critter1982: In my own decision making I decided to find out what the popular conservative views are. I read many right-sided blogs and posted questions about items I’d read.
Often, I’d get an email from the blog owner saying that since I didn’t share the point of view, my post would not be permitted. Usually, my post would simply not show up. When I finally got to a blog that permitted me to post questions, the blog evaporated “no longer exists” after I tried to post my 8th or 9th comment. Finally I was able to get some dialogue going, but my questions were usually answered with links to specific pages. One example was intended to prove the link between ACORN/Obama in a concerted plan to enroll fraudulent voters.
In following the link, I found that the rising star of print is Michelle Malkin. Her articles and blog posts are not only based on inflammatory, prejudical rhetoric and not on arguing issues. The specific link to which I was directed was headlined “lazy crackheads”/inmates/can’t recall the third”. There was actually no thesis in her article which had very few words and a couple of evidentiary documents.
The firs piece of “evidence” was a link titled Mobsters which opened a page showing a group of African Americans. No attempt to explain the use of the word “mobsters”
Every other piece of evidence she presented as “evidence” of a non-thesis showed that ACORN-LV not only acted above-board in their registration efforts (they had standards for employees, they reviewed all applications, separated known fraudulent/suspect forms along with the name(s) of the canvassers, they fired those who continued to underperform and/or continue to submit fraudulent forms after 1 warning, they sent the first batch of fraudulent/suspect forms to LV election officials in Nov 2007-stating they would cooperate with officials in any investigation. The officials did nothing with the information until July of 2008 when they requested a 2nd copy (either they lost the 1st or didn’t have access to a copy machine). Officials then staged a raid on ACORN-LV offices (when all they needed to do was pick up the phone.
So where is the logic in the above that links Obama to ACORN in a conspiracy?
I posted my findings and nobody commented, they simply raised another issue and posted links to prove their point.
The last exchange I had was in response to Obama the socialist. I pointed out every aspect of US society that was already socialized including: National Parks and public forest and rangelands, FDA, Transportation Safety, Interstate highways, public facilities (Library of Congress, ....) down to state, county, and municipal roads, garbage…
The list was quite long and each item was identified as to how it was socialized and that this was unfair to many people.
The response I got was “You have some really good and really bad ideas there” No discussion, just a vague grade.
Most of the right wing has tossed out conservative commenters like George Will, David Brooks, Christopher Buckley and categorizes them as “intellectuals”. While I don’t often agree with the conclusions of Will et al, I can at least appreciate their point of view because it is founded on a conservative premise and is explained in a logical way.
Michelle Malkins article in National Review on why illegal immigrants are responsible for the current financial disaster is only made more absurd by her refusal to accept and integrate the facts that almost everyone on all political sides agrees on.
What is the logic behind McCains choice of Palin as someone who can deal with Oil?
What she did in Alaska (raise the royalty rates on oil producers which flowed directly to the taxpayer and resulted in abolishing state income tax) is totally contrary to McCain’s belief that the taxpayer should give big oil lots of money to drill on public property.
I’m sure you can logically explain your support for McCain.
The most vocal right wing supporters choose to use other means.
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