For being a good boy today you get a complimentary Dolly pic.
Posted on 05/22/2005 11:34:43 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
Leaving the left
I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity
Nightfall, Jan. 30. Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I'm separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos.
I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.
I choose this day for my departure because I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity with oppressed populations everywhere -- reciting all the ways Iraq's democratic experiment might yet implode.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
That was good stuff! A late-blooming conservative is simply a liberal who has been smacked upside the head with reality.
Thanks for being a peach.
I agree... Rush cut him off too soon. Maybe Hannity will pick up on Thompson and have him on his radio show or on Hannity & Colmes.
Welcome to FR! Are you the author of this wonderful piece?
-- another refugee from Smartland :-) (See: Orson Scott Card)
Agree - I make it a point to say The Left or Leftists, rather than liberal, because the classical liberals of our youths have become conservatives today. The Left just stole the label to try to make their brand of socialism more acceptable in polite society.
BTW, I'm in the Bay Area as well ... so far, my W'04 sticker is intact on my car. :-)
Man... that's a long brain-fart.
Awesome article.
Wise article.
No, that would be Keith Thompson.
You're lucky your car's intact.
Lefties are emotional thinkers (as opposed to intellectual thinkers) and tend to express themselve rather... nastily- until I get a carry permit I perfer to keep my 'orientation' to myself. 
Etc...
Welcome to FR! Are you the author of this wonderful piece?
This is what I meant to paste.
To the best of my knowledge you are exactly right on this. I am absolutely sure that a good many people who call themselves "liberals" would not be in the leftist camp if they did not have such an appealing sounding name as "liberal," with its connotations of liberty, to use for personal identity. If they had to use something more accurate, like leftist, the totalitarian nature of the philosophy would be much more obvious. But the American Left has a fairly long history of double speak.
If that's him, he's too cute to be a liberal anyway.
"all the libs are falling all over themselves, kissing the ring of the new Latino mayor in LA -- Newsweak giving BIG kudos -- and a "get used to it" tag?? The message is clear -- ANY ethnic is just fabulous UNLESS they're conservative -- hyprocritical maniacs!!
See the LIBS DROOL
Excerpt:
"Antonio Villaraigosa's cell phone was trilling incessantly. Every Democrat in the nation, it seemed, wanted a piece of the newly elected mayor of Los Angeles, the first Latino to win the office in 133 years. John Kerry phoned to congratulate him, as did John Edwards, Howard Dean, Al Gore and Sen. Chris Dodd. Driving to city hall last Friday as he spoke by phone with a news-week reporter, Villaraigosa interrupted the interview to field yet another call on a different phone.
"Yes, I would like to speak to Senator Clinton," he said. "Can I call you back?" he told the reporter. Afterward, Villaraigosa recounted his exchange with Hillary: "She said that she and President Clinton were just elated with my victory," and "if they could be helpful in any way in the coming weeks and months," they were eager to do so. Villaraigosa said he had responded with a few admiring words of his own. She was "an example of what I need to do as mayor of the city of Los Angeles," he had told her. "Not get so caught up in all of the national attention and focus on my job."
303 posted on 05/23/2005 10:25:40 AM PDT by STARWISE
Shirt? What shirt??? ;)
I would love to wake up one morning in America and discover that there are no liberals in America. Just hard working, God-fearing, Patriotic, Flag waving Americans!
306 posted on 05/23/2005 10:27:29 AM PDT by defconw
Deserves repeating.
Another Anikin saved from the Dark side of the force!
Good post! It's pretty much all they have. They don't have facts, logic, history or the ability for their ideas to hold up in a debate without ad hominem attacks. In short, they got nuthin'.
BTW, check out Mr. Thompson's blog on his website - it's fascinating. He had to turn the Comments feature off because he was flooded with obscene and, yes, hateful replies by the Tolerant Left(tm).
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