When and how did conservatives become great judges of character?

[ck4829]

They smear Obama with Rezko (Although there is no connection), with "mentor" after "mentor", with Reverend Wright (I've seen what Wright has said, even the "evil black liberation theology marxist" 'remix' done by Hannity, and I have to say that I don't see anything racist (And I'm white BTW) or incorrect that has been said by Wright), whoever else, and you know they're going to say he associated with some evil Marxist thinker tomorrow, right?

But, really?

Who are conservatives to judge who people associate with?

Think about it for a second.

Remember that one guy who was guilty of fraud and lobbied for the CNMI against minimum wage laws while slavery and forced abortions were going on? Jack Abramoff, right?
Remember how Tom DeLay, Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist, members of the Republican Party, and even members of the Bush Administration treated him?
Like a friend.

Remember that mentally unstable guy who ranted about how Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? Curveball, right?
Remember how the Bush Administration treated him?
They used what he said as evidence to invade Iraq.

Remember that one dictator who killed his own people? Saddam Hussein, right?
Remember how the Reagan Administration treated him?
Supported him and helped his regime with his chemical weapons program, which became the basis of the invasion in 2003.

Remember those guys who mutilated women, killed children, doctors, nurses, teachers, and trafficked cocaine into the US? The contras, right?
Remember how the Reagan Administration treated them?
Compared them to the Founding Fathers.

Remember that one dictator who murdered dissenters, trafficked cocaine into the US and Europe, and sent people to be tortured by a pedophile Nazi? Pinochet, right?
How have conservatives, some even today, treated him?
Like an ally.

Remember those guys who threw acid in the faces of disobedient women, cut off the fingers and toes of prisoners, and hung people from light poles? The mujahideen, right?
Remember how the Reagan Administration treated them?
They called them freedom fighters.
Know what some of them are now called?
Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

If conservatives want to play the guilt-by-association game, they can play it, but they will lose. So, I suggest that if they bring up another "Look at Obama's new crazy mentor", then we turn it around and start bringing up their associations with unsavory people.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Conservatives are unseemly people

I take every opportunity to let them know their "values" suck, are destructive and anti-american. They also are ignorant motherfuckers with no concept of right and wrong; their one talent, where to find limbaugh on the radio.

[KharmaTrain]

2. They "Played The Refs"

It started in the 70's with Spiro Agnew and others who claimed the media was "librul" and added to those memes over the years. Since Carter didn't nuke Iran in 1979, he was weak...ergo all "libruls" were weak on defense. Since Democrats were inclusive of many different groups, they were painted as "elite"...and those who disagreed were obviously "librul" as well. It got to the point that the mediatypes had to prove they weren't "librul" and their perspective became frame from the right wing perspective...any moderate was then painted as a leftist radical while a "moderate" was a moderate repugnican.

For years there was no push back and then by the time Democrats began to wake up...in the late 90's, there were few places they could turn to refute the long-pressed impressions. Any attempt to fight back was considered "whining". This attitude is better known as "conventional wisdom"...and it's the "basis" for many of their careers. The day they admit they've been toadies of the right wing, the day they refute their careers.