Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [143]
There is no coherence to the Left’s positions, except its will to destroy. When Islamic terrorists came along, liberals rushed to their defense, having more warmth of feeling for violent Muslims than, for example, a Methodist women’s Bible study. Liberals’ Islamic friends practice clitorectomies, honor killings, and dropping walls on gays. (Other than that, they’re mostly peaceful.) Is that part of the beautiful mosaic of multiculturalism? Do liberals suppose Osama bin Laden railed, What I cannot abide is that the United States didn’t sign the International Treaty on the Rights of the Child! … Hey, why can’t I get Two and a Half Men in my cave? … WHAT? THE UNITED STATES IS TRYING TO OUTLAW LATE-TERM ABORTION??? That is the last straw!
The only common thread is destruction. It’s the only move a mob has.
Liberals care less about achieving their vision of a centralized government than they do about destroying their enemies. Night after night, MSNBC hosts will maniacally fixate on some conservative they hate—Bill O’Reilly, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, David Koch, Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, Glenn Beck—even beauty pageant winner Carrie Prejean. It’s impossible to imagine such obsessive public shamings on Fox News or even CNN. The sneering and snickering at opponents—out of all proportion to any principled disagreement—is a specialty of the Left.
Democrats didn’t love Soviet agents as much as they detested “red-baiters” like Joe McCarthy. They didn’t like Clinton as much as they hated Ken Starr, Linda Tripp, and the rest of the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” They didn’t even admire Saddam Hussein as much as they despised Dick Cheney. Some liberals still trundle off to the National Archives every Saturday to listen to the Nixon tapes so they can hate him even more. Please—it’s 2011.
Conservatives aren’t wild about their opponents, but only because of ideological disagreements. Conservatives didn’t want ObamaCare; they aren’t hoping Obama will slip on a banana peel so they can laugh at him. Ask yourself if liberals wish for that with Sarah Palin and you will see the difference in the right and left in America.
Conservatives wanted to liberate Iraq—and if liberals like Joe Lieberman and Alan Dershowitz did, too, we were happy to have them. Conservatives want a free market without burdensome government red tape—and if George McGovern agrees, we’re happy to have him. Conservatives believe in protecting unborn humans—and if Nat Hentoff, Christopher Hitchens, and Jack Nicholson agree, we’re happy to have them.
Liberals get excited about conservative defectors only when they’re dishing dirt on Sarah Palin’s e-mail account5 or about George W. Bush’s secret hatred of Christians.6
Ron Paul, Bob Novak, and Pat Buchanan all agreed with the Left on foreign policy, but liberals still shunned them. It’s not agreement with liberals on a particular issue that wins their phony “respect,” it’s attacking other conservatives. This is the basis of the expression “Strange New Respect,” which is what liberals accord those conservatives who so crave liberal approval, they will gratuitously attack fellow conservatives. It is the slutty girl’s path to popularity. Senator John McCain won “Strange New Respect” from the Left when in 2000—for no reason—he attacked Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as “agents of intolerance” who “shame our faith, our party and our country.”7
Liberals loathe conservative women beyond reason, perceiving them as the natural keepers of religious faith and morality. Republicans dislike Harry Reid about the same as they dislike Nancy Pelosi, and they dislike Hillary about the same as Bill. (And, of course, conservatives wouldn’t physically attack any of them.) But Democrats reserve unfathomable venom, often coupled with physical violence, for conservative women—Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Phyllis Schlafly, Condoleezza Rice, Christine O’Donnell, and Nikki Haley.
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