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6.30.08 @ 12:01AM

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These are all valid arguments, and conservatives would really like for these arguments to be acknowledged and have answers for those questions. And to deny that these are valid arguments, to shove dissenters out of the public debate, to refuse to answer... that is fascism. That's not an ad hominem attack, that is the simple truth.
-- Charles Campbell
Austin, Texas

GENDER NEUTRAL
Re: Adrian S. Robert's letter (under "Arianna's Back Alleys") in Reader Mail's Huffington Puffington and responses (under "Now You Know How Roush Feels") in Reader Mail's Judicial Activists Strike Again:

I read the comments from your faithful readers regarding comments by one Mr/Ms.(?) Adrian S. Roberts with much amusement.

After first reading the article Roberts replied to in typically liberal gibberish, I was tempted to sit down and write a letter similar to those in Reader Mail of June 27. But then I thought to myself, "Why bother? Nothing I -- or anyone far more able to express themselves cogently than I -- can say would not do anything to enlighten people such as Roberts. Liberals are called "deranged" for a reason -- they are!

Everything Messrs DeSisto, Chase, Arand, et al. say is absolutely true. Yet -- we all know without any doubt that a liberal who thinks like Roberts will dismiss it as "just more Conservative nonsense." That, after all, is how they think. Conservative is bad -- liberal is good. Period, end of story.

Gentlemen -- you waste your breath and wonderful writing skills on such as Roberts. Thoughtful analysis escapes liberals. Facts escape liberals. Their "perceived" facts trump anything a Conservative could say. Mr. DeSisto could quote statistics showing Liberals contribute less of their earnings than those nasty Conservatives all he wants -- it will not change one iota their deranged thought processes. For God's sake (am I still allowed to mention His name?), they don't even have the fortitude to refer to themselves as what they are -- LIBERALS, not "progressives." Actually -- neither fits their twisted idea of government well -- Marxist or Socialist better suits them.

My condition is similar to Ms. Teus's. I am a retired NYPD officer with a pension of $30k, and am on Social Security Disability due to injuries sustained in the line of duty. I would bet that despite my financial situation I give a higher percentage of my income to charity than does this Roberts character. The last thing I want is big government running my life and taking even more of my limited funds out of my pocket to give to people who want me to support them rather than working for an honest wage.

Well done, Gentlemen and Lady -- I never fail to be impressed by the quality of the vast majority of AmSpec's readership. I have to wonder why people such as Roberts don't spend their time on Daily Kos and HP, where others share their twisted views. Oh -- I forgot -- they probably don't have jobs to go to, hence their lives spent on blogs reviling Conservatives.
-- Bruce J. Emmott
Merrick, New York

Mr. (or Ms.) Roberts' letter must be satire written deliberately as such by one of your regular readers. No one, left or right, would in all seriousness compose a response to this article which so perfectly proves Mr. Ferrara's point about the liberal tendency toward "hysterical vituperation." It is too perfect to be real.
-- Lee Hoffman
Honolulu, Hawaii

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