Posted on 04/04/2009 7:18:55 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Anti-Obama talk worries some on right By: Michael Calderone April 4, 2009 06:45 AM EST
While Washington policy makers coped with 21st century political problems this week, some conservative talkers were dredging up 20th-century "-isms."
Glenn Beck, who graced the cover of The New York Times on Monday, teased Fridays episode of his increasingly popular new Fox News show with images of Stalin, Lenin and Hitler, while telling audiences on Wednesdays show that he was wrong to have said the Obama administration is leading America to socialism its actually fascism.
Theyre marching us towards 1984, Beck said. "Big Brother, hes watching.
Although Becks brand of libertarian conservatism has generated a strong following, some members of the right-leaning commentariat openly doubt whether such heated rhetoric is helpful to the Republican Party or the conservative movement at large.
Conservative author David Horowitz, himself no stranger to controversy or heated accusations, warns that the criticism of Obama among some conservatives has approached over-the-top hysteria." Its not just Stalin comparisons, Horowitz wrote this past week on FrontPageMag.com one contributor likened the president to David Koresh, Charles Manson and Saddam Hussein.
Borrowing from conservative writer Charles Krauthammer who in 2003 coined the term Bush derangement syndrome to describe some Bush haters Horowitz dubbed the piece, Obama Derangement Syndrome.
Conservatives, please, Horowtiz said. Let's not duplicate the manias of the left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the right are convinced he is.
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...Im hopeful that someday we can rally around this moniker....
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No, thanks, I do not want “libertarian” used to describe my political leanings.
Like Keyes? he has LOST every single election he has run. He can call Obama all the names he wants but he is not the best example for elected, in fact he's no example, never been elected.
I do like Keyes. Yeah, he sacres the pink tutu Republicans because he’s “scare” the moderates. But then again, pretty much everything “scares” moderates.
In the meantime, the libs give out the same advice to us about what we need to do to be successful.
So when I have the libs and pink tutu Republicans telling me in stereo I’m wrong, I’m right.
BTW, call Ayers and Obama Marxists is NOT name calling. It is what they are and that should have been hammered home and make him address it. He could only smile and dismiss it for so long, but the pink tutu Republicans couldn’t take the heat and wilted.
Anything that doesn’t absolutely cave to the liberal destroy America agenda seems to scare the moderates.
Screw this. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
He doesnt scare me and he can say anything he wants about democrats for all I care. But for him to demand that elected republicans call Obama names, when Obama is so popular, meaning committing political suicide, when Keyes have never held elected office, is downright silly. It's like saying we want every elected Republican to lose their election, but then stand outside capital (with ALL democrats) with a sign that says “Down with Marxists”
Better to go after republicans for their unprinciped votes with democrats, that would be constructive. Name calling Obama to most americans is like holding a sign that says "I am a crack-pot"
You have every right to feel this way, and to some extent I feel the same way. All the talk last year was about hope and change and, to an extent “unity”. Considering what the Left has said and done, not just to George Bush, but also to those great conservatives and Republicans that we’ve lost the last eight years (I’m not going to go through the list, we all know what was said about whom), they should be hanging their heads in shame. Instead, they engage in phony rhetoric designed to fool the idiot masses into thinking that they actually give a rat’s behind about the country or the institutions that make the country great. Just remember, though, that every time that petulant child in the White House stumbles, it’s not just him that the rest of the world is laughing at.
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