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Liberals And Leftists Have Been Dismissing Inconvenient Facts By Attacking Motives For Generations. In The 1930s, '40s, And '50s, Soviet Spies And Abettors Attacked The Motives Of Their Accusers Because The Fact Of Their Guilt Was Undeniable. In The 1960s, Over A Thousand Psychiatrists Who'd Never Even Met Barry Goldwater Signed A Petition Saying The Gop Candidate Was Too Mentally Unstable To Be President.

Free Trade Has Been Proven, Time And Again, As A Reliable Path To Economic Development. It Pushes The Public And Private Sectors Alike Toward Greater Accountability And Transparency. It Lifts People Out Of Poverty, And While It Can Force Unsettling Changes On A Society, Those Changes Prove To Be Worthwhile In A Very Short Time.

Why Is It Fair Game To Question Conservatives' Love Or Loyalty To Children Or To Their Fellow Man, But Beyond The Pale To Question Liberals' Love Of Country?

Seriously, In 2008 We Elected A Community Organizer, State Senator, College Instructor First Term Senator Over A Guy Who Spent Five Years In A Vietnamese Prison. And Now He's Lecturing Us About How America's Gone "soft"? Really?

You Know Those Navy Seals, They Weren't Democrats And Republicans. They Were Just Doing What Was Best For America. Wouldn't That Be A Great Country If All Of You Americans Were Just Like That? You Followed Orders, You Marched In Step And You Followed My Agenda.