The No Kool Aid Zone

The Loud, Loony, Livid Left

Posted by Byron April 15, 2006 at 11:47 am
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Hugh Hewitt is writing a new book entitled “Painting the Map Red”, and in a post regarding one of his chapters, he references this Washington Post article on the vitriol being spewed by the loud, loony, livid left (which, by the way, does not describe all of those with left-wing tendencies—but does seem to characterize a growing number of them, a “fringe element” that is rapidly becoming mainstream):

The Left, Online and Outraged

The article goes on to focus on one Maryscott O’Connor, a 37-year-old lady insane with rage who writes a blog known as “My Left Wing” (I’ll not do her the honor of linking to it), and which describes her “very first rant, which concluded with a wish that Bush, “after contracting incurable cancer and suffering for protracted periods of time without benefit of medication,” go to hell.” Yeah, there’s that liberal compassion that makes us love ‘em so much, right?

There is reasoned debate, and there is sheer vitriol. One can make a strong argument against the policies/ideas/deeds of a given person without resorting to hatred. For the record, with few exceptions, I vigorously opposed the Clinton administration, chiefly because of the person who headed it up, a man whom I consider to have great talents but whose character flaws doomed him to failure. I likewise will do all that I can (feeble though it will be) to ensure that his “better half” never occupies the Oval Office. But what do I wish for the Clintons? Long life. Plenty of grandchildren. Well-being. Peace with God. All of those things and more; in fact, just about the only thing that I wish for them other than what they and most people wish for themselves is that they’d just go away.

And I’ll thank the Maryscott O’Connors of the world for their bellicose bellowing, which demonstrates to all who are listening the natural end of unmitigated hatred.