Typical leftist techniques

I was reading Curt at Flopping Aces early this morning – after my first morning cup – and saw his piece on “Celebrity Idiots Attack Karl Rove” and it sounded so familiar. Well, it’s familiar because it’s the same way I’ve been attacked by supposed friends and new acquaintances who’ve decided to wade into a political discussion with me. When they discover my political views, they feel it’s their appointed duty to convert me into “one of them”.

When I try to avoid the conversation (usually when my wife is around because she hates it when my face gets red and I turn into “that guy”), they continue on with their blathering and grab me by the arm to keep me rooted in my spot while their spittle runs down their chin and the volume increases. I’ll make a one line reply  – a statement of indisputable fact – and the saliva count increases along with the decibles. As if volume and spittle production increases will convince me to be an intellectually-vacant moron. 

The fewer facts presented only increases the volume – and the namecalling. At first, they avoid calling me names and the start with the President, then work through his staff, then Haliburton, and somehow Ken Lay always gets thrown in.

When I don’t react to all of those vacuous debating techniques, the gun gets turned on me. First, by making sideways, glancing blows like “…well, anyone who thinks otherwise must be a moron…”, or “aren’t you ashamed of what those cretins have done to your party?”

Then suddenly, I’m a jackbooted thug who eats puppies alive, kicks old people and murders unsuspecting teenagers.

The more I appear like I won’t be convinced to surrender my soul to the gods of their weird religion, the angrier, louder, and more irrational they become. You can see examples of this behavior across the internet – especially in the comments section of HuffPo. And in my email.

When I read about Al Sharpton getting death threats, I know it’s BS. The Left are the side that make death threats, hell, I’ve gotten them here. They like to say they get death threats – who would waste the time to make a death threat to those three pinhead Dixie Chicks? Who has time for that?

I’ve never seen a Conservative on television get fist-pounding mad on any of the talk shows, but you see the Left doing it all the time. The closest I’ve seen from the Right is Bob Novak walking out of a CNN broadcast during a commercial break. The biggest emotional outburst from a conservative was Dick Cheney calmly telling Pat Leahy to attempt asexual reproduction. That’s it. That’s all they have.

But almost nightly you can see the Left in hystrionics over something or other – especially when they have no real facts. I’ve never seen a Conservative crying in the Congressional hallways because no one is listening to them, but we were treated to that just a few weeks from Code Pink – grown men in pink sweatshirts with tears streaming down their faces because Nancy Pelosi won’t end the war in Iraq yesterday. I guess they’re comfortable with their masculinity – but the rest of us aren’t. Comfortable with their masculinity, I mean.

You read about John “Christmas in Cambodia” Kerry storming into a confirmation hearing in a committee in which he’s not even a member, and grilling a political foe, then storming out again – the Left takes great glee in emotional, pointless gestures like denying an ambassadorship to Belgium. Then the feigned outrage at the recess appointment to Belgium (it’s fricken Belgium for pete’s sake).

Despite the fact that there’s no real evidence that Alberto Gonsalez ordered the firings of several federal prosecutors for political reasons, the Left is jumping up and down screaming for his head. But, I guess they don’t see that keeping Sam Fox from being ambassador to Belgium as the same thing, huh?

The left has nothing. No science, no morals, no sense of history – just emotional outbursts.  That’s why I don’t go out much anymore. And that’s why Leftists live in an echo chamber – no rational person wants to talk to them.

Category: Politics, Society