Victim of Love

Check today’s comments at the Northern Valley Beacon for one of the more incredible posting I have come across. Actually some of David’s notions are quite fascinating. They are filled with some amazing assertions and incredible conclusions.

Of course I am happy to oblige for those looking for an abridged version:

“Republicans appear content to let people live their own lives as long as they live them like the Republicans do. But they reserve the right to blackball people.” – Well, at least we reserved the right to blackball people. That shows we were at least polite about it. My mother would have been pleased. Come to think of it though, I have never been invited to the blackball meetings. Oh great, I suppose this means I have been blackballed?!?

“Many Democrats think the war on Iraq is the moral lowpoint in the history of our country. They thought that the 2004 election campaign should have confronted the moral issue of this war--win or lose the election. The moral point lost its edge when people feared being labeled unpatriotic, soft on terror, and even treasonous.” – It’s the pits when you lose your ‘moral edge.’ To get a new moral edge you have do another poll, run a bunch of focus groups, and try to figure out which way the political wind is blowing,,.all that work just to get another ‘moral edge.’ It just isn’t fair that you can’t have a moral position that won’t keep its ‘edge’. You have to change your ‘moral edge’ all the time. It's such a hassle. They just don’t make ‘moral edges’ like they used too.

“The salient record of the war on Iraq is not one of removing weapons of mass destruction, of subduing Al Qaeda, of implanting democracy, or of rebuilding an infrastructure that supports the people. It is a record of fabrications and bungles, war-profiteering, prisoner maltreatment, lives sacrificed to political expedients, and a betrayal of the trust of the American people.”- I guess that is what it all boils down too, doesn’t it? We are just a bunch of fabricating, bungling, profiteering, maltreating, life sacrificing, betraying sons-of-britches. And just when I thought no one would catch on. Darn. I suppose this means we need to go out and get a new ‘moral edge’? Oh rats. I HATE having to get a new 'moral edge.'

And then my personal favorite, already commented on by the fastest Republican in bloggerdom: PP at SDWC,

“Winning elections are not the issue. Keeping the world's last best hope alive is the task. And the regime in power is killing it.”-You might want to get that looked at. I mean, that could be a sign of something serious and you don’t want it to fool around with thoughts like this. It could poison how you view everything else and then where would you be? Being suspicious of everyone, always wondering about their motives, trusting only yourself and your cat…well, yourself anyway. (I know you have always felt you had to be careful about what you did or said around that cat.)

Losing elections is tough. Learning that most people don’t agree with your position is difficult. Not being able to convince more people to your point of view is hard. However, this is not adequate justification for claiming that the electorate was, and continues to be, misled. That implies the electorate is stupid, which is wrong. It only enourages more contempt for an already besmirched political system.

No one ought to stand by while anyone is victimized, yet no one ought to tolerate the perpetual victim. David, tell us more about what you want to do and less about what you don’t like.