"Liberals hide their views until they get power " Ridiculous freeper rant

[MissMarple]

This guy sounds like a limbodot. There is another just above it that is even worse. It compiles all the lies in the Plame case and presents them a "troof to tell". With members like these the Colorado Republican Party doesn't need any enemies.

These guys give humanity a bad name, not to mention any sane Republicans that may be left in Colorado.

"What arrant nonsense Joel Klein spouted about truly thoughtful people abandoning their preconceived ideologies when placed in positions of ultimate authority (“Perhaps justices see the light after appointment,” Letters, July 26). Justices such as David Souter or Sandra Day O’Connor don’t suddenly grow into their roles and become better people; they awaken to the fact that, at long last, they can impose their will on other people, making them both very bad judges and typical liberals.

Liberals like to portray themselves as altruists, caring for the poor and disadvantaged who would be left to their own devices by cruel, heartless conservatives. In truth, liberalism is a philosophy of the hedonist. The majority of liberals don’t do things to help the poor and disadvantaged; they do things so they will feel better about themselves at little or no personal cost. In fact, they get a quadruple thrill out of it: they feel good about themselves for having done something, regardless of the consequences, which are often disastrous; they feel better about themselves because it hasn’t cost a dime of their own, the typical liberal gesture almost always being at public expense; they feel better about themselves because it hasn’t inconvenienced them, liberal gestures almost always requiring someone else’s time and effort; they feel really good about themselves because they’ve managed to reach into the pocket and compel the time and energy of greedy, selfish conservatives.

Most often, they do this by judicial fiat.

It is not the job of judges to ensure fairness or equality, nor is their job to correct the wrongs of society. Those things are the province of the people themselves, usually through the offices of their elected representatives. The job of any judge is to apply the law. That’s all they’re meant to do and that’s why justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg or David Souter are terrible examples, because they can’t separate law from their personal prejudices."

http://gazette.com/display.php?id=1309331&secid=13

[Bluebear]

1. Pot, meet Saint Kettle n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Seriously. All pols run to the middle then govern from their true

ideological stand. Or at least try to.

[skids]

3. Basic Freudian projection.

http://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.cfm?term=Projection

"Projection: Projection is one of the defense mechanisms identified by Freud and still acknowledged today. According to Freud, projection is when someone is threatened by or afraid of their own impulses so they attribute these impulses to someone else. For example, a person in psychoanalysis may insist to the therapist that he knows the therapist wants to rape some women, when in fact the client has these awful feelings to rape the woman."

[Kipling]

4. I do a month of volunteer work a year.

I've been to Bolivia and lived in a shack. I've worked 9-5 through the summer for cancer. I did NOT appreciate this comment:

"The majority of liberals don’t do things to help the poor and disadvantaged; they do things so they will feel better about themselves at little or no personal cost"

Toss-off. The majority of conservatives don't do things to help the poor and disadvantaged. Full stop. Does this daft bastard honestly think that the majority of, say, social workers or charity volunteers are hard core free-marketeering flag-wavers?

[getmeouttahere]

5. I'm lovin' ya, Kipling!

I do want to feel better about myself, and one way to do that is to actually DO things for others! If I don't, I frankly don't feel to good about myself. Either way, there is always at least some personal cost. But I AM doing something!

[MissMarple]

6. You are exactly the kind of person I thought of when I read his drivel.

Good for you! There are so many peace loving, gentle people who do so much for others and for no personal gain and often with personal sacrifice.

[Clark2008]

15. And, have you ever noticed that, by and large, it's the lower middle

class who helps the poor the most?

They understand. They care. Rich people donate money, in general, but it's us lower middle class folks who do the work.

I don't mind it - I love it. I love making a difference. And I'm sure you do, too. It's just an observation I've made.

[displacedtexan]

7. Don't you just love the folks from Planet Oh Right Sure?

I suppose all of the millions who've marched and died for civil rights causes and justice-- and who've taken vows of poverty to teach, counsel or represent those less fortunate-- have been wearing invisibility cloaks.

Freeptards.

[MissMarple]

8. Where is a wand in good working order when you really need it?

It must be under the invisibility cloak. :)

[Trish1168]

9. The psychological term is....PROJECTION!!

I've noticed that projection is common among republicans.

Projection = accuse others of things your guilty of = hypocrisy

[Lindacooks]

13. Exactly my thought.

And the truth.

[Cha]

10. Filthy lies..but

bush broke all his campaign promises..so it must be attack the opposition for what you are Guilty of.

[MissMarple]

11. Such massive denial is so....sick.

They don't get to have their own facts and still live long in reality. "Lost Horizons" depicted that quite clearly.

:banghead: That's not my head, it's the dork's. :evilgrin:

[LoZoccolo]

12. Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition prescribed doing that sort of thing.

It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings.

and

It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.

Los Angeles Times, March 1992


I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night.

A few months later in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

[rockymountaindem]

14. Yeah, I read that in the Gazette today.

I thought to myself that Mr. Klein wrote such an interesting and thought provoking letter... too bad he doesn't get to have the last word on this diatribe.