Moderate Humor

Moderate Humor - I'm trying to imagine the furor if a conservative commentator were to write something like this:

Senator and authoritarian martinette Hillary Clinton (R - Hell) is in the hospital for pancreatitis brought on by a gallstone. She is expected to make a full recovery, which ruins my day. No, I'm just kidding, but if she were to die of a sudden illness...oh, I should stop teasing myself.

Get well soon, Senator Clinton. Feeling compassion for the likes of you makes my skin crawl.

So how is this piece any better?

The point - that the central message of the left is of stomach-churning, fevered hatred, and this hatred has infected even normally-rational schlemiels like Jeff Fecke.

"But the right hated Bill Clinton" will be the obvious response.

No. Not like this. There were those on the right that hated Bill Clinton because of what he and his wife did, and why they skated for it. Had he been a bit less feckless in his personal habits, and were his wife less of a closet Peron, he'd have probably been one of the Democrats that Republicans could have admired, like Truman or Kennedy.

But the left hates Bush and everything about him because:

1. He won an election that they regarded as their sinecure,
2. With that shaky mandate, he achieved a lot.
3. Most importantly, he's just not like them. He and his administration "Don't act like us".

For the left, the ends don't justify the means. Unless it's their ends.

UPDATE: Jeff has reconsidered. Very good.

Posted by Mitch at March 8, 2004 05:00 AM