Posted on 03/21/2007 11:47:16 AM PDT by bilhosty
THESE are good times for moonbats, hard times for wingnuts. This bodes ill for Democratic prospects in 2008. "Moonbat" is a term popularized by the Web logger Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) to describe people on the extreme left. "Wingnut" is a term coined by liberals to describe those on the extreme right. Most of us learn by the third grade the difference between addition and subtraction. But both moonbats and wingnuts think a majority can be built by driving away everyone who doesn't agree with them totally on everything. Little better illustrates the rising influence of moonbats than the on-again, off-again efforts of Democratic leaders in Congress to hamstring the war effort in Iraq by imposing crippling conditions on the defense appropriations bill. The Washington Post doesn't think much of the strategy: "[House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi's strategy leads not to a responsible withdrawal from Iraq but to a constitutional power struggle with Mr. Bush, who has said he will veto the bill," the Post said in an editorial Tuesday. "Such a struggle would serve the interests of neither the Democrats nor the country." The Los Angeles Times isn't thrilled with it, either: "The plan is an unruly mess: bad public policy, bad precedent and bad politics," the Times said in an editorial Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
Careful you don't step on some toes here.
The article is the truth.
The first documented use of the term in a modern political context was in 1999, by National Review columnist Jonah Goldberg
BTTT
Well said by the author. If he agrees with Duncan Hunter, Jack Kelly's no liberal.
It's perfectly all right to prefer someone else. The candidate whose views are closest to my own - Rep. Duncan Hunter of California - is a wingnut favorite. But you have to have a wingnut's grasp of reality to imagine that Mr. Hunter has a realistic chance to win the GOP nomination.
What is not all right is the viciousness with which wingnuts attack the frontrunners. They would rather have a 20 percent enemy than an 80 percent friend. But the fact that Mayor Giuliani, Senator McCain, and Governor Romney are the frontrunners indicates rank and file Republicans are giving wingnuts the attention they deserve.
When any candidate departs from conservative principles, it is our duty to point it out. If they do it most of the time, then they're not conservatives and should not be accpetable to conservatives.
But anythign with an R after it seems fine to some of the bots here. And they will not allow any criticiam of their liberal RINO friends.
I prefer to be called a knuckle dragger myself.
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