The Progressive Notion Of The State As

When Activists Say We Need To Move Past The Partisan Divide, What They Mean Is: Shut Up And Get With My Program. Have You Ever Heard Anyone Say, "we Need To Get Past All Of This Partisan Squabbling And Name-calling. That's Why I'm Going To Abandon All My Objections And Agree With You"?

...associational Ad Hominem Attacks Remain The Left's Favorite Rhetorical Strategy For Undermining Opponents.

But There's A Fourth Interpretation: Obama Can't Leave His Comfort Zone. No President Since Woodrow Wilson Has Been As Enamored Of Abstract Ideas Or More Sure That Disagreement With Him Is Proof Of Ignorance, Bad Faith Or Dogmatism. As A Candidate, He Insisted His Real Opponent Was 'cynicism,' And In His Address Last Week, He Returned To This Trite Formulation, Insisting Again He Was Bravely Battling The Cynics.

If You’re Too Stupid To Understand That A Philosophy That Favors A Federally Structured Republic, With Numerous Restraints On The Scope And Power Of Government To Interfere With Individual Rights Or The Free Market, Is A Lot Different From An Ethnic-nationalist, Atheistic, And Socialist Program Of Genocide And International Aggression, You Should Use This Rule Of Thumb: If Someone Isn’t Advocating The Murder Of Millions Of People In Gas Chambers And A Global Reich For The White Man You Shouldn’t Assume He’s A Nazi And You Should Know It’s Pretty Damn Evil To Call Him One.

As We All Know, The Most Effective Lies Are The Ones Sprinkled With The Most Actual Truths.