[MD] political harmony

[Platt Holden]

>dmb says:I
> appreciate your generosity to some extent but it's wrong to assign equal
> blame to "both sides". To do so would be a case of "grotesque
> even-handedness". Nobody said McCain was an unreal American,
>  a Marxist, a Socialist, a terrorist, a pal to terrorists, a secret
> Islamist, an Arab or any such thing. Nobody screamed for McCain's death.

Because leftists rightly considered McCain one of them. Palin, however, was 
hung in effigy. 

> There is nobody on the left who can be compared to Hannity, Limbaugh or
> the dozens of other such hateful radio talkers.

They tried but nobody listened to them. Is Air America still broadcasting? 

> There was no internet
> whispering campaign that accused McCain of being the anti-Christ and
> nobody said he wanted to sexualize kindergarteners.

Right. The left liked McCain. But their attacks on Palin reached a new low. 


> It is simply a fact
> that the Republican Party's "southern strategy", which they've been using
> for at least 40 years, is a divide and conquer tactic. That's what's so
> disturbing about Palin's "real America" comments. That is code for "white
> America". It is covert racism.

"Real America" is racist only to leftists who hurl that invective at anyone 
who disagrees with their socialist agenda. 

> And so Murtha's "redneck" comment at least
> has the virtue of being accurate, if not polite. If you look at the
> percentage of uneducated whites who voted for McCain and at the states
> (Nearly all of them were southern and/or rural), Murtha was only being
> rude about an obvious demographic fact.

A perfect example of leftist bigotry.

> And wouldn't you say 
>  that it's entirely appropriate to be angry about such a divisive tactic?
> Does it divide us to complain about division? No, they can't reasonably be
> compared, much less equated. And I'd add that we live in a social world
> that centers around competition and we go to war at the drop of a hat. We
> spent countless hours entertaining ourselves with football, big time
> wrestling and movies about tough-guy vigilantes. We're surrounded by all
> kinds of of aggression and yet we're supposed to be "civil" in our
> political discourse? That's crazy. That is some kind of Stockholm syndrome
> or battered spouse syndrome. Isn't more reasonable to fight back against
> this kind of abuse, this kind of culture, with something like a mature and
> well-reasoned argument? We don't want to get down in the gutter with them
> or simply throw back a bunch of equally outrageous insults, but I think
> it's high time liberals grow a pair and stand up to these bullies.Just
> like Obama did.It works. 

Right. It's high time to stand up to bullies like Jeremiah Wright and 
terrorists like William Ayers, those two sterling role models for Obama.