Ten-Year Old Disputes

I've heard two of them this week.  First, most famously/infamously, is the whole "Selected, not elected" theme from the 2000 election, otherwise known as "Democrats are sore losers."

Once again, a seemingly-intelligent man like Michael Kinsley has to rehash the whole 2000 election arguments that the Supreme Court was wrong to admonish the Florida Supreme Court for not following their own state's constitution, and that it was wrong to impose a consistent method of counting ballots state-wide.

Second was courtesy of the snarky, irreverent Chris Bradshaw.  His radio program advertisements bill him as wanting to "have the discussion" with people who don't think like him.  Not quite:  He wants to mock and belittle those who don't think like him.  There's a word for that:  Jerk.

Bradshaw, like most liberals, are incapable of recognizing a logical argument that draws a different conclusion than their own.  The argument must be corrupted by bigotry, fear, hate, etc.  In other words, the other person is evil.

Bradshaw's target today was Senator John McCain. McCain led the fight against the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell over the weekend.  Rather than give consideration to a man who not only served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America, but was tortured by an immoral enemy for doing so, and give consideration that the man's opinion of DADT's repeal was based on those years of service and experience, Bradshaw chose to ignore the man's informed opinion and characterize him as a bigot.  Bradshaw also lamented what happened to the McCain of 10 years ago.

It is here where I almost burst a cranial blood vessel.

When, for instance, a more conservative candidate is competing against John McCain in a presidential primary campaign, liberals, especially their high priests and priestesses in the media, are going to build up McCain as being the more sensible (i.e. more liberal) candidate.

As we saw in the 2008 primaries, that's exactly what the media did.  Then, almost overnight, they tore down the same man they'd been building up.  Why?  Because he was more conservative than their preferred liberal candidate.

Rather than pit a principled conservative against Obama, the liberals in the media saw their preferred candidate's chances as better if he was running against a RINO with a history of deal-making with the opposition, rather than have Obama pitted a conservative who'd mop the floor with him on policy.

Want further proof?  Hillary Clinton's sudden establishment of residency in NY state was hardly ever questioned when she ran against Guiliani for U.S. Senator from NY.  But she turned into the  Wicked Witch of the West when running against Obama.

But I digress.  Bradshaw couldn't help himself:  By bringing up how he missed the McCain of 10 years ago, he had to rehash the "black baby" story.

I learned a new term today:  Whisper campaign.  It's one that's anonymous.  Anonymous.

Bradshaw reminded listeners of the "most-underreported story of the 2000 election", of how evil genius Karl Rove orchestrated a campaign of misinformation about John McCain allegedly having fathered a black child out of wedlock.  As an afterthought, Bradshaw appended the word "allegedly."

Like I said, it was a whisper campaign, it was anonymous.  Anonymous.  A-N-O-N-Y-M-O-U-S.

So how does Bradshaw know it was Karl Rove?  It could have just as likely been Democrats try to drive a wedge in the opposition party.  Could have been the Jews.  Or the Illuminati.

Two things I'm reminded of.  The first is the quote by Ronald Reagan:  "Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so."

The second is the description of the defense mechanism of projection.  People often see their own negative character traits in their enemies.