The Left's Heart of Darkness

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On January 2, Alan Colmes on Fox News mocked presidential hopeful Rick Santorum and Santorum's wife for bringing their critically ill newborn son, Gabriel, into the world and then bringing him home. Gabriel died 16 years ago, and Karen Santorum wrote a heartrending book, Letters to Gabriel, which describes how the couple dealt with the grief of his death. Mother Teresa wrote the foreword for the book.

Although Colmes has quickly retreated from his remarks, his crudeness shows how the left really thinks. When Sarah Palin brings Trig, a child with Down Syndrome, into the world, and he is cherished and loved, the left spins its head -- why not just waste the kid before he was born? This mockery did not end with the 2008 campaign: Family Guy in 2010 made fun of Trig, and in April, another leftist goon mocked the young child on his third birthday. The left's heart of darkness is so dreadful that appalling bile seems normal to its minions until normal, moral people object.

Less noticed in the Fox News interview is Colmes's statement that Santorum is crazy also because he thinks that consensual sex between unmarried people is wrong. What offends Colmes and the left seems to be adherence to the traditional moral values of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and most of the world's historic metaphysical value systems. Santorum has not said that fornication is as great a sin as adultery, but he believes that sex should be confined within a marriage.

Does the left grasp just how much human misery it has caused by promoting the chic fashion of promiscuity? Do its disciples not grasp the horrors of the sexual revolution -- the millions of abortions, huge subsets of America's babies born out of wedlock, a huge rise in sexually transmitted diseases, and the general collapse of the nuclear family? Do people like Alan Colmes really believe that thoughtful politicians should speak in favor of sexual promiscuity?

How high does our rate of teenage suicide have to go before leftists like Colmes grasp that the values which most Americans have historically held are not ignorant, but rather wise? Many of our teenagers are drowning in drugs and booze. Their media idols lead horrific lives which often end in early death. How splintered and lonely, how atomized and pathetic do the lives of tens of millions of our countrymen have to become before we grasp that rejecting moral values has grave personal consequences?

Is it not clear that we can't go on like this? All we love, all we cherish, all we hope for is spiraling down a long, snaky drain into the leftist heart of darkness. The planned economy, the planned social life built upon the precepts of scientific materialism, the Brave New World of people like Alan Colmes -- all fit together in a single awful theme: we -- the left, that is -- have supplanted God and all the outdated values He prescribed at Sinai, in Galilee, and throughout the Judeo-Christian world.

Reality, viewed through the long death march of leftism in practice over the last fifty years, shows that transcendent moral principles cannot be trumped by our imagined cleverness. Instead of making Heaven, we have opened new doors of Hell.

Conservatives sometimes get too distracted by dollars and deficits and debt. These matter, of course -- they matter a great deal in political life. But the deconstruction of the American economy is a consequence, not a cause, of our fundamental problem, which is moral.

The road back requires first of all that politicians who are asked to cure social problems be allowed to tell the truth about why these problems exist. The values given us from above are beyond the reach of leftist pygmies, and the laws prescribed for us by God have definite and absolute consequences which ripple throughout our lives and the lives we touch.

Most of us secretly know that the hedonistic and atheistic system foisted upon our culture by leftist bosses is a suicide pill. Let us hope -- better, let us pray -- that those men and women who carry the banner of conservatism into political combat have the courage to speak that too often unspoken truth.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/the_lefts_heart_of_darkness.html#ixzz1inIoxZ4E
 
The Right's Heart of Darkness

The battle between Bush and McCain for South Carolina has entered American political lore as one of the nastiest, dirtiest, and most brutal ever.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][48][/SUP][SUP][49][/SUP] On the one hand, Bush switched his label for himself from "compassionate conservative" to "reformer with results", as part of trying to co-opt McCain's popular message of reform.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][50][/SUP][SUP][51][/SUP] On the other hand, a variety of business and interest groups that McCain had challenged in the past now pounded him with negative ads.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][52][/SUP]

The day that a new poll showed McCain five points ahead in the state,[SUP][53][/SUP] Bush allied himself on stage with a marginal and controversial veterans activist named J. Thomas Burch, who accused McCain of having "abandoned the veterans" on POW/MIA and Agent Orange issues: "He came home from Vietnam and forgot us."[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][53][/SUP] Incensed,[SUP][53][/SUP] McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing the governor to Bill Clinton,[SUP][14][/SUP] which Bush complained was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican primary."[SUP][14][/SUP] An unidentified party began a semi-underground smear campaign against McCain, delivered by push polls, faxes, e-mails, flyers, audience plants, and the like.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][54][/SUP] These claimed most famously that he had fathered a black child out of wedlock (the McCains' dark-skinned daughter Bridget was adopted from Bangladesh; this misrepresentation was thought to be an especially effective slur in a Deep South state where race was still central[SUP][49][/SUP]), but also that his wife Cindy was a drug addict, that he was a homosexual, and that he was a "Manchurian Candidate" traitor or mentally unstable from his North Vietnam POW days.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][48][/SUP] The Bush campaign strongly denied any involvement with these attacks;[SUP][48][/SUP] Bush said he would fire anyone who ran defamatory push polls.[SUP][55][/SUP] During a break in a debate, Bush put his hand on McCain's arm and reiterated that he had no involvement in the attacks; McCain replied, "Don't give me that shit. And take your hands off me."[SUP][47][/SUP]
Bush mobilized the state's evangelical voters,[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][24][/SUP] and leading conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh entered the fray supporting Bush and going on at length about how McCain was a favorite of liberal Democrats.[SUP][56][/SUP] Polls swung in Bush's favor; by not accepting federal matching funds for his campaign, Bush was not limited in how much money he could spend on advertisements, while McCain was near his limit.[SUP][56][/SUP] With three days to go, McCain shut down his negative ads against Bush and tried to stress a positive image.[SUP][56][/SUP] But McCain's stressing of campaign finance reform, and how Bush's proposed tax cuts would benefit the wealthy, did not appeal to core Republicans in the state.[SUP][24][/SUP]
McCain lost South Carolina on February 19, with 42 percent of the vote against Bush's 53 percent,[SUP][57][/SUP] allowing Bush to regain the momentum.[SUP][57][/SUP]
 
On January 2, Alan Colmes on Fox News mocked presidential hopeful Rick Santorum and Santorum's wife for bringing their critically ill newborn son, Gabriel, into the world and then bringing him home. Gabriel died 16 years ago, and Karen Santorum wrote a heartrending book, Letters to Gabriel, which describes how the couple dealt with the grief of his death. Mother Teresa wrote the foreword for the book.

Although Colmes has quickly retreated from his remarks, his crudeness shows how the left really thinks. When Sarah Palin brings Trig, a child with Down Syndrome, into the world, and he is cherished and loved, the left spins its head -- why not just waste the kid before he was born? This mockery did not end with the 2008 campaign: Family Guy in 2010 made fun of Trig, and in April, another leftist goon mocked the young child on his third birthday. The left's heart of darkness is so dreadful that appalling bile seems normal to its minions until normal, moral people object.

Less noticed in the Fox News interview is Colmes's statement that Santorum is crazy also because he thinks that consensual sex between unmarried people is wrong. What offends Colmes and the left seems to be adherence to the traditional moral values of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and most of the world's historic metaphysical value systems. Santorum has not said that fornication is as great a sin as adultery, but he believes that sex should be confined within a marriage.

Does the left grasp just how much human misery it has caused by promoting the chic fashion of promiscuity? Do its disciples not grasp the horrors of the sexual revolution -- the millions of abortions, huge subsets of America's babies born out of wedlock, a huge rise in sexually transmitted diseases, and the general collapse of the nuclear family? Do people like Alan Colmes really believe that thoughtful politicians should speak in favor of sexual promiscuity?

How high does our rate of teenage suicide have to go before leftists like Colmes grasp that the values which most Americans have historically held are not ignorant, but rather wise? Many of our teenagers are drowning in drugs and booze. Their media idols lead horrific lives which often end in early death. How splintered and lonely, how atomized and pathetic do the lives of tens of millions of our countrymen have to become before we grasp that rejecting moral values has grave personal consequences?

Is it not clear that we can't go on like this? All we love, all we cherish, all we hope for is spiraling down a long, snaky drain into the leftist heart of darkness. The planned economy, the planned social life built upon the precepts of scientific materialism, the Brave New World of people like Alan Colmes -- all fit together in a single awful theme: we -- the left, that is -- have supplanted God and all the outdated values He prescribed at Sinai, in Galilee, and throughout the Judeo-Christian world.

Reality, viewed through the long death march of leftism in practice over the last fifty years, shows that transcendent moral principles cannot be trumped by our imagined cleverness. Instead of making Heaven, we have opened new doors of Hell.

Conservatives sometimes get too distracted by dollars and deficits and debt. These matter, of course -- they matter a great deal in political life. But the deconstruction of the American economy is a consequence, not a cause, of our fundamental problem, which is moral.

The road back requires first of all that politicians who are asked to cure social problems be allowed to tell the truth about why these problems exist. The values given us from above are beyond the reach of leftist pygmies, and the laws prescribed for us by God have definite and absolute consequences which ripple throughout our lives and the lives we touch.

Most of us secretly know that the hedonistic and atheistic system foisted upon our culture by leftist bosses is a suicide pill. Let us hope -- better, let us pray -- that those men and women who carry the banner of conservatism into political combat have the courage to speak that too often unspoken truth.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/the_lefts_heart_of_darkness.html#ixzz1inIoxZ4E

Ironic indeed that the poster doesn't have the IQ necessary to write something like this on his own, but must instead go to a site called "the american thinker" and find someone to do his thinking FOR him...
 
The battle between Bush and McCain for South Carolina has entered American political lore as one of the nastiest, dirtiest, and most brutal ever.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][48][/SUP][SUP][49][/SUP] On the one hand, Bush switched his label for himself from "compassionate conservative" to "reformer with results", as part of trying to co-opt McCain's popular message of reform.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][50][/SUP][SUP][51][/SUP] On the other hand, a variety of business and interest groups that McCain had challenged in the past now pounded him with negative ads.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][52][/SUP]

The day that a new poll showed McCain five points ahead in the state,[SUP][53][/SUP] Bush allied himself on stage with a marginal and controversial veterans activist named J. Thomas Burch, who accused McCain of having "abandoned the veterans" on POW/MIA and Agent Orange issues: "He came home from Vietnam and forgot us."[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][53][/SUP] Incensed,[SUP][53][/SUP] McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing the governor to Bill Clinton,[SUP][14][/SUP] which Bush complained was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican primary."[SUP][14][/SUP] An unidentified party began a semi-underground smear campaign against McCain, delivered by push polls, faxes, e-mails, flyers, audience plants, and the like.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][54][/SUP] These claimed most famously that he had fathered a black child out of wedlock (the McCains' dark-skinned daughter Bridget was adopted from Bangladesh; this misrepresentation was thought to be an especially effective slur in a Deep South state where race was still central[SUP][49][/SUP]), but also that his wife Cindy was a drug addict, that he was a homosexual, and that he was a "Manchurian Candidate" traitor or mentally unstable from his North Vietnam POW days.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][48][/SUP] The Bush campaign strongly denied any involvement with these attacks;[SUP][48][/SUP] Bush said he would fire anyone who ran defamatory push polls.[SUP][55][/SUP] During a break in a debate, Bush put his hand on McCain's arm and reiterated that he had no involvement in the attacks; McCain replied, "Don't give me that shit. And take your hands off me."[SUP][47][/SUP]
Bush mobilized the state's evangelical voters,[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][24][/SUP] and leading conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh entered the fray supporting Bush and going on at length about how McCain was a favorite of liberal Democrats.[SUP][56][/SUP] Polls swung in Bush's favor; by not accepting federal matching funds for his campaign, Bush was not limited in how much money he could spend on advertisements, while McCain was near his limit.[SUP][56][/SUP] With three days to go, McCain shut down his negative ads against Bush and tried to stress a positive image.[SUP][56][/SUP] But McCain's stressing of campaign finance reform, and how Bush's proposed tax cuts would benefit the wealthy, did not appeal to core Republicans in the state.[SUP][24][/SUP]
McCain lost South Carolina on February 19, with 42 percent of the vote against Bush's 53 percent,[SUP][57][/SUP] allowing Bush to regain the momentum.[SUP][57][/SUP]

why do you complain about others "they do it too" and then turn around and do the same thing?
 
the left's treatment of palin/trig was horrible....

and just look at the lefties who have posted so far, they basically ignore/defend it
 
Does the left grasp just how much human misery it has caused by promoting the chic fashion of promiscuity?

No.

Do its disciples not grasp the horrors of the sexual revolution -- the millions of abortions, huge subsets of America's babies born out of wedlock, a huge rise in sexually transmitted diseases, and the general collapse of the nuclear family?

These are all things primarily caused by the right's insistence on an abstinence only policy.
 
yes, the left's hateful spew at Trig was a prime example of their dark nasty hearts. It's sick how low the left has taken us when it comes to politics in this great nation. The left doesn't make it about an exchange of ideas. They have to resort to smears and lies and make everything personal to demonize their opponents instead of acting in the American way.

Sick sleazy haters.
 
why do you complain about others "they do it too" and then turn around and do the same thing?

why do you lie? you lefties are hiliarious...you constantly bitch when those on the right use they do it too, yet you have no problem doing it yourself or when your fellow lefties do it. if this thread was about a righty and those on the right treated as you lefties have, you would be crying foul.
 
the left's treatment of palin/trig was horrible....

and just look at the lefties who have posted so far, they basically ignore/defend it

The right's treatment of Bridget McCain was horrible and all you RW toadies can do is criticize us with the old "they do it too" meme.

An unidentified party began a semi-underground smear campaign against McCain, delivered by push polls, faxes, e-mails, flyers, audience plants, and the like.[SUP][14][/SUP][SUP][54][/SUP] These claimed most famously that he had fathered a black child out of wedlock (the McCains' dark-skinned daughter Bridget was adopted from Bangladesh; this misrepresentation was thought to be an especially effective slur in a Deep South state where race was still centralhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain_presidential_campaign,_2000#cite_note-dp2008-48.
 
why do you lie? you lefties are hiliarious...you constantly bitch when those on the right use they do it too, yet you have no problem doing it yourself or when your fellow lefties do it. if this thread was about a righty and those on the right treated as you lefties have, you would be crying foul.

Grow up already. My post was in defense of REPUBLICAN McCain's family and the egregious lies over Bridget.
 
why do you lie? you lefties are hiliarious...you constantly bitch when those on the right use they do it too, yet you have no problem doing it yourself or when your fellow lefties do it. if this thread was about a righty and those on the right treated as you lefties have, you would be crying foul.

why do you complain about others "they do it too" and then turn around and do the same thing?
 
How high does our rate of teenage suicide have to go before leftists like Colmes grasp that the values which most Americans have historically held are not ignorant, but rather wise?

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Another graph that starts from the 60's: http://truckandbarter.com/images/suicide1519smaller.GIF

Teen suicide rates have been rather flat since the 80's (where they peaked) and have actually been steadily decreasing in recent years.

Many of our teenagers are drowning in drugs and booze.

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Teen drug use is mostly down.

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Teen alcohol use is way down in pretty much every grade group over just the past 20 years.

Their media idols lead horrific lives which often end in early death. How splintered and lonely, how atomized and pathetic do the lives of tens of millions of our countrymen have to become before we grasp that rejecting moral values has grave personal consequences?

If you are going to go for an post hoc ergo propter hoc, at least examine the statistics beforehand, and don't simply throw out inaccurate gloomy statements as if they're a given. As it is, if there has been a decline in moral values in the past 20 years, and we are to assume that correlation = causation, then it is clear that our moral decline has reduced teen suicide rates and drug use.

Is it not clear that we can't go on like this?

I think it's highly unlikely that we'll ever reach a state of no drug use and no suicides, so I guess it will have to end at some point.

All we love, all we cherish, all we hope for is spiraling down a long, snaky drain into the leftist heart of darkness.

Teen suicides and drug abuse?

The planned economy,

:blah:

the planned social life built upon the precepts of scientific materialism, the Brave New World of people like Alan Colmes -- all fit together in a single awful theme: we -- the left, that is -- have supplanted God and all the outdated values He prescribed at Sinai, in Galilee, and throughout the Judeo-Christian world.

Hey, you can't argue with results. If it works, it works.

Reality, viewed through the long death march of leftism in practice over the last fifty years, shows that transcendent moral principles cannot be trumped by our imagined cleverness. Instead of making Heaven, we have opened new doors of Hell.

I guess hell wasn't so bad after all.

Conservatives sometimes get too distracted by dollars and deficits and debt. These matter, of course -- they matter a great deal in political life. But the deconstruction of the American economy is a consequence, not a cause, of our fundamental problem, which is moral.

Yes, jump onto the sinking ship while you can.

The road back requires first of all that politicians who are asked to cure social problems be allowed to tell the truth about why these problems exist. The values given us from above are beyond the reach of leftist pygmies, and the laws prescribed for us by God have definite and absolute consequences which ripple throughout our lives and the lives we touch.

I really must criticize God's enforcement mechanisms for his laws. He seems to punish people in ways that could easily be mistaken for shitty things that just happen, long after the fact, and without informing you specifically for what you are being punished. It completely disconnects cause and event. Imagine if I were the governor and I made it official policy to punish burglar's by, for instance, waiting 10 years, tripping them on the street, and then running away. Other times, I will introduce him to the love of his life (who is secretly a paid agent kept on board for these tasks), have them produce a child together, drive that child to suicide in its teen years, and then recall the agent sometime afterward. Just completely inconsistent and random like that, without any rhyme or reason, taking special care to entirely seperate apparent cause from apparent effect. If I keep on doing stuff like that, rather than, for instance, immediately arresting and punishing them, people might start to think this "law" thing doesn't really exist, and that shitty stuff just happens sometimes.

Most of us secretly know that the hedonistic and atheistic system foisted upon our culture by leftist bosses is a suicide pill. Let us hope -- better, let us pray -- that those men and women who carry the banner of conservatism into political combat have the courage to speak that too often unspoken truth.

Yes, I will pray that your movement decides to suicide itself in such a way.
 
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