You’re ALL nutz! Pick your battles, FReepers. This is not a good one for you. All it does is reinforce stereotypes of conservative republicans.
This is the problem DCPatriot and it has taken me ten years on FR for me to realize it.
They are not stereotypes. We have a sub culture of people who CLAIM to be conservatives but only use it as a fig leaf to cover their bigotry, hatred and myopia about the world. They are a small minority but their high visibility and self evident hysteria are huge bulls eyes for the left.
The only way we can heal it is to cut out the cancer...completely. Until then their mud will continue to splash up on our boots and the left will use it to beat us over the head and defeat us.
One more thing. Whenever one of these “bigots in a fig leaf” represent themselves and their positions as conservative and use it as a facade to legitimize their unholy beliefs, my skin crawls. It’s like nails on a chalkboard.
The point is if that is what happens to me I have to assume that there may be hundreds or thousands of others who feel the same way. The problem is it makes all those others shrink away from getting involved or even calling themselves conservative...maybe voting that way.
True conservatives need to call these people out on their BS every time we see it or we risk having the entire movement trivialized and crippled. Years ago I thought it possible to reason with them, maybe they were just misinformed or misguided. But many of them are jaded to the core and beyond any rational discussion. Their dead set position on this incident is a good example, but there are others as well.