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No Retreat, Baby, No Surrender

By on 10.2.09 @ 6:07AM

When it comes to defending Obamacare, the name-calling left assumes only it can be Boss. 

When it comes to opinions about President Obama and his agenda, there are people with whom it is impossible to reason. Conservative commentators keep making antivenin for the poisonous speculation about motivation that masquerades as analysis in militantly progressive circles, but publishing outlets like The American Spectator, American Thinker, and Pajamas Media seldom gain traction with activists who ignore history and logic to claim that the Republican Party embraces racism.

There are more reputable and charitable readings of current events, including Noemie Emery’s theory that Barack Obama and a large swath of the voting public misread each other. Even some Democrats now hope that Mr. Obama starts acting less like an actor at an audition and more like a president. Yet (true to the maxim that there is no such thing as “fighting dirty,” because there is only fighting), the left ignores its genteel representatives to complain about Sarah Palin or the so-called hate speech allegedly “spewed” by conservative radio hosts.

That verb matters, because it is not just an evocative choice that taps into widespread revulsion for sudden illness. Like the word “racist,” “spews” must be considered as the distillation of an ad hominem argument: few other words so easily associate their targets with evil, thanks to scenes imprinted on many of us by The Exorcist. To use the verb “spews” the way some progressives do is to imply that Limbaugh, Beck, Savage, Ingraham, Coulter, and other conservative talkers need an exorcist as much as actress Linda Blair did, and for what? Mostly for apostasy from the Church of Obama.

Those who retail the unsavory metaphor never stop to wonder whether spewing actual arguments might be more constructive than indulging the acidic scorn that drips from con artists who are busy redefining any opposition to Obama as hate speech. Sonja Schmidt of Pajamas TV knows all about that stealthy assault on the First Amendment. Former Republican Congressman J.C. Watts has tried to make the same point. David Kahane went both of them one better to explain why fears of a hostile environment allegedly created by vocal conservatives are likewise misplaced.

To hear some progressives talk, good ideas of any kind are repugnant to the Republican Party. People who think that way have confused arguments over means with arguments over ends, but the rest of us do not have to take such ignorance on the chin, and it is not racist to parry sloppy thought when that thought is used as a cudgel, even sometimes by friends who should know better.

Conservative pundit Jennifer Rubin has had enough. It makes no sense to rebuke “Democrat softies” for losing parliamentary gambits to “mean Republicans,” she notes, but that is a common excuse for “declining to examine whether the Democrats’ shortcomings stem from their ideological extremism.”

P.J. O’Rourke also rejects labeling by the left. O’Rourke understands the moral hazard of nurturing hatred, and has therefore decided (he says only partly in jest) to outsource whatever hate he can muster to expert haters in “al Qaeda, Russia, and Cuba.”

While name-calling from the left is nothing new, it’s most recent cause is the felt need to defend President Obama’s signature initiative, health care reform, by any means necessary. Unfortunately for progressive pundits, it is distressingly hard to tar everyone opposed to a so-called “public option” as racist, and the president himself subcontracted the heavy lifting on health reform plans to other Democrats. The number of presidential statements on health care that needs fact-checking is daunting. Nevertheless, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel explained in an essay excerpted by blogger Don Surber, President Obama is trying to turn health care on its head.

While looking at factors that influence life expectancy, Fogel pointed out that “the emphasis in America is on saving lives, not money,” whereas “in every socialist country, the opposite is true.” In various Congressional plans, keeping your doctor might require the involvement of a review board, an insurance exchange, and a rugby scrum of intermediaries looking simultaneously for cost savings and social justice.

Given the gauntlet that must be run and the controlling instincts of the Democratic caucus (at least one of whom recently caricatured the preferred Republican response to getting sick as “die quickly”), some of us sympathize with a deceased rocker’s desire to “hide in my music” and “forget the day.” Unfortunately, President Obama has been telling even the people of Honduras how to interpret their own constitution, so it’s not much of a stretch to wonder whether micromanagement is inevitable.

