MORE HATRED, MORE VENOM – PLEASE
By Don Feder
June 20, 2008
When
someone starts yammering about transcending partisanship, renouncing “hatred and
venom” and “bringing us together” – head for the hills. He’s talking
capitulation on the right, with long lines of defeated, dejected conservatives in
tattered uniforms being marched away to political POW camps.
Former
Bush flak Scott McClellan, author of a tell-all book on his White House service,
is worse than a rat fink. He’s worse even than a fawning sycophant craving the
establishment’s favor. He’s a defeatist who bids his party to stand with him in
the middle of a four-lane highway at rush-hour. Can we say “road-kill”?
Here’s
an excerpt from an interview Bill O’Reilly did with the weasel on June 2.
O’Reilly:
“OK. Now when you come to the realization that what you write in your book see
it being used by people who absolutely want the worst for this country and this
administration, doesn’t that give you pause at all.”
Doing
a passable impression of Uriah Heep,
McClellan responded: “But the whole thing about the book (his book – “What Happened Inside the Bush White House and
Note the weasel renounced “venom” not once but twice,
thereby establishing his sensitivity and sincerity.
Three
observations are in order:
First, McClellan is begging for the
establishment’s approbation, particularly the mainstream media.
When
an ostensible Republican starts whimpering that we have to overcome enmity and
work together, he’s asking to be loved. He’s telling the world that he’s not
one of those mean, cranky old reactionaries sowing seeds of discord wherever
they go. He’s enlightened, compassionate and reasonable, and wants to build
bridges to those who seek our annihilation.
Two:
By calling himself a “centrist,” McClellan
acknowledges that he has few principles – and those are negotiable. Tell me
what a man will fight for, and I’ll tell you what he’s made of. McClellan is a
big cipher.
Three:
A call to non-partisanship is a call to surrender. It’s a truce only one side will
honor. It’s akin accepting a wolf pack’s invitation to dinner, with the menu to
be determined later.
What’s
needed in national politics is more partisanship not less (partisanship here
defined as adherence to principle).
Liberals
are loathsome and deserve to be despised. With the left ascendant everywhere
this year, venom should be delivered in stainless steel drums by the truckload.
Most
of the cutting-edge issues that divide us are incapable of a negotiated
resolution.
·
Michigan Governor
Jennifer Granholm is threatening to veto a
partial-birth-abortion ban – for the second time. How do you split the
difference between jamming surgical scissors into the base of an unborn child’s
skull and suctioning out its brain, and not committing this gruesome act?
Suctioning out only part of the brain? But do we really need more Democratic
voters?
·
What’s the
centrist position in dealing with
·
Is civil unions the compromise position on gay marriage – give
homosexuals all of the privileges of marriage but reserve the name alone for
normal relationships? In civil-union states, activists are pushing just as hard
for same-sex marriage.
·
How do we work
together to counter spiraling gas prices? Environmental-wackos
(that is, a majority of Congress) are adamantly opposed to off-shore drilling,
exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (mustn’t disturb the
caribou), the development of nuclear power and building more refineries. In the
meantime, they insist on strict enforcement of the Kyoto Treaty, which will
raise energy costs for producers and consumers alike. If we ask them really
nicely, maybe they’ll let us drill on Mars – assuming there are no caribou
there.
·
How about hate
crimes laws and campus speech codes? How do you compromise with censors who
want to gag you and punish dissent from liberal orthodoxy?
·
How about a deal
on judicial rape of the Constitution? Activist judges agree to only
misinterpret the First and Fourteenth Amendments, but not the Second and Fifth?
Judicial autocrats can only legislate from the bench on alternate days of the
week?
·
We’ve reached the
following arrangement with the Red Chinese: They’ll continue to engage in
massive human rights violations, enforce their maniacal one-child-per-family
policy, augment their war machine, hack our computer networks, and rattle their
sabers at
·
Similarly, the
Israelis have agreed to keep surrendering land and releasing jailed terrorists
(what Condeoleezza Rice calls “confidence-building
moves”). In return, the Palestinians have agreed to keep firing rockets into
the rest of
“Get
rid of the venom and hatred”? But the left deserves to be hated; it merits our
derision and scorn.
