Wednesday, February 10, 2010

CONSERVATIVES DO SMUG WELL

Sometimes I think reading the letters to the editor in The Fresno Bee is a little sado-masochistic. It's a page dominated by right-wing "commentators," who don't offer much in the way of real discussion. What conservatives do very well is to be smug and self-serving.

Remember when George W. Bush stole the White House and we were told the "grown ups" were in charge? Bush and company proceeded to lie us into two wars, assault civil liberties, and wreck the economy. Yesterday's Bee had another right-wing letter saying that right-wing kooks should just "laugh" at liberals. It would be easy to laugh at conservatives when you consider their general lunacy. People who flock to a nitwit like Sarah Palin don't deserve much respect.

But when you look at the horror wrought by conservatives on this country and the rest of the world you realize it's no laughing matter.