A word in defense of Sarah Palin would also be appropriate, given how much she continues to scare the left. President Obama mocked her opposition to “death panels.” Other progressives seem to think of her as a dangerous lightweight, because they have no problem skating blithely past the cognitive dissonance in that characterization. Yet it is worth remembering, as a contributor to American Thinker does, that while Palin campaigned for the vice presidency, “her church was torched, her body ogled and threatened, her children debased.” That this happened to an indisputably competent and experienced adult ought to give the rest of us pause. As the buzz over her forthcoming memoir proves yet again, Sarah Palin can take care of herself. But not everyone has similar resources to draw on before consulting with a doctor over potentially costly “end of life issues.”

If Palin was right to characterize review panels the way she did, what then? Shall we face the well-meaning bureaucrats serenely, consoling ourselves with thoughts of all those “sweet sounds coming down on the night shift”? Serenity is a good thing. But there would be more of it if the American left recognized legitimacy in questions about why Democrats administer lumps to Big Pharma but not to Big Law and why Congress exempts itself from plans foisted on its constituents. To ask about that is not racist or obstructionist; it is responsible. And as a progressive icon put it from behind a piano keyboard, “we all must do the best we can to hang onto that gospel plow.”

About the Author

Patrick O’Hannigan is a writer in North Carolina.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (78) |

Appleby| 10.2.09 @ 7:33AM

Anyone who has ever reared children recognizes the pattern -- screaming *I HATE YOU!* is the last refuge of a child who knows she has lost the argument because the adults are talking sense and the discussion is over.

This is what happens when the adults leave the world to TheKids.

The only consolation to this public display of Toddler Liberation is that when we finally send these brats to their rooms, the Sixties will at last be OVER. Nobody will ever want to dig up this corpse again.

R Martin| 10.2.09 @ 8:56AM

I'm not sure that when the 60's brats are sent to their rooms it will be over, certainly not over in caps. The problem is that the current crop of youngsters (perhaps brats in caps) is even wackier than their ancestors with no accurate sense of history, having been indoctrinated for so long by leftist teachers and professors.

Big Leo| 10.2.09 @ 5:19PM

Actually, RM, a lot of the sixties brats have never left their room. They're still living with their parents, emotionally if not literally.

Roy| 10.3.09 @ 5:15PM

Sadly, I pretty much agree.

Summer| 10.3.09 @ 9:35PM

It's LIBERAL BRATS, and they know no age.

martin j smith| 10.2.09 @ 8:11AM

The issue is not the facts of an argument it is "the big lie". Or, repeat something over and over again and it becomes "truth". What is the antidote ? Civil but aggressive political activism which means in practice: rallies,demonstrations,press conferences by senators or congressman outside and in front of government buildings with large charts with salient points. For example: ifJoe Wilson behaved so badly what about this Grayson guy ? So in the end confront the hypocrisy and the lies. Confront withe name calling with fact based messages.

Louis Jenkins| 10.2.09 @ 9:23AM

The Left has spewed its lies and defamation for ages, yet when the Right begins to fight fire with fire they scream foul. Should they not clean their own house before pointing to the squalor that the Right is accused of living in? Case in point: David Letterman stated that Palin a was 'slut' (or at least dressed like one) on his show awhile back, yet last night he admitted to the world that he was a whore monger. Be sure, the truth will find you out! These people choke on a gnat and swallow a camel.

And Conservatives are called every negative term in the English language?

RDN in Houston| 10.3.09 @ 12:18PM

Well said.

Summer| 10.3.09 @ 9:38PM

I thought I smelled a pervert when Letterman went after Willow Palin; and so did Sarah. We were both right, what a nasty piece of human excrement ol' Dave is. Yuck.

martin j smith| 10.2.09 @ 9:50AM

What is needed is a political"war room" with the ability to respond and attack on a moments notice to any statement made by the left that is in need of response. What is also necessary is the opposite of the "big lie"--"the big truth" repeatedly asking salient questions of the left to asnswer such as : What exactly is Obama care ?

JJackson| 10.29.09 @ 6:58PM

You guys have a political war room, its called fox news

Indiana Alex| 10.2.09 @ 10:52AM

The main problem with any attempt to combat the liberal line of the day is that while it may be a challenge to refute debatable points, it is very difficult to combat nonsense.

The left will simply yell out "Haliburton", declare that there is no longer any debate, pull out the straw man, or call conservatives "racist".

