"Paroxysm's of Obloquy"

Democrats Politicize war AGAIN!

Democrat playbook by Ann Coulter:

Name calling 1. "Arguments by demonization, rather than truth and light, can be presumed to be fraudulent."

2. "The ad hominem attack is the liberal's idea of debate. They will consciously hold themselves outside the debate and make snippy personal comments about anyone who is actually talking about something."

3. “Liberals don't try to win arguments, they seek to destroy their opponents and silence dissident opinions."

4. "They [liberals] just keep moving fast and shouting out catchphrases to win the battle of the narrative."

DUMB 1. "If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments." This is how six-year olds argue: They call everything "stupid." The left's primary argument is the angry reaction of a helpless child deprived of the ability to mount logical counterarguments. Someday we will turn to the New York Times editorial page and find the Newspaper of Record denouncing President Bush for being a "penis-head." The "you’re stupid" riposte is part of the larger liberal tactic of refusing to engage ideas. Sometimes they evaporate in the middle of an argument and your left standing alone, arguing with yourself. More often, liberals withdraw figuratively by responding with ludicrous and irrelevant personal attacks. Especially popular are non-sequiturs that are savagely cruel. A vicious personal smear, they believe, constitutes a clever counterargument. Your refusal to submit to name-calling means you are overwhelmed by the force of their argument that you are a penis-head."

2. Yet the compulsion to describe every Republican president as an idiot has been part of the left's re-education efforts for over half a century. Coolidge was dumb, Eisenhower was dumb, Ford was dumb, Nixon was dumb (overshadowed by his pure evil), Quayle (standing in for his boss) was dumb, Reagan was dumb; Bush (43) is dumb. .. Liberals have not only run out of arguments, they've run out of adjectives."

Denying Analogies

1. “Another infantile trope of the left is to deny the relevance of analogies and categories, so you can never trap them. No matter how apt it is, no matter how clearly it exposes the poverty of their logic, liberals always say analogies have "changed the subject...Each case must be treated as if it just emerged from the ether, analyzed in a vacuum apart from any conceivable larger principle."

Propaganda

1. "Liberals conceive of news reporting as political propaganda and assume, therefore, that everyone else does too."

2. "The law imposes rules precisely so that liberals cannot endlessly jawbone hypothetical possibilities until they have their way."

Hypocrisy

1. "When in doubt, accuse conservatives of hypocrisy.”

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