ThatDamnedPanda
Posts: 6060
Joined: 1/26/2009 Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: DomImus quote:
ORIGINAL: rulemylife Which is not a defense of your conservative brethren. To that end why do you feel that those of us who do lean to the right have to defend anyone? We have to defend what Rush says. We have to defend what Hannity says. We have to defend what Glenn Beck. Liberals pick the biggest lightning rods that they possibly can and then anoint them as the standard bearers of the conservative movement and suddenly we have to defend them. They are only people with their own biased partisan opinions - just like you and I sometimes and Brain all of the time. You're absolutely right; you don't have to defend anyone. But the fact that so many conservatives have anointed them the standard bearers of American conservativism - not just the militant rank-and-filers waving their poorly-spelled protest signs, but major political figures up to and including the chair of the Republican National Committee - puts the rest of you conservatives in the uncomfortable position of having to explain them nonetheless. The fact that a significant number, and perhaps even the majority, of your party have proclaimed them to be spokespersons for your cause directly affects the credibility of all conservatives. It may not be the cross you chose to bear, but it's the cross your own ideological leaders deliberately placed upon you.
_____________________________
Panda, panda, burning bright In the forest of the night What immortal hand or eye Made you all black and white and roly-poly like that?
|