Son Of Sam | 10.2.09 @ 11:06AM

who cares what the ObamaNazis say about any of us patriots? I stopped caring what America hating traitors think about me when I was still in middle school. Instead of reacting to what they say, we should be doing everything in our power to make sure that these traitors, tax cheats and lunatics end up in the ground, in prison or in exile.

There's only one proper response to a snake out to kill you and your children: smash them with a hammer

stand strong until freedom dawns
Son Of Sam
http://www.samadamssos.bravehost.com/

WR Jonas| 10.2.09 @ 11:26AM

I never realized how difficult things will be for this nation.
I have had an opportunity to move around different parts of the country and I am overwhelmed by the number of people who simply do not understand what" freedom" is. The people who populate this country are largely ignorant or disinterested in what is about to happen . It is akin to watching a giant tsunami wave approaching in slow motion and most of the people walking on the beach are oblivious to the great destruction rolling toward them from the left.
Those who think and insist that we can defeat or thwart the gathering flood are mistaken.
We have wallowed and accommodated socialist poison in our culture and thought so long we are devoid of the usual warning instincts which can save us.
An example is required here so allow me to illustrate .
While channel surfing recently I watched the PBS production " The National Parks , Americas Best Idea" . It was well done and portrayed the beautiful expanses in our glorious natural treasures. Yet, something troubled me and I could not identify it at first, then slowly it dawned on me.
Our clever leftist friends had painted this marvelous example of the magnificent achievement that our GOVERNMENT has created. With the tireless effort of dedicated people . dictatorial control and massive infusions of public and private financial support the dream is achieved . And how wonderful it is.
I give the glory to God, it is his creation . It is not the work of do gooders or dreamy eyed pantheists that is being preserved. But the message has been broadcast , over and over and the video will continue for a long time on PBS.
There is no defense or alternative argument to thwart this kind of persuasion .
It probably never occurs to the millions of viewers watching the publicly aired production that the title is a "big lie".
Americas BEST IDEA is the implementation of freedom. Not a government run park system.

That this kind of subtle and pervasive influence has been thriving in our national consciousness for decades is the testament that a few policy tweaks or a couple of legislative adjustments will not correct the problem.
Socialism like sin is so deeply embedded in our society we cannot recognize or admit its existence. There is only thing that can stop this and most Americans are too busy to realize their impending doom.

Ken (Old Texican)| 10.2.09 @ 11:28AM

Please forgive the partial copy/paste here from another thread.

Progressives
I won't argue with you. Evidently you have endless hours to throw ..... in the punch-bowl.
Ladies and gentlemen,

They diastrously wrong! The tell-tale term in all their rants is that little perjorative term, "profits".

With that single term, they dismisss any free market solutions to ...well anything truly important. That is the communist trick on reality.

I could offer you all so many examples of the efficiencies of free market solutions over gubmint's big flatt feet and bored bureaucrats...heh I could bore even Bob to death.

But then he would argue every one of them down with that communist perspective of his...that perspective even has a name folks: "Progressive dialectic".
In that mind-set one can argue using half truths, revealed truths, new truths, throw away truths, etc. to win the argument, or at least muddy the argument until rational people get bored.

Please remember that term: "Progressive Dialectic"
In my opinion, Bob is not a TROLL, but rather a skilled "progressive" operative.

Simply skim over his rants, and if you want to respond to him, simply type in ""Progressive Dialectic".
You know, in a sad skewed way, Bob is right, but his play-pretend logic turns right around and bites him in the rear.
See, IF our Senior citizens had not been stuck in Medicare those years ago...If they instead had been given a simple cash subsidy and their own chosen insurance company plan, the costs offerred by several "Actuaries" of major companies indicate that the overall, "profitable", costs of medical care for seniors would have been about 40% of the costs of government administered "Medicare" to date.

So now the seniors are trapped...and Bob wants all of us to be trapped as well. Neat trick huh?

In the song that opens "CSI Miami" "Don't be fooled again...".

