(H/T: Gallup via JammieWearingFool)
A plurality of Americans identify as Conservatives, 2 -1 over Liberals. In listening to the political discourse lately, you have to wonder why the Liberal / Progressive Democrats (and Democrat Socialists) have violated their own Code of Civility that they imposed right after the Tuscon Massacre where Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot. At that time, the Left was ALL about being polite and accused the Right (mainly, but certainly not exclusive to, Sarah Palin for her use of a bullseye two years after the DSSC had done the same). How memories grow short quickly!
Everywhere you look in the left-center blogosphere, among the Obama bootlicking mainstream press, and the Democrat Socialists harbored in Congress, the TEA Party has become the scapegoat for their own bungling of their reporting and public policy. Think I kid? Here’s some of what now passes for Leftist civility:
Extremist, racist, suicide bombers, hostage takers, baby killers, America destroyers, Wahabists, delusional addicts, waging Jihad on the American people, blowing up the country, kidnappers, guns to heads, inflicting pain on the country, insane, totalitarian, Hezbullah faction of the GOP, traitors, put aside their suicide vests, domestic extremists, villains of American history, inflict massive harm on innocent victims, Taliban, Nazis, Fascists, …
I thought this was just absolutely hilarious from CNN’s LZ Granderson in telling the GOP what to do with the TEA Party:
Kick those freeloading tea partiers out.
Umm, dude, it was the "refinance my house to pay for goodie under the sun" freeloaders that wanted Obama to pay their mortgages that helped start the TEA Party movement in the first place – a reaction against the real freeloaders. He rails about "theocratic intentions". Of course he would – he has nothing better to say.
You name it, we’ve been called it. All aimed at people whose only stated belief / goal is to stop the out of control spending as it will put our kids and grandkids into financial jail for the rest of their lives – HOW will they ever pay back the current $14.5 Trillion, not to speak of the Trillions more that will be racked up because politicians cannot stand up, grow a pair, and say "NO! The Treasury is empty!". For most of the time since WW II, Fed spending has soared without slowing, buying votes and pandering to special interests and increasing crony capitalism.
All the while, the Taliban and AQ folks at Gitmo, the REAL terrorists, get free legal help from Leftist lawyers.
Why?
Again, look at that top chart. They know that they are toast if their Alinskying of the the majority of the American people doesn’t work.
Insert <Scccrrrrttttt sound here>! Yeah, they are trying to demonize a large plurality of the electorate that looks at the TEA Party favorably (or, at least the Constitutional values they hold high). Even as they lament "they won’t COMPROMISE!". Compromise – translation: stop stopping us from letting us do what WE want to do with is spend, spend, spend! Tell me, WHY should the TEA Party sacrifice a foundational principle, that of fiscal responsibility?
But yet, didn’t the Democrats NOT COMPROMISE when it came time to crafting Obamacare, when The Won famously shut down the Republican leadership with the simple words "I Won"? Didn’t they basically freeze out the Republicans during the voting and procedural malfeasance?
But that was touted as showing "political courage" (even as the Democrats numerically could do anything they wanted as the Republicans really were irrelevant)?
To answer the the emotionally charged words meant to demonize the socialists who see their grasp slipping from the levers of power and the Federal checkbook, the best line that counters them is this from Glen Reynolds at Instapundit:
This has to be the first ‘Totalitarian’ movement in the history of mankind that, if it gets everything it wants…will leave you the hell alone.”
As he says, "indeed". Imagine that – they simply want a limited government that stops telling them how they WILL live their lives even as it keeps picking their pockets simply to give to those who are really irresponsible. They want to make their own decisions for themselves and provide charity to those that deserve it.
In effect, they want the self appointed elites to shut up, their elected officials to do their jobs right, and stop having their hard earned money given to moochers as "social justice".
