Posted by
Scottie on Saturday, November 08, 2008 10:39:59 PM
This seems to be the attitude of the Lefties in my life after the historic election of Barack Obama. It would seem a reasonable request. But it comes from a group of people that among other things:
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1. Have earnestly complained for the past eight years about the 2000 election being fixed, and stolen by George Bush. I heard more often than I can count how George Bush wasn’t THEIR president. But we are now expected to silently ignore the massive voter fraud perpetrated by ACORN? Surely they can see the irony?
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2. Have perpetrated memes questioning the integrity of President Bush as a liar and a puppet of Halliburton. How many times in the past eight years have I heard these absurd lies perpetuated by the same people that now want conciliation from us? Yet we are to accept as truthful the President Elect’s word that he sat in a church for twenty years and never heard any anti-American or bigoted rants from his pastor and mentor? Are we also to conclude he was being truthful when he passed off as inconsequential his abiding friendship and collaboration with an activist revolutionary? I also seem to recall his promise to accept public funding in the election, but he didn’t. You can spin that any way you wish, but that still rings as a bald faced lie to me. As far as I can see, their man has told a lot of bald-faced honest-to-goodness lies to obtain his current position. Isn't the dissonance here almost palpable?
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3. Have peddled the attack on our beloved homeland as a conspiracy by our own government. This has been endlessly repeated by rabidly anti-Bush zealots since the attack occurred. This nattering has continued despite every single aspect of any possible conspiracy having been thoroughly debunked. Yet now we are asked to give President Obama the benefit of the doubt when the inevitable attack his projection of weakness will provoke becomes reality? His own Vice President elect has predicted the attack in advance. Surely there is ample fodder for some conspiracy theories should Joe Biden prove prescient. It's a fair observation, isn't it?
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4. Have trashed George Bush for doing what he deemed necessary to protect us from an avowed and implacable enemy. In that effort, he has been absolutely successful for seven years. When that enemy arrives, which in all likelihood they soon will be, will our newfound friends bind Mr. Obama’s hands with the same zeal as they did President Bush’s? Will the new President be the recipient of the same vitriol from these newfound friends of ours when things go wrong? Will they finally grow up and see that it's our war and not just President Bush's?
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5. Have accused President Bush of “shredding” the Constitution. Are we now to overlook Mr. Obama’s avowal to do some shredding of his own? Are we to now stand by and tolerate the shredding of our foundational principals in the name of conciliation? Are we to accept the efforts on Mr. Obama’s part to refashion the legal foundations of our society? Do we simply ignore his vow to appoint justices to the Supreme Court that will simply reinterpret and rewrite the constitution he has sworn to protect and defend? If the constitution can mean anything you want it to mean, it doesn't really mean anything, does it?
Well let my newfound friends know this: "You have nothing to fear from conservatives as far as delegitimizing the election of your man. Nor will you hear conspiracy theories when the next attack inevitably occurs. Your man is an obvious liar, but I more fear the things he has promised to do far more than any lie you’ve ever accused President Bush of. Conservatives won’t tie Mr. Obama’s hands in his efforts to protect us; we actually want him to succeed at keeping us safe. And should the constitution actually be changed into the truly living document your current zeal demands, remember that the constitution we had before the “Change!” you so adamantly demanded served us pretty well before it was tinkered with."
All of these issues and many, many more have been blithely ignored by our newfound friends. The list above is hardly exhaustive, but it should be sobering. I see no point in mimicking the past behavior of our newfound friends. Instead I will simply ask them to take a good look around between now and the end of the year. Take note of the jobs they currently hold, the freedom they currently enjoy, and the safety and security to which they’ve become accustomed. Let them make a note today of the opportunities they currently enjoy, the quality of their healthcare, the cost of a college education, and the rate of taxes they are paying today. Please let them note how much groceries, electric and heating bills cost today. And remember what kind of cars are available today. While they stroll the gounds of their newfound kingdom, let them take note of the fruitful garden they've taken charge of.
Let us all set a benchmark as of today. Take a good look around and get a good picture of the America they're itching to “Change!” and remember it. For only by remembering what we currently have will the effects of the massive change that’s coming become as clear to them in the future as they are to me today. Not all change is a good thing. A car wreck is also a form of change.
In the meantime my new "friends", expect conservatives to fight just as hard for what they believe in as you do. Don't mistake our civility for acquiescence. Where compromise is possible, we can work together. But we haven't forgotten your terrible behavior during our turn in power, even if we won't lower ourselves to it. Among the other things I've asked you to note, perhaps you could also watch conservatives in defeat and learn how grownups handle setbacks without throwing an extended unhinged temper tantrum as your side has for the past eight years. I'll close now with one of the copybook headings of old: Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Scottie
Note how tolerant and conciliatory the lefties are acting in California with their loss on Proposition 8 (30 states in a row so far) and ask yourself if they really mean it when they say they want to work with us, or if what they are really saying is they want us to work with them when they win, but cowtow to them when they lose?