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Michael L. Hauschild| 10.3.09 @ 10:02AM

Ken (Middle-aged Texan)
I am not sure, but I suspect that you are also a product of the "60's" (as am I). I will not speak for you but anyone that tries to "send me to my room" would rethink that act the second time around.
It is often ignored, but many of us from that era were raised by nuclear families who came from the depression era of the 30's. My father was disabled in the Battle of the Bulge and my mother was a "Rosie the Riveter" type building B-26's and B-29's at the Martin Bomber Plant.
Generalizations are counter productive and I resent it when anyone would suggest I am a "peacenik" simply because I was born in 1947.
I can't fathom how anyone could prove it but I seriously doubt that any particular "generation" produces more or less of any particular characteristic by chronology. It just so happened that the "hippies" were manifested due to the fact that they were the most "photogenic" as all young people of any era are.

Ken (Old Texican)| 10.3.09 @ 12:34PM

Michael
Whoah pardner! T'was not me that suggested you go to your room. In fact, I always appreciate your posts.
Similar background for me. My dad died from asbestosis, welding Liberty ships together. You got me mixed up with Appleby, but I am sure he was not referring to you and I.
Best regards

Michael L. Hauschild| 10.3.09 @ 1:21PM

Ken,
I replied to you because of all here you would possibly be the most resentful (heh, heh) of someone suggesting you "go to your room" simply because your were "of a certain age."

Ken (Old Texican)| 10.3.09 @ 1:42PM

Ha! My reply would be to draw...and then tell them to make me.
We old farts don't fist fight we just .......'em.

We do like to give them one chance to repent, but they are always to stupid to do so it seems.

Daisy| 10.3.09 @ 9:53PM

Ken, I think Appleby is a woman.

Appleby| 10.4.09 @ 8:27AM

Yes, I am a woman (born 1948) and of the same cohort as you folks who take exception to being sent to your rooms -- I was in fact referring to the ones Acting Out in the so-called government at present. As we all know who were struggling to get an education and make our way in the world while these toddlers captured the adulation and worship of the MSM back in the day, only about 5% of our generation were Hippie Scum with wealthy parents to assist them in prolonging their childhood. These Emblems of the Sixties (or Icons if you want a really stale word) are the ones I advocate the rest of us sending to their rooms.

I hope that is clear enough for you gentlemen?

Daisy| 10.3.09 @ 9:50PM

Man, I don't know what hippies you were looking at, but 'photogenic' is not a word I'd use to describe them. Smelly, hairy and unbathed; the men turned me off! The women were hardly better--skanky as I recall.

Perhaps your memory is just softening the reality of that time or maybe you were partaking of a certain 'weed' that gave you giant 'beer goggles'.

All I know is I wouldn't let those gross hippy beasts touch me with a ten foot pole--no pun intended--and I still thank God I possessed that much wisdom so young.

Michael L. Hauschild| 10.4.09 @ 8:54AM

Daisy,
My first wife was a “hippy” to say she was “stunning” and “clean" would be an understatement. In the four years I was with her she went from a drug abuser to a “medical records technician” (I think that is a file clerk) with a very respectable responsible position in the work force. She was a military “brat,” and wanted to join the service. We parted because she enlisted; she had a full career in the military and currently works in a government agency. She did remarry and bore several children who are doing well, one just returned from Iraq. She never relapsed into drug use.
Hippies are like anyone else, just confused. We see each other once in a while at the grocery store and I often wonder what would have happened to her had I not taken the labor of love to wean her off of drugs. Many of our friends during that period are in prison or dead.

Free| 10.4.09 @ 5:04PM

Just how many Wives have you had there, Mr. Hauschild? Hmm?

Michael L. Hauschild| 10.4.09 @ 5:52PM

2

Daisy| 10.4.09 @ 5:33PM

I wouldn't let the hippies I saw at Stanford touch me, let alone the shaggy beasts I saw roaming the streets of San Francisco. Shudder.

But, to each his own; if you thought hippy chicks were all that and all you needed to float your boat, then I'm happy for you.

I was into 6'5", clean shaven and well developed football players. ;p

WR Jonas | 10.2.09 @ 11:33AM

I wish to make a correction in my previous post . Amend the very last sentence to read" There is only one thing that can stop this..."

Dean from Ohio| 10.2.09 @ 1:26PM

"Conservative commentators keep making antivenin for the poisonous speculation about motivation that masquerades as analysis in militantly progressive circles, but publishing outlets like The American Spectator, American Thinker, and Pajamas Media seldom gain traction with activists who ignore history and logic to claim that the Republican Party embraces racism."

