Posted by
Edward Rourke on Saturday, October 18, 2008 3:49:50 AM
Whether we're talking about the rivelry between Hamilton and Jefferson, or the vile personal attacks Lincoln had to endure, the tactic of vicious personal attacks to destroy an opponent has had a long history. The political left turned this tactic into an artform with it's personal destruction of Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950's because he attempted to purge Communists from the Federal Government. Since then the left has tried to replicate it's success in destroying McCarthy again and again. Nixon, Reagan, Bork, Thomas, Starr, Cheney, and of course GW Bush is just a short list covering the last 30+ years of the lefts employment of this tactic. Over the past month Sarah Palin has been the current target because the left fears the way she connects with eaveryday average Americans. These attacks have been very effective in shaping public opinion about conservative politics. Though I vociferously condemn these attacks as baseless and unwarrented I do realize that in the world of politics these are the slings and arrows one must sometimes endure. After all anyone who enters the political arena does so knowing full well that at times they will be criticized.
Enter Joe the Plumber. Just an average working guy trying to carve out a living on $40,000 a year with hopes of one day achieving his dream of buying the buisness from his employer. Joe somehow managed to illicit from Obama the biggest gaffe of the entire Presidential Campaign. Barack Obama, according to the polls was way ahead. The media had all but ceeded the race to him. To them it was all over but for the formality of the election. So who is this Joe Schmo, this nobody, to come along and upset the coronation. The left collectively went to their playbook and they all came to the same conclusion. There was only one thing for them to do....destroy him. Discredit him through personal attacks. Throw him into the same meatgrinder that they would throw any conservative politician they found dangerous. So they set about to vet him out the way conservatives have been hoping the media would vet out Obama. But no matter how much they try they can't change the fact that Joe the Plumber has brought down the vail of secrecy that had been shielding Obama's true agenda. To spread the wealth around, to redistribute wealth, no matter how you say it it's still Marxism. All of Obama's talk of middle class tax cuts and creating jobs from the bottom up has been exposed as just a smoke screen. What really matters is Obama's version of what is fair, and let's face it folks capitalism isn't cutting it in Obama's view. The disturbing lesson to be learned hear is that anyone who gets in the way of Obama's utopic vision of what's fair must be destoyed. Not just politicians but everyday working guys like Joe must be smashed beneath the wheels of big government if they dare to speak out against the Messiah, Barack Obama. It has always been the way of the left to wipe out all dissent. Mark my words, one of the first things that will come up under this new Marxist world view that Obama calls "change" will be the Fairness Doctrine. With this an Obama administration will strike at the heart of talk radio to kill one of the last refuges of the free marketplace of idea's. After that, could government control over internet content be far behind? I pray the county comes to it's senses and we never have to find out.