Comments on: Right Wing Treason

By: Les

Les — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:25:32 +0000

As a conservative, I was not in favor of many things that President Bush did and I do not like the extreme right fringe, however, I am just as upset by the extreme left that physically assaulted Sarah Palin with tomatoes and the questionable tactics of the Democrats in congress used in gaining votes by buying of senators from certain states with unequal state funding. Corruption within the ranks of congress is much more troublesome than fringe comments or activities that most conservatives and liberal disdain. If a bill cannot stand on its own, backroom deals and front room bribery are the highest form of corruption that will cause an overthrow of the government. Our system was set up to balance the power and prevent this type of corruption. Now it is being used and called just ordinary politics!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:17:45 +0000

Ben, thanks for the reply – I appreciate your take on this.

I can see your point about “is going” versus “might”. My thinking is that I see the intensity of the feelings against Obama. And already we have protesters brandishing firearms. The combination strongly suggests to me that someone is going to try something. I hope I’m wrong of course, and if not, I hope that they fail abysmally.

The rest of your reply is exactly my point. The fringe right will not listen to me. Heck, they probably won’t listen to you. But what you can do is de-legitimize them. At certain points the fight should not be right versus left. It should be reasonable people versus unreasonable people.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:01:21 +0000

I guess I just wish you had changed “is going” to “might”. Perhaps I’m tired of being lumped in with these “right-wing” wackos just because I’m on the right. John McCain is “Right-Wing”, but he is not a wacko, and I’m with him on most things. I agree with the spirit of your post. I suppose we do need to shut up the kooks among us on the right and take them to task.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:27:56 +0000

“How then, do you you differ from Mr. Perry?”

Because he approves of the scenario he outlines as a possibility, virtually rooting for it to happen. On the other hand, I think the possibility I raise would be a tragedy if it were to occur.

Look at how we each describe the perpetrator of the respective scenarios. He thinks the leader of an armed rebellion would be a “patriot”. I think anyone who tried to carry out the possibility I suggested would be an “unhinged lunatic”.

Perry describes a tragedy and approves of it. I describe a tragedy and condemn it.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:09:01 +0000

Why would you print this unequivocal prediction?

“Eventually, some unhinged, right-wing lunatic is going to take these sorts of paranoid ravings to heart and take a shot at the President.”

You say it with such certainty. It’s like a freaking prophecy. How then, do you you differ from Mr. Perry? He speculates on the possibility of a bloodless coup, you predict an assasination attempt with an air of certainty. Your heart is in the right place. That’s nice, but you’re still predicting bad things here, just like Mr. Perry, and the only difference is in our perception of your disapproval of this prediction.

By: gedblog » Blog Archive » Right Wing Roundup

gedblog » Blog Archive » Right Wing Roundup — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:06:28 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Media Matters provides its own round up of extremist right-wing rhetoric and it’s not pretty. Meanwhile at Pleade The First, my friend Anthony rightfully calls out conservatives to stand up to this subversive speech and call it out for what it is – treason. [...]