Wow--what does this sentence mean? This whole piece makes for needlessly hard reading. Some editing please!

Michael L. Hauschild| 10.3.09 @ 10:06AM

It means (as I read it) that we are wasting our time trying to reason with idiots.

A. Brooks| 10.2.09 @ 1:47PM

lets hope the GOP dosn't give us another futurist as Speaker next year:
http://www.hpluscommunity.com/.....aft-for-10

AZ Bill| 10.2.09 @ 5:31PM

Perhaps there is an answer, just allow any Senior condemned by the medical reform bill to take one politician who voted for the package with him for company!

lynnrockets | 10.2.09 @ 8:06PM

I haven't stopped by in awhile. How is this one?

I WRITE THE SONGS
(sung to the Barry Manilow song “I Write The Songs”)

I sling the jive whenever,
I sit down and scribble a song
I put the words and Republicans together
I love music,
And I love these songs

I write the songs that I hope you folks sing
I write the songs to dethrone G.O.P. kings
I write the songs that expose all their lies
I write the songs, I write the songs

I’m from a state that’s deep blue,
And we make a damned good lobster roll
No, there aren’t many right wing guys
There’s some but then, all of them are very old

I write the songs that attack the right wing
I write the songs that I hope linger and sting
I write the songs that prompt Glenn Beck to cry
I write the songs, I write the songs

Oh, I’ll take a hostile stance
When Limbaugh begins to rave and rant
And I’ll lead you to a poll, he can’t disprove
Palin has no heart,
So, I will tear her life apart
Hannity, Coulter too,
Also, too, O’Reilly
None of them can hide from me !!!

I write the songs about Mark Sanford’s flings
I write the songs about Larry Craig’s stings
I write the songs about Mark Foley’s guys
I write the songs, I write the songs

I write the songs about Joe Wilson’s slings
I write the songs of Vitter’s diapery things
I write the songs about all of those guys
I write the songs, I write the songs

I love music, so I write these songs

lynnrockets.com

Summer| 10.3.09 @ 10:04PM

Hey, Sprockets--did ya hear that Palin's book is already #1 on NYT Best Seller List and Amazon, and it won't even be released for another six weeks? Palin's success is unprecedented. Ain't that great? I'm sure you've already pre-ordered several copies to give to your friends and family (you probably don't have any friends).

Anyhoo, looks like Palin's got a real shot at 2012, especially considering loser Obama is tanking in the polls, can't pass his garbage ObamaCare and failed miserably in his Chicago Olympics mission. The IOC is racist! Yeah, I know.

President Palin--gotta love it!

SorryWrongNumber| 10.4.09 @ 5:06PM

I'd keep the day job. If you have one.

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Yosemeti Sam| 10.3.09 @ 11:44AM

LOL.

Into the maw of conservatism - they, the stooge
liberals march.

Richard Baker| 10.3.09 @ 6:55PM

Seeing my generation act as it has and does, it will be a boon to the US when the Baby Boomers are dead and gone. Then finally, the most whiny and self-indulgent group in US history will be no longer able to destroy the country. Hope the kids can fix the mess that's left.

Lynne| 10.3.09 @ 10:09PM

Speak for yourself, Richard; I know many baby boomers who are good, decent and patriotic Americans who have done a great deal of good for our country.

Bitter assholes like you, though, can go ahead and die soon--please.

Lynne| 10.3.09 @ 10:10PM

I take that back; you're already dead, you just don't know it.

Michael L. Hauschild| 10.4.09 @ 10:03AM

Lynne,
It is obvious that Richard has some good days and also some bad days. I always read his posts, most are good. His is though somewhat confused about what generation is destroying the country. If I am not mistaken the average age of the current administration is much younger than the "love children" he accuses us of being. I suppose we should bear some of the responsibility due to the PC mandate of the last election but in reality it will be us; you, me, and my personal favorite Ken (The middle-aged pistolerro) who will have to straighten this mess our. The ironic part of this is we will fight fire with fire and give them a dose of their own temporal displacement; I will not speak for you but Palin is young enough to be my daughter.

