Ah, the mendacity!
It’s fascinating, in a depressing sort of way, to see the speed, depth, and breadth of the “Republicans lie!” meme spread through the MSM and left side of the blogosphere, and then be parroted back by simpatico commenters.
There is no question it is coordinated and Orwellian, and perhaps effective. I have no idea whether it convinces the not-yet-quite-convinced, but it certainly has been good at rallying the foot-soldiers in the Cause. Just as it became clear within days (or perhaps hours) of her nomination that Palin Is a Stupidhead, now it has been proven that Ryan Is a Lying Liar (as we already knew about Romney the Liar), and that All Republicans Are Uncaring Lying Bastards.
It’s a waste of time for me to laboriously describe and analyze the details of the lies perpetrated by the left about Republicans lying. The truth will never reach those who need to see it, and besides many people (including me) have done it already (here’s a previous post of mine that contains some handy links to others who have more patience and fortitude on the subject than I, and here’s a piece in which I liken the current lies on the left to the Big Lie technique; here’s my dissection of an earlier case of lying about lies).
Suffice to say that the left’s practice of lying about lying has spun out of control (here’s a piece on that subject), which means that on some level the Democrats must have been quite frightened by the spectacle presented at the Republican Convention, because their big defense seems to be to say it’s all an illusion based on mendacity.
Maureen Dowd’s latest column reaches an absolute frenzy in this regard, a Two Minutes Hate worthy of the best propagandists of yore. And to judge from the comments section (at least the first few that I read) to her article, her readers are happy to agree with her.
Even the title of Dowd’s screed is a masterpiece of the genre: “Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball.”
The Republican Convention according to Dowd:
A preview of the Democratic one:
Has Dowd only recently gone mad?
Or was she always that way?
I can read about a paragraph of her tantrums before I conclude that I’m better off not reading her.
What else can the left do but reiterate the “Republicans lie!” meme? They can’t run on Obama’s record. They can’t explain their lack of productive legislation during the first two years of Obama’s Presidency.
ALL they can do is attack the motivations of conservatives. Since they can’t win on the ground of reason and logic, they must either concede the argument or demonize ‘the other’.
Which leads to the appropriateness of the religious images neo choose. Reason and logic actually place the left on the demonic side (as it violates free will in denying individual liberty and in trying to control others for their own good) and I think it obvious that the irony is lost on them. Denial through ‘Projection’ is a psychological defense mechanism in massive use by the liberal left.
Nor do most conservatives place themselves on the side of angels. Acceptance of the ‘fallen aspect’ of human nature is common on the right. It is perhaps in allegiance to the Constitution’s legal boundaries wherein we most differ from our brothers and sisters.
That ‘religious passion for the cause’ will lead to democrats resisting any Republican legislation, the MSM will demonize a Romney administration and the race card will be in full play from the first day of Romney’s Presidency.
If elected, I think it likely that there will be an assassination attempt on both Romney and Ryan. The left is going to go crazy if the ‘messiah’ loses. The animosity evident when Gore lost in 2000 will pale by comparison.
I think most thinking Americans (aka non lefties) understand all too well the media’s BS and lies at this point. No one gives a crap when the Janesville, WI, plant closed. Obama said he’d make the economy better. It’s much worse. And that’s the point that people are taking away.
Obama turned out 10x worse than the media made Palin out to be. Americans who were truly against the wars, not just opportunistic lefties, saw the media dropped all anti-war pretense as soon as their guy got in office.
Even Los Angeles modern rock stations were calling Eastwood cool (during their in-between song promos) over the weekend: We at XXX FM were hanging out with empty chairs before Dirty Harry made it cool.
No one’s buying the media’s bunk. In fact, not that many even bought it last time around,and just enough did to push Obama over the edge. 52-47 is still pretty close when the media stays on one side you got Senile Idiot/Younger Idiot vs. God/some guy we don’t discuss.
What a quirky surprise to see Hieronomyous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. Thank you neo.
An observation: The dank dark Repubican campaign (visual) metaphor and the Eden-esque Democratic campaign both come from the same painting. Does it mean that regardless of appearance both parties are joined at the hip? I know many who would agree with that thought.
Correction? Is that Hell from a Breughel?
Worry not, N-Neocon. ALL they’ve got is lies and dirt tossing at the cleanest, most untouchable candidates ever. It ain’t gonna fly. They are punks and moral cowards and they will lose, I believe, far larger than even our optimists imagine. Rush keeps saying what the Dems are hole-in-the-sanding: The polls are not giving accurate readings. The good ones are done honorably, but the folks being questioned are being guarded, careful and don’t want to be sneered at as waaacists..! But, at the ballot box…By-By Bammo!!
“ALL they’ve got is lies and dirt tossing at the cleanest, most untouchable candidates ever.” True, but one could have said that about the Pharisees 2012 years ago and look at how THAT turned out.
Don’t trust the left, don’t get cocky and find some small way to participate and help unseat the socialists.
actually that should have been One thousand nine hundrede and eighty nine years ago.
Well, it’s apparent she doesn’t much care for people with blue eyes and is willing to say so. They apparently lack community values as she sees community values. At least the American kind do.
On the other hand she’d probably be quite happy among the blue-eyed of Norway. If she that is, she could find a job that paid for spitting bile, there.
I’m not sure what else to take from it. Other than that she believes that “You belong to me”; but not in a very nice way … and that she is clearly demented.
That is very interesting. Note that H. Clinton and J. Biden were part of the 60% of Dem Senators who voted for war. Look at where they now are in the Obama administration.
How did H. Clinton handle the “General Betrayus” ad? And then Sen. Obama lectured the General, using up the entire time so the General had no chance to respond.
About 40% of House Dems voted for war. Isn’t the time to oppose war at the actual decision point, not several years later when the going is hard?
It is very clear that the left’s problem with the General wa the fact that the war was turning around. Indeed, by 2008 the war was no longer something the left could use the way they did in 2006, and that is what worried them . . .
H. Clinton voted for war when it benifitted here politically, opposed it when it benifitted her, and then became the SoS of a man who’s hardest decision was opposing the war (at least prior to 2008 . . . assuming he wasn’t lying about it).
Really. Obama’s hardest decision was . . . a decision without consequence. Or else, it really wasn’t such a hard decision for him, and he was just lying, with the understanding that his target supporters lacked the understanding to realize it was a lie . . .
Remember gravitas? From a word never spoken aloud to a creptative stutter in one day.