So far, so good at The Next Right
June 1st, 2008 by Republican By DefaultI’ve been reading some of the posts over at TheNextRight.com. It covers the spectrum of Republican opinion with a majority of the posts being relatively conservative.
There’s a pretty good article about the Ron Paul campaign. It puts it into context fairly well. I’m not a Paul fan so I’m guessing that some of his die-hard supporters would differ with the opinion presented in that post.
The left-leaning side of the site is a mixed-bag on some of the ‘moderate’ (which I consider to be ‘liberal Republican’) posts. One such post, which I won’t link to, was a typical McCain supporter bashing principled conservatives with the usual tripe. I don’t bother pointing out the error when someone posts garbage like that because I’ve found that it isn’t worth the effort.
What McCain supporters are trying to do is to paint conservatives who continue to oppose him as though they are just being petty and emotional about the issue. I do understand some of where they’re coming from, and it doesn’t paint a very good picture of them.
For the most part conservative writers and politicians stick to the issues rather than make ad hominem attacks with no basis. That type of pointless trashing generally comes from the left. Since McCain is so liberal, as Republicans go, it’s no surprise that some of his followers would be liberal. So when they post on a blog site, they post like a liberal would.
It’s fairly typical for people who have no solid arguments in a debate to turn and attack their opponents with baseless arguments. For the last eight years we’ve seen plenty in what’s known as the Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). There’s no need to point any of it out since it’s in every liberal newspaper almost every day. The proof that it’s baseless is that they’ve been pushing for Bush’s impeachment for the entire eight years and haven’t come up with a single charge against him that held up to even the slightest scrutiny. In many cases amateur bloggers were able to provide sufficient proof that the attacks were without merit.
Such is the case when liberal Republicans attack principled conservatives. Their main points in any discussion quickly fall apart and they’re left without any defense of their position. So they do what any liberal would do, they attack the messenger. It’s relatively easy to spot, particularly in the later stages of exasperation. That’s when the Hitler comparisons come out. So far it hasn’t gotten that bad, but give it time. These are liberals we’re talking about.
[Cross -posted at TheNextRight.com]
