[Qwinn]

"You can't get into a street fight and then be offended when the opposition lands one on your jaw!"

I would look at it more like being the guy who lets his screeching harpy of a wife kick the crap out of him all the time for years because he doesn't believe in divorce and it's wrong to hit a woman finally putting his foot down and saying "Enough" and giving back some of what he gets, but still holding back and hurting her far less than she does him.

If you really think liberals have been getting as much abuse as they throw out, I'm frankly amazed. Pick up "Slander" by Ann Coulter. Read what she cites and tell me the last time you saw a Republican say the endless litany of quotes of liberals concerning conservatives.

You should hear the list of what was said about Linda Tripp. Your jaw would drop. And she wasn't even a conservative for all I know, she just dared to cross a liberal.

Seriously - when was the last time you saw a Republican publish a book approving of a claim that any Democrat demographic group should be collectively drowned?

Please cite some examples for me of Republicans in the public square saying things about liberals that have matched "human filth" and "chimp".

Qwinn

[IronJack]

"... pathetic little parakeet males ..."
"grim, quivering angry women ... hoping to be chosen as that day's purveyor of hate."
"[liberals'] arguments are premised on lies."
"lies of Holocaust-denial proportions."

From the first three pages of Ann Coulter's Slander.

Don't get me wrong. I think we need MORE of this kind of bare-fisted rhetoric. God knows, we've let the weenies on the Left cuff us around forever. But let's not pretend to any moral high ground to which we have no legitimate claim. More bludgeon, less dudgeon.