Parallel lives of the Democrats and Republicans

The Virginian ^ | 12/7/2008 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

Scott Johnson at Powerline refers to an article by Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson adapts Plutarch to a review of notable stories of the past year in his column on the parallel lives of Democrats and Republicans. After his comparisons of Richard Fuld with Robert Rubin, Ted Stevens with Charles Rangel, Alberto Gonzales with Eric Holder, and Christopher Dodd with Trent Lott, Hanson concludes:

I could go on and on with these Plutarachean examples of Parallel Lives but you get the picture. Here, the contrast is not the respective virtues of Greece and Rome. Nor is there any regret whatsoever that liberals of good faith thankfully scrutinize the bad judgment and even criminal activity of wayward conservatives. The problem instead is why we continuously consider liberal transgressions as misdemeanors and their conservative counterparts as felonies.

I was reminded of this when I contrast the manner in which Sarah Palin was covered versus Joe Biden. Biden is a gaff machine, one who has all the traits of a poser but none of the saving graces. Even his hair is fake.

During the campaign Biden told us that FDR got on TV after the stock market crashed in 1929, apparently not aware that FDR was not president and that TV had not been invented. (read the rest - it's rather long)

[boxer21]

And all the while, the lefties are smirking.

[Steely Tom]

As I've said before, liberalism has evolved into an entirely parallel system of logic, with it's own catechism of cause and effect, it's own cosmology, as it were, it's own morality, and it's own economic theory.

That their world view is totally incompatible with objective reality is of no relevence because the objective world is willing to coddle them rather than put down what it's doing and give them a good solid kick in the shorts.

Eventually, the caterwauling and sobbing from those who are riding in the wagon will reach such a level of annoyance that those pulling the wagon will have to react.

Ayn Rand covered this situation pretty thoroughly in Atlas Shrugged.

[SeaWolf]

In other words, liberalism is a mental disorder...

[Amos the Prophet]

Liberalism has always been affiliated with a culture of death. It speaks from the arrogance of power. As this current presidency will make clear to the most mind numbed, liberalism is the greatest enemy of freedom.