Where Have All The Liberals Gone?
Have you noticed? Well, I did. There were no liberals at the Democratic National Convention. The word liberal was not used once from the faux Greek temple stage.
Burt Prelutsky, Townhall.com contributor, writes in his column dated September 8, 2008 entitled Dissecting Liberals, “If at times, it is not easy to determine what a liberal is, it’s because during presidential election campaigns, politicians who have
been voting like liberals, talking like liberals and boasting about their liberal credentials, suddenly insist that they’re really centrists as they go about trying to garner the votes of gullible Republicans and Independents. It’s rather like Michelle Obama trying to convince us that she’s just another stay-at-home mom who loves America and her kids, and in exactly that order.” (See my post about June Cleaver’s, whoops, I mean Michelle Obama’s speech at http://otd-log.blogspot.com/2008/08/bama-mama-or-june-cleaver.html#links)
Barack Obama, by any measure of his voting record, is the most liberal senator in Congress. Joe Biden isn’t far behind ranking #5 on the most liberal list. So if a political party nominates the most politically liberal ticket in Presidential election history, why don’t they say so? Why can they not use the word liberal?
Let’s return to Prelansky’s column. “There is a good reason, though, that liberals are liberals. By and large, they are people who never fully mature and who go through life,
like sullen teenagers, resenting figures of authority — be they police officers, members of the military, teachers who believe in discipline and academic standards in the classroom – people, in short, who have rules and values.”
They are people of moral relativism. There are no absolute truths in the world. There is your truth, this other person’s truth, and there is “my truth.” To the true liberal, “my truth” trumps all other opinions, facts and reality. “My truth” is of such value and importance that I will work through whatever means necessary to force others to live under it. “My truth” is flexible and amorphous as when a hard-pressed Bill Clinton actually told a questioning reporter, “It depends on what your definition of is is.”
They can’t use the L-word because America was founded upon and still lives by an absolute moral code, “We hold these truths to be self-evident..”, not opinions, polls, or think tanks but firm, unchanging Judeo-Christian truths.
Prelansky says,”One of the most annoying things about liberals is that when nightmarish events don’t take place as they predicted — be they concentration
camps for Jews, cataclysmic hurricanes or rising sea levels — they never admit they were mistaken. They can’t even bring themselves to acknowledge that global warming was a hoax concocted by Al Gore; instead, they merely start squawking like a barnyard full of Chicken Littles about the intentionally vague phenomenon known as climate
change.”
Barack Obama does exactly this in his interview with Fox News Bill O’Reilly when asked about the surge in Iraq aired September 4, 2008.
Barack agrees that the surge in Iraq worked but won’t admit that he was wrong in opposing the surge. O’Reilly points out that if it was up to Obama and Biden, there would have been no surge and asks Obama why he can’t say “I was right in the beginning but wrong about the surge.” Barack side-stepped, tap-danced and obfuscated through a 30 second non-answer.
Liberals cannot use the L-word in fly-over country because the vast majority of Americans don’t agree with their moral relativism, their rejection of traditional values, and their mockery and intolerance of the “gun-toting, goes to church on Sunday” majority of America. Give me a break. Oh, I forgot. America has an alternative: the straight talk, traditional values, country first, service above self express at a McCain-Palin train station (or voting booth) near you.
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