A Mean Spirit
Posted by Mark Noonan
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Paul Wellstone dies, and they turn his funeral into a political rally. President Bush attends Corretta Scott King's funeral, and he's insulted by other speakers. American troops make a mistake, and they call it a war crime; the enemy cuts a captive's head off, and they hardly even mention it. President Bush works hand and glove with liberals - to the dismay of his conservative supporters - on campaing finance reform, education reform and Medicare reform, and they still say President Bush is poisoning the partsan atmosphere. Prime Minister Allawi is denigrated as a Bush puppet; Prime Minister Maliki is denigrated for not being a Bush puppet. The Administration points out that a critic is lying, they demand the President be impeached over it. We want to give water to a dying women, they demand she die of thirst.
There is, in our leftwing critics, a mean streak a mile wide - a shrieking, unreasoning, pigheaded meaness which prevents meaningful debate most of the time. In posts where I have honored my late uncle and Matt has asked for prayers for his girlfriend, lefties attempted to post nasty insults - and not just to me and Matt, but to those we are writing about.
I know, I know - some of our conservatives can also get a bit nasty - but never, in my experience, has the right ever had such a large number of relentlessly mean people as the left has today. This meaness is a double-edged sword. While it usefully makes it very easy to defeat the left at election time, it becomes an ongoing burden for those of us who have to put up with the meaness day in and day out - but put up with it we must, lest we all get driven off the stage just out of weariness with answering, for the 100th time, some silly, transparantly false but exceptionally hateful lie that a leftist has thrown about.
Still, it is to be hoped that those who come here to hate and pour out invective will find a cure and become reasonable - or go away until such time as they are willing to think about what they want to say.
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