Conservatives aren't the extremists: It's today's liberals who are on the edge of political reality

Mainstream conservatives are routinely mischaracterized as extreme by liberals and squishy Republicans, when it is America's liberals who are, by any fair measure, more extreme.

Conservatives are not the ones who sermonize about tolerance yet demonstrate intolerance toward conservative and Christian thought; support exterminating babies in the womb; apologize the world over for America; or gut the military and missile defense because of some dangerously egotistical notion that they have the magic to turn evil into goodness with their charisma and eloquence or, even worse, because they refuse to recognize evil in the world, except as emanating from the United States.

Conservatives aren't the ones who have so little faith in their fellow human beings that they diminish their dignity by expanding the welfare state and increasing man's learned dependency on government; judge people by the color of their skin instead of the content of their character; pit economic groups against one another, stoking the flames of envy and greed; punish success, reward failure and promote mediocrity; side with the world's tyrants and dictators; slavishly attach themselves to leftist propaganda about impending environmental catastrophes; promote a secular humanist worldview that considers government a quasi-deity that can perfect the human condition; or morally equate the practice of enhanced interrogation techniques to save innocent lives with that of beheading innocent people.

True though this all may be, Conservatives are the ones who allow the Dim Dems to set the agenda. “We cannot do anything about the media because it's run by the Dim Dems.” “We cannot do anything in Congress because the Dim Dems run it in both houses.” “We cannot...” “We cannot...” “We cannot...”

When I see support for people like Palin - we don't have to elevate her to the status of Goddess, but she sure motivates people on the Right - and more people like her who are willing to state their beliefs without fear, then I will believe that the Right has a chance.

I believe that Obozo is an arrogant narcissistic socialist bullying would-be-dictator who is a fraud from back to front top to bottom. I believe he will ruin this country if given the chance.

We need more people on the Right who will call it like it is rather like that British MEP who has featured on TV railing against George Brown. The Right has been cowed by ‘Political Correctness’ into abandoning direct speech in case it might offend. Let's get some edge back into our criticism - ignore the Left’s threats and even use their own methods against them. If every GOP congresscriter said that Obozo is a fraud how long before it became effective. And by the way, I mean every one of them, not just the cannon fodder at the bottom of the heap, but also the mealymouthed GOP leaders.

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