Posted on 10/12/2007 6:13:47 AM PDT by kristinn
Conservatives claim to be in favor of stable families, small businesses, hard work, private schools, investment and homeownership.
So why in the world are so many on the right attacking the family of Graeme Frost?
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The kids were treated, thanks to S-CHIP. The Frosts spoke out so the public would know that real people lie behind the acronym.
Their reward was to be trashed on right-wing blogs and talk radio as if they were multimillionaires ripping off the system. The assault on the Frosts apparently began on the Free Republic website and quickly spread to National Review Online, Power Line, and Michelle Malkin's blog, as well as Rush Limbaugh's radio show.
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OK, the Democrats are "fair game," but a 12-year-old? No wonder nobody talks about compassionate conservatism anymore.
As a general rule, I am a fan of the blogosphere. It has broadened the public debate and brought new people into politics. And nasty stuff is by no means limited to the right-wing blogs. Left-of-center blogs whose political views I largely share have published offensive stuff, too. Shaun Mullen, who blogs at The Moderate Voice--yes, there are moderate blogs--is right to generalize when he says that the targeting of the Frost family reveals "the vicious underbelly of the blogosphere."
So rather than just condemn the right-wingers as meanies, let's take their claims seriously. Doing so makes clear that they are engaged in a truly perverse and incoherent form of class warfare.
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But here is a family with modest possessions doing everything conservatives tell people they should do, and the right trashes them for getting help to buy health insurance for their children.
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The Left is just like the Taliban and AQ, using children as human shields while attacking or retreating.
So this is why the lefties try to hide behind children.
What a despicable lot.
Thanks, RD. The numbers this family provides do not add up.
“When are the Democrats going to stop hiding behind human shields, and make a forthright, rational argument for what they are proposing?”
Never. They can’t. They know their ideas can’t stand up to intellectual scrutiny, so they have to parade around the victim du jour and hope that people will feel instead of think about the policy/program/whatever.
The good thing for our side is that the playbook is getting old and more and more people can see through it. The media has accused conservatives of being big, bad meanies who want to starve schoolchildren, pollute the water and air, deprive injured children of healthcare, etc. for decades. And yet, average people can see that nobody’s starving nor dying of injuries in the street and we can all breathe the air and drink the water. So, more and more, the big lie becomes transparent.
Hence the false outrage and hysterical caterwauling in articles like these.
I'm a bit confused. Is it the 12 year old who is filing his father's income tax returns that claim a $45,000 dollar income?
If that's the case, his dad should buy the TurboTax software or take his taxes to HR Block.
I'm amazed that this dad makes his kid do the family taxes! Someone call social service....pronto! Filing taxes is cruel and unusual punishment for an adult, but to make a 12 year old do it would constitute child abuse.
/sarc.
Oh, yes -
The Dems should be able to use phony “victims” as cover to promote their socialist agenda,
and anyone who calls them on their phoniness is “mean”.
What a bunch of 10 yr olds.
And I learned from another FReeper that, in Maryland, you have to have a Personal Injury Protection (PIP) on your policy, which pays (he said) about $2,500 regardless of fault.
I wonder who paid the mother’s medical bills ... or if she was wearing her seat belt, and therefore didn’t have significant injuries.
I was helping my mother in her tax practice when I was 12 ... and look how I turned out.
Competent and ethical reporters (bear with me, here) would not write and publish such incompetent articles. Honest newspapers would not print such factual trash. But this is Dionne, writing for the Post. Ne-VER-mind.
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A perfect example of the Rats “untouchable” spokesman, per Ann Coulter.
I rest my case! :>)
“Has anyone ever posted a link to the accident report?”
I tried to find it yesterday with no luck.
I wanted to see if the officer filing the report found black ice.
Or was she speeding to get the kids to school on time.
Did they skimp on insurance for the car,as they did with health insurance.
Just like my mother :-). Anoreth and Bill say their hearing automatically switches off when I start talking “in Grandmama’s voice.” I guess I was doing it the other day in the line at Wal-mart, because the man behind us said, “Excuse me, are you from Philadelpia?”
The family made itself fair game when they allowed the 'Rats to push their 12-year old son up to a microphone and shill for them. We can't help it they were stupid for doing so.
I’m sure one of Hillary!’s million ideas, that she admits the nation can’t afford, is a program that provides liability insurance to all trees, starting (but not ending) with trees by roadsides. Eventually, all trees will by fully insured, a condition that is sadly lacking under Bush’s cruel, heartless regime.
I’m not obsessed, I just don’t want to see a liberal elected president, I don’t care what party they belong to.
It’s about time we fight back when the Democrats attempt to use human shields.
The gloves are off!
Check post #75, it was a Saturday, most schools are closed.
The paper shredders are probably chewing up accident reports from December 2004, before evil press-non-believers can see the facts for themselves.
yea, yea, yea...He will be the nominee and anyone who honestly cares about the future of this country will vote for him.
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