Ed Kilgore finds a mirror image between the right and the left

[NJMaverick]

Quote:So, are you one of those progressives who is convinced the White House and Democratic congressional leaders are busy getting ready to sell out "the base" on a deal to avoid a government shutdown? If so, you might want to look at what one influential conservative is saying on the heels of reports that House Republicans are talking actively to Democrats as a hedge against conservative defections

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RedState's Erick Erickson crying betrayal....

With no spine, the GOP will fold and show no leadership. This is precisely what leadership by fear does. So fearful of a shutdown, the GOP will sell its soul, betray its base, and out negotiate itself all because it is scared of its own shadow.

Game over.

Erickson's post is remarkable in part because it deploys every cliche known to humankind to convey the belief that ideological heterodoxy is necessarily a matter of cowardice, not some different strategic or tactical approach. Beyond that, though, it's a reasonably faithful mirror image of what we are hearing from a decent number of progressives who are similiarly convinced Democrats are wandering the battlefield looking for someone to whom to surrender.

http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/s...trayal.php

[nofurylike]

the media keeps getting their definitions mixed up. somehow we must reeducate them that it is the far left saying such things, not the left, or progressives, and that they are not "the base."

thank you for posting this, NJMaverick.

[Cha]

(03-31-2011 05:58 AM)nofurylike Wrote:  the media keeps getting their definitions mixed up. somehow we must reeducate them that it is the far left saying such things, not the left, or progressives, and that they are not "the base."

thank you for posting this, NJMaverick.

Precisely, nofurylike..they never were the base..they just said they were as a robo ingredient of their incessant whine.

[There Is No Spoon]

I just commented somewhere about how there's no difference between the basement-dwellers on the left and those on the right. I have ideals too - doesn't mean I'm going to act like a Teabagger or Professional Leftist and proclaim "my way or the highway".

Anybody can be an uncompromising idealist, it's easy. Simply choose your "side" (extreme left or right), then turn off your brain and start screaming at the top of your lungs until you're hoarse. Done. Thanks for playing. Now the big boys and girls will go about feeding and sheltering your pathetic asses. Back to the basement, you're on punishment.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

This is someething MM pointed out...the Freepers thought Bush was a liberal.