Lynne| 10.4.09 @ 12:32PM

Michael, sloppy thinking irritates me (today must be one of my 'bad' days). Liberalism is responsible for most of the problems of today and it's not generational, it's a mental illness--and people OF ALL AGES suffer from its ravages.

I just know and love too many great people in their fifties and sixties to write them off, it's absurd.

I also knew too many good American boys who went to Vietnam and never came back--I will always remember them and I will always defend them.

Sorry for my intemperance, but I'll never be sorry that I had the privilege to know many good boomers.

The bad outweigh the good| 10.4.09 @ 4:58PM

Richard has a point.

Wait| 10.4.09 @ 5:08PM

Don't you mean the good outweigh the bad here? I mean if you're trying to help the guy out, get it right.

Summer| 10.4.09 @ 5:37PM

Only a loser believes the bad outweigh the good.

Good ALWAYS triumphs over evil.

Actually Richard| 10.4.09 @ 7:14PM

Actually, Richard, if you were to ask me, but of course you're not, so I'm going to volunteer it.. I think the children of the baby boomers are even worse. These are the generation that are being taught in schools that to be a Lesbian or "gay" is perfectly fine, God is something made up by Right-Wing Wacko's, be sure not to "offend" anyone's Religion, unless of course they are Christian, 1+1=3.. or 4 or whatever you wish it to be. Must I go on? My goodness, my own Brother & his family have given me the boot because they know I'm a Christian and don't want me around their young children.. I kid you not. It is because they have lesbian freinds (the Mom) and a homosexual brother. I have never said a word to any of them about any of it, but they want to make sure the truth is not seen to their children. My point is this generation is FAR worse. Just wait till their little ones grow up. By that time it will be a completely Godless society. (We are heading there mighty fast). Sodom & Gommorah revisited. What can I say? It's sad.

Summer| 10.4.09 @ 10:57PM

Two Richards, both in despair; I'll pray for you.

Self-indulgence destroys.

Richard Baker| 10.4.09 @ 6:49PM

Lynne:
Sorry the truth offends. You must be a liberal. Only liberals start cursing as a substitute for reason and thought. Poor baby.

Lynne| 10.4.09 @ 7:43PM

Yes, the truth hurts: Calling someone a liberal for speaking the truth is just too easy, the last refuge of a bitter old man. Not all of us have given up hope like you.

You need God's help 'cause you're way beyond mine.

Actually Richard| 10.4.09 @ 10:29PM

Lynne is a very nasty girl. Calm down Lynne. What's wrong with you?

Kathleen| 10.4.09 @ 10:50PM

Lynne's words are unkind, but I think she's just scared and I also believe she's got a point. If we all roll over and give up who will save our country? Are we so weak that we'll just give up and allow socialists/Marxists to take over?

If we don't stand up and fight back, all of us Americans, regardless of generation, deserve to be labeled cowards.

The foul language was unnecessary, though.

bobmontgomery| 10.4.09 @ 9:11PM

If you do not stand for something you will fall for anything. When you accept the left wing premises - tthat there really is global warming, that we really do need some kind of a stimulus bill, that health care regulation is of utmost importance, that somebody is qualified to judge what is a "hate crime", that homosexuals must be catered to, that the public schools are part of "the government", et cetera - and sit there and argue that you have a "better plan" for accommodating these issues, you are nothing but a useful idiot in the great "two-party" system.

Appleby| 10.5.09 @ 7:20AM

Its the old Be Careful What You Wish For riff, isnt it? Its a shame that nobody ever learns from the experience of others; like Bullwinkle endlessly trying to pull a rabbit out of his hat, the fact that that trick never works never even slows them down.

However, once TheKids figure out that they are in fact going to be forced at gunpoint to pay large sums of money to support this Utopia Cornucopia and it doesnt matter a particle that they Cant Afford It or whether or not its Fair, I think the tantrums will eclipse anything we saw in the Sixties.

NO WAY! WE WONT PAY! they will chant.

P.S. At a recent Hippie Day held at a local public school, half the pre-printed signs waved by the nostalgic hippie children had been printed not with the Peace Symbol but with the logo of Mercedes Benz. Not only funny but weirdly appropriate, I thought.

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