[rdb3]

Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

One can't break it down better than this.

[kingsurfer]

I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.

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I left some time after 9-11. I was studying Politics at University then read Machiavelli's "The Prince". It made me realise just because we are left wing idealists that our enemies will look favourably on us. They will see weakness and take advantage.

[brivette]

He's from San Francisco, and he's leaving his brothers behind.

[FreeKeys]

"I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together. ... My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom. -- Keith Thompson, San Francisco Chronicle, May 22, 2005

Wow. I'm saving this quote for future use.

[krunkygirl]

I wonder how old Mr. Thompson is--I'm guessing he is older and, hence, can still remember a Democrat party with principles.

[CBart95]

Well don't any of you "rebels" expect a hearty welcome from normal red-staters. We don't like persons who sprinkle their writing with too many "I's" and who write with a lisp.

[TADSLOS]

Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

America's "peace movers" aren't about America or peace. They are about socialism.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I'd like to see millions more of these "Zel Miller Wanna-Bes." I would personally read each and every opus they publish. :)

[IronJack]

they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

That could actually be enlarged to read "They hate George W. Bush more than they love _______________." Their hatred for Bush is their defining passion.

But to be fair, an equal hatred for Bill Clinton defined many on the Right for eight long years.

[Allegra]

I've never voted Democrat.

I wonder if it hurts of if you feel all dirty after doing so?

[EternalHope]

We need more like him. A LOT more like him.

[speedy]

Written with the clarity and intensity of the convert. Like Horowitz, Kirkpatrick, Whittaker Chambers and many others, the converts often become the most eloquent and most militant Conservatives, because they have a grasp of the dark side that those of us who were genetically right wing can see but have never actually felt. Wish this guy well; he's going to be disowned by all his old friends.

[GreenHornet]

Two events happened in in 1992 that caused me to leave the left: Bill Clinton became President, and I began listening to Rush Limbaugh on a daily basis.

[Enterprise]

"they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom."

Who did they hate before George W. Bush, and who are they going to hate after him?

[Tacis]

Since when has a flash of truth changed the filthy and corrupt nature of the crapweasel dem? He is in San Francisco, he works for the Chronicle, lies and deceit are all he knows.

He is what he is. The true insight gained from a batch of bad dope or the realization that the AIDS cocktail is no longer working may be ephemeral. Let's see what the guy says over the next six months (assuming, even, that he is employable) and then decide if he is really a convert.

His words are exactly what normal people of honest vision have been saying for years.

[Publius6961]

Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self-determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

It may take a few more years to see the entire picture clearly, but they never loved freedom.

The type of personality that calls itself "progressive" only objects to fascism and totalitarianism solely because they are not the ones in possession of the whips.

[Maceman]

What a great, eloquent and powerful piece. I'm going to send it to every leftist friend and relative I know (and I know a bunch, since I live in Massachusetts).

Thanks for posting it.

[Mr. Mojo]

Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. .....The right cheers. The left demurs.

Only because a GOP administration is responsible for it all. Had a Democrat been in the WH at the time the left would be calling the liberation of Iraq the greatest military and human rights victory since their beloved FDR saved the world from fascism, and would be trumpeting the fact that their guy "did what President (Herbert Walker) Bush couldn't do a decade earlier."

Principle means nothing to them, and party means everything.

....not unlike many who call themselves Republicans.

[aculeus]

Bump!

[Nuc1]

I would like to tell him this.

Welcome to the rational world. Now stop hiding behind the rhetoric of how I came to leave the left and examine the following statement rationally.

The left has never supported oppressed people. The left has always supported the oppression of people.

The left you abhor hasn't just come into being, it has always been the way it is today. They are exposed because they cannot seduce us any longer.

Again welcome.