Obama,
Clinton, Gore, Reid, Pelosi, Kennedy, Carter, Soros, Huffington and the rest of the loathsome lot are destroying
our country -- ruining our economy, pulverizing the middle class, undermining
national security, and attacking Judeo-Christian morality at every turn.
How
should we respond: By asking them if they’re having a bad hair day? By
announcing “Somebody needs a hug!”
Ted
Kennedy is the quintessential representative of the American left.
A
member of the United States Senate for longer than most Americans have been
alive, Kennedy has spent the last 46 years raising taxes and piling regulations
on productive Americans, attacking business, pushing racial preferences, advancing
abortion, blocking votes on judges who will defend the Constitution, promoting
amnesties for illegal aliens, and working diligently to make America less free,
less safe and less decent.
After
his successful surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor (in which he benefited
from the best health-care system in the world), the Senator announced that he
couldn’t wait to join Barack Obama
in campaigning for socialized medicine.
Just
as Kennedy’s fiscal policies are intended to ensure that members of the middle
class will never amass the Kennedys’ wealth, his push
for national health care is intended to guarantee that ordinary Americans one
day enjoy the medical services of
Two
possibilities arise: Liberals are unbelievably stupid – so dumb that they need
help tying their shoes and not walking into walls – or they’re malicious malcontents
consumed by envy and animated by a lust for power – in a word, evil.
You
don’t compromise with evil, negotiate with it, sign truces with it, or look for
a middle way. You expose it and oppose it.
If
heeded, McClellan’s entreaty to disavow what he calls “hatred and venom,” would
result in a unilateral disarmament in the war of words.
The
left will continue to call us fascists, racists, hateful, selfish and
heartless, greedy, superstitious, Neanderthals, anti-science, paranoid,
delusional, hypocritical and war-mongers.
In
his book, “Makers And Takers,” Hoover Institution
scholar Peter Schweizer notes the way conservatives
are routinely libeled by the left.
In
“Conservatives Without A Conscience,” John Dean (a weasel from a previous Republican
administration) described conservatives as “arrogant, condescending and
self-righteous” – unlike, say, Hillary
Clinton, who’s humble, down-to-earth (her autobiography should have been
titled, “Here’s Looking Down On You, Kid”) and non-judgmental.
Howard
Dean, head of the Democratic National Committee, calls conservatives “evil,”
“corrupt,” and “brain-dead.”
Humorist
Garrison Keillor (who’s as funny as genital herpes)
prefers the subtle approach, describing Republicans as “swamp developers and
corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles,
Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking
midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brown-shirts in
pinstripes, sweat-shop tycoons, aggressive dorks …”
You
see the state where a disabled woman was denied nutrition and water for 6 days,
until she literally starved and dehydrated to death, it’s red too. Wait, I
forgot, Begala and company condone that particular
murder.
The
point of Begala’s pointless drivel is guilt by
association -- indicting the average red-state (conservative) voter as a
violent bigot and militia nut-case.
Apparently,
there is no racism, anti-Catholicism or senseless violence in blue states. In
true-blue
Blue
states generally have higher rates of violent crime (including murder), divorce
and addiction – and lower rates of charitable giving and church-attendance–
than their red-state counterparts.
Liberals
are masters of the fine art of the political smear. They don’t want a debate.
They can’t debate. Their idea of a dialogue is invectives strung together with
ad hominems, with a few jeers and catcalls thrown in
for good measure.
Get
beyond the hatred and the venom? For the left, that’s all there is. Since
reality contradicts their worldview –- because they are incapable of using
logic or making rational arguments – hatred and venom are all they have.
Demonizing
the opposition has been SOP for the left -- from the French Revolution, to
Leninism and Stalinism, to the nihilism of the ‘60s new left, to the
anti-Americanism and reverse racism that dominate our college campuses today, to
the defamation of Christianity and Middle America emanating from Hollywood,
academia, the mainstream media and the Democratic Party.
McClellan
is an intellectual fraud and a poseur.
His call to eschew “hatred and venom” and “find out how we can come
together” is an invitation to suicide on the right – imbibing slow poison just
to show how nice we are.
This commentary originally appeared at
GrassTopsUSA.com