Re: Ah the Democrats didn't get Karl Rove

kingrighter700@xxxxxxxxx wrote in news:1130720842.856456.231950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> US pressidency 2000, 2004, US House, US Senate, majority of states have
>
> Republican governors and assemblies. And you have Howard Dean for a
> party
> chairman.
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> Yep, you ar a bunch of losers.
>
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> But keep on criminalizing politics. Make it obvious one cannot depend
> on
> "justice".
>
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> Then cry when the bloodbath comes. >>>>>>>>>
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> If it's a crime, how can it be "criminilizing"? You know, that's just
> another lying slogan that gets repeated ad nauseum until the opposition
> either has too much, or gives in to the B.S. just to get you to stop
> whining. Poor losers.
>
> King Righter
>
>

I read an interesting bit about how when one side is losing and looks like it cannot regain power how the
members of that group become more and more delusionary. Everything becomes a matter of saving civilization,
no matter how trivial the issue. Thier opposition becomes the very personification of evil.

Here it is, knew I could find it.

Proper attribution. http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2005/10/29/20051029_211800_flash6.htm

BROOKS: WHY ARE DEMS SO OVERHEATED?
Sat Oct 29 2005 17:15:12 ET

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald did not find evidence to prove that there was a "broad conspiracy to
out a covert agent for political gain. He did not find evidence of wide-ranging criminal behavior. He did not
even indict the media's ordained villain, Karl Rove," writes David Brooks in Sunday's NY TIMES.

"Leading Democratic politicians filled the air with grand conspiracy theories that would be at home in the
John Birch Society."

"Why are these people so compulsively overheated?.. Why do they have to slather on wild, unsupported charges
that do little more than make them look unhinged?

Brooks quotes from an essay written 40 years ago by Richard Hofstadter called "The Paranoid Style in American
Politics."

Hofstadter argued that sometimes people who are dispossessed, who feel their country has been taken away from
them and their kind, develop an angry, suspicious and conspiratorial frame of mind. It is never enough to
believe their opponents have committed honest mistakes or have legitimate purposes; they insist on believing
in malicious conspiracies.

"The paranoid spokesman," Hofstadter wrote, "sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms -- he traffics
in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always
manning the barricades of civilization." Because his opponents are so evil, the conspiracy monger is never
content with anything but their total destruction."

Brooks summarizes: " So some Democrats were not content with Libby's indictment, but had to stretch, distort
and exaggerate. The tragic thing is that at the exact moment when the Republican Party is staggering under
the weight of its own mistakes, the Democratic Party's loudest voices are in the grip of passions that render
them untrustworthy."

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