
Over at Fred Hiatt’s Vast Wasteland, Gerard Alexander finds it very hurtful that liberals are “condescending” to conservatives who are as fragile as a young girls dreams and every time you say something mean to them it’s like you’re breaking the horn off of one of their glass unicorns causing them to spiral into a fantasy world of psychosis and Ayn Rand novels.
Or as Elaine Benes once said:
ELAINE: Why do they call it a wedgie?
GEORGE: Because the underwear is pulled up from the back and … it wedges in..
JERRY: They also have an atomic wedgie. Now the goal there is to actually get the
waistband on top of the head. Very rare.ELAINE: Boys are sick.
JERRY: Well what do girls do ?
ELAINE: We just tease someone ’til they develop an eating disorder.
But what does Gerard Alexander have to say for himself?
This worldview was on display in the popular liberal reaction to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Rather than engage in a discussion about the complexities of free speech in politics, liberals have largely argued that the decision will “open the floodgates for special interests” to influence American elections, as the president warned in his State of the Union address. In other words, it was all part of the conspiracy to support conservative candidates for their nefarious, self-serving ends.
It follows that the thinkers, politicians and citizens who advance conservative ideas must be dupes, quacks or hired guns selling stories they know to be a sham.
Yeah, whatever Gerard.





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It follows that the thinkers, politicians and citizens who advance conservative ideas must be dupes, quacks or hired guns selling stories they know to be a sham.
Umm … yeah, you hit the fucking nail on the head you blithering fumbledick. That’s exactly what is happening and reasonable and reasonably sane people point to every goddamn instance and wonder to themselves “sheesh these people are stupider than a tea bagger at a Palin rally.”
But an even more salient point to be made for your edification you smarmy cocknozzle, is that you’re not advancing conservative principles or ideas, what you are advancing are bat-shit insane, racist, intolerant and utterly repugnant ideas. And we notice. And naturally it follows … we mock.
Reality bites and the truth hurts. Bummer.
Truth hurts, don’t it asshat?
Does AEI hire anyone who isn’t
(and yes, I know that’s a rhetorical question)
Uh, yes. Next question?
On a side note, is case you hadn’t heard, “After taxes, a million dollars isn’t a lot of money”. — Michael Steele
They keep handing the Dems this stuff on a silver platter and they do Nothing!!! It drives me crazy.
Whereas the conservatives, in the great traditions of Plato, Edmund Burke and Alexander Hamilton, offer reasoned, careful arguments that Obama is a Kenyan Nazi Communist Muslim who wants to kill your grandmother and buy ice cream for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Liberals Respond to Accusations of Arrogance and Condescension with Arrogance and Condescension
Pulling their underwear over their heads is too easy. Mostly because they wear granny pants.
Is this you?
Too attractive and intelligent looking.
Isn’t it wonderful that Alexander is enthused about the ease with which conservative candidates will be bought and paid for?
I respond by whipping out my dick and peeing into your mouth. Now swallow.
Washington Dems are governing, so it’s left up to all of us in the blogosphere to do all the dirty (and fun) work of rippin’ ‘em up with their own words.
Enjoy!
Q: Why do Americans think conservatism is a joke?
A: 2001-2006
I can’t believe my alma mater hired this guy to teach for them.
I’ll use short words so you can keep up.
When speaking to stupid people or small kids, we invariably sound condescending (sorry, could not avoid that long word.) That is what happens when you have to use short words that are easy to get in order to communicate. (borderline long word there, but you can stretch for it.)
Needing to do this for you, and not when we talk to each other breeds arrogance. This is because it IS, in fact, arrogant to be smarter than you are and to know this.
The alternative is that you are not as stupid as you act, which means that you are dishonest and have no honor. Most people with a proper moral constitution don’t give up their honor easily. So it is safe to assume that you sold your honor and your opinion to the highest bidder.
Dupes, quacks and hired-guns.=DQHG’s.
-G
Just another conservative apologist, earning his financial stipend, defending the indefensible. I’m still waiting for a cogent argument in support of corporations buying our politicians and elections. There’s nothing free about bought-and-paid-for speech.
So, since Mrs. TBogