I added a comment to Eric’s post Another day, another boring post on an irritating peripheral issue. I think it deserves a wider audience So here it is amended with some links added.
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Part of a comment I made on another thread:
I am going to pit brother against brother. Fathers against sons. Mothers against daughters.
We will be lucky to escape a full blown civil war.
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Here is a bit I put in a recent e-mail:
…let me tell you what I have found by stirring the pot on my blogs.
Neither our allies nor our enemies on the right are ready for what is coming. Our allies say “Not now. It is the economy, stupid.” And of course our enemies say “Not ever.” It is my belief that only Sarah Palin can bring the right around. She commands respect and the last thing she said on the subject was roughly: “We have better things to do.”
I have contacted her (through several avenues including Jews For Sarah) and I think she will be prepared when the issue breaks on a week from this Sunday. Note: the vast majority of replies I get from posting comments at “Conservatives 4 Palin” are supportive. In fact no negative ones so far. I keep posting links there. Maybe I will find an objection yet.
I am so pumped up waiting for 2 Oct. BTW on the left I’m sure Peter Lewis is getting ready (a recent article in Forbes that was very understated re: numbers), George Soros and Mrs. Kerry have been at it for years. And Mrs. Huffington has been at it since at least 2001 (she and I traded e-mails for a while on the subject). That is a lot of money and pixels in the wings waiting for the fires to start raging.
I’m sorry to tell you I am a member in bad standing of the Stupid Party. I’m rather proud of the bad standing though.
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Funny thing I have noticed and mentioned above. The subject of the WODs scares my allies on the right to death. Why? Isn’t it obvious?
If it is a big component of the next election the Republican Party as it is currently constituted stands a good chance of losing. I agree.
My attitude is not about winning or losing. Given the choice between socialism now or socialism later what is the point?
Though the heavens fall, let justice be done.
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The fear on the Right that the WODs will come up in the next election is so palpable that you can taste it. (how is that for mixing metaphors?)
Even my enemies on the right when it comes to the the subject of the WODs believe that if it comes up in the next election cycle they stand a good chance of losing.
I do understand that fear. So I ask them? Why not retreat and take the issue off the table? Silence.
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Not in my comment:
Commenter Randy in a comment I can’t find right now. Said to the effect:
If you sit at home and get blitzed on alcohol to the point of falling down on the floor and puking your guts out, is no cause for police action.
If you take one puff off a joint the police can send in a SWAT Team with safeties off and throw in a couple of flash bang grenades to make sure you don’t make that mistake again for 5 to 20 years. When I was growing up the only place I saw that sort of thing was in movies. And who was doing it in the movies? Nazis.
Godwin says I’m done. So be it.