I’ve Completely Had It
Pardon me if I seem a bit confused here; I’m hoping it will pass, though that would require a bit of introspection and thought on the part of a great many conservatives, and perhaps that is too much to ask for. Or so it seems, given the reason for my confusion.
In a year and two weeks, we have an election — an election we should easily be able to sweep, except that some of us seem so busy tearing down other conservatives, such as the President, that unless they get a serious clue, on election day they’ll be sitting on their lazy butts slinging mud at other conservatives instead of voting.
Sorry if I seem a bit irate, but I am. More than a bit, actually. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such stupid, self-destructive, mindless behavior, and worse, in the name of ideological purity.
On one mailing list, supposedly for conservatives, there are several people who do nothing but slam Bush and the party, because they’re just not conservative enough, socially speaking. Because Bush isn’t crying out for domestic terrorists to bomb abortion clinics, he has betrayed these poor dolts, I suppose. Meanwhile, they have nothing at all to say about spending, most likely because like most extreme social conservatives, they’re nanny staters — they just want a nanny state that enforces their little nanny state ideals.
Pardon me while I puke. I just can’t get excited about an American Taliban, be it left or right wing. And now, for some spriritual health and to purge your whiny crap from my brain, I’ll think for a moment of the father of modern conservatism, Barry Goldwater.
Now, I have no problem with social conservatives at all. I do have a problem with social conservatives who are the right wing counterparts of the Barbara Boxer club. But I have a serious problem when they’re doing everything they can to ensure a liberal victory in 2006.
Bush betrayed us! Bush betrayed us! Bush betrayed us!
Shut up, already. Or better yet, join that irrelevant Constitution Party so we don’t have to put up with your whiny nanny state crap. I’m not interested in your purity tests or your complaints; I’m just interested in keeping the liberals from killing us in 2006. And if you aren’t pragmatic enough to understand that, you’re a moron.
Daniel Levesque:
There are loons on both ends. I personally try to ignore them and move forward wit a realistic conservative agenda.
www.ravingconservative.com
October 30, 2005, 2:43 pmrightwingprof:
I would, if they weren’t doing so much damage.
October 30, 2005, 3:52 pmPatC:
I don’t believe in Reagan’s 11th commandment but there is a certain tone of voice in these conservative cannibals that pisses me off too. The theocrats are one thing and I think of them as a bit mentally disabled by not dangerous because most people don’t take them seriously. It’s the socalled intellectual critics I can’t stand like George Will and Kristol. They do have an effect on people. Too many Americans (both left and right) are utopianists who expect perfection. Give me pragmatists over idealists anyday. But you’re right - the Republicans could blow it in 2006 not only with their cannibalism but with their hubris.
October 30, 2005, 5:13 pmKurt Johnson:
While it’s true that the KKK, abortion clinic bombers, and Neo Nazis and such are whackos in thier own right, liberals have this deluded perception that ANYONE who is a consertative,(meaning-those who believe in hard work,responsibility for one’s own actions, believes in a Creator, private gun ownership, or has served in the military,etc.,etc.) is an extremist and that is insulting.
November 13, 2005, 4:36 am