Re: There are some bad people on the left
> I'm not a Republican. I don't look to a political party when deciding
> whether to stand firmly against the forces of fascism, totalitarianism,
> and Islamic terrorism. It's what one calls a no-brainer for me, and my
> position would be (and has been) the same regardless of who occupies the
> White House. That some people are confused as to which side they're on,
> and domestic partisanship influences whether they'll stand up against an
> enemy that represents everything I despise on this earth, is their problem
> and their moral failing. I can't think of a more clear-cut issue under the
> sun, or one that I'm prouder to take.
> When I see propagandist Michael Moore come out of the closet as a fascist,
> referring to Zarqawi as a "minute man" of Iraq whom he is openly
> rooting for, and when I see MoveOn.org having little regard for human life
> when they call for an immediate pull-out of Iraq, I do feel sick to my
> stomach. But this doesn't make me a Republican. It makes me a humanitarian
> who won't be duped by some very bad on the Left.
> There's some good people on the Left, too. I'm still pushing Paul Berman's
> excellent book, Terror and Liberalism, for example. There's a whole
> segment on the Left who haven't gotten morally confused. Just as there's a
> segment on the Right who find themselves siding with the paranoid
> mentality of the MoveOn.org morons, such as Patrick Buchanan
> and...er...David Duke. Yup, things are pretty clear-cut, and party
> affiliation has little to do with it.
Yeah, I can understand that. Nothing is black and white anymore (well, was it ever?). I'm registered as an Independent, by the way. I'm way more liberal than conservative, but as you said, there are some topics which are just "no brainers". I guess you and I have more in common than I thought.
But, hey, I guess we Jews are all the same.