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Sanity 102 on Sunday, November 19, 2006 7:02:54 PM
Recently, a blogger called Hugh Hewitt’s radio talk show. He expressed disgust and anger at how Conservatives have turned on their own and the big part the media—and bloggers (like his self) has played in it.
“We lost” he said (and I’m paraphrasing) “because we got so full of ourselves. We’ve made demands we have no business making…acting like spoilt children looking toward our parents (aka the government) to give us what we want, right now. Even after losing, we are still expecting our representatives and senators to confer with us before picking their leader. We are a representative government, which means we elect people to represent us and to make the decisions. We need to start allowing the people that the voters elected to do their jobs.”
I smiled.
For I have always believed that most people have an intrinsic sense of fairness and right...and I knew it was only a matter of time before the lie we wore to ease the discomfort of doing something wrong would start to unravel.
Now most people expect their politicians to tell you what they want to hear but Bill Clinton took lying to a new level. And what got to most Conservatives wasn’t the lie, but the fact that Bill was able to make the lie believable—sort of.
When Bill said, “I didn’t inhale”…people’s forehead wrinkled as they pondered the idea that “inhaling” might, MIGHT be necessary to make the act wrong. When he went on to say, “…but I didn’t really have sex with her because it was oral sex.”…most men with reluctant wives/girl friends kind of got the distinction.
For 8 long years, Conservatives watched as slippery Willy dodged attacks…if Reagan was the Teflon king…Clinton was Pam cooking spray…going every where you wanted him and some places you didn’t.
So when Bush got in—and the Dems, acting like belligerent juveniles went after him—the Conservs fought back.. Only Conservatives never fought offense . Almost in the same way Western nations are trying to fight wars…they insisted on taking the high road when being attacked—and in donning a holier-than-thou veneer, they joined the Dems in making a big deal over what they “thought” a man meant when making a birthday toast. Every time the Libs pushed, the Conservs reacted—and SOMEBODY got thrown under the bus—this so that Conservs could say…”See? We’re better than the Liberals because we EXPECT better from ourselves.”
This desire to be above the Libs so consumed the Conservs that they began to look within. Like players who seek to weed out the weak in their team in order to have only the best and the brightest left to win the championship, the Coserv pundits told their listeners/readers that they were doing it for the cause…for the party of Reagan.