans, the first thing out of my mouth is “The NYT is a bunch of bigots.”
Got it.
Thank you for posting this excellent article. The good Dr. carves the opposition up nicely.
Thank you, Mr Krauthamer, for another excellent article and for my new tag line.
“a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites”
It dovetails nicely with my previous tagline, “There are consequences for being wrong” - Burt Rutan
“I’m getting tired of liberals attempting to read my mind. If you disagree with ANYTHING the President does, you are a racist bigot . This confirms that since liberals disagree with Charles Krauthammer, they obviously hate quadriplegics”
He’s a paraplegic. But if they hate para’s, they probably hate quads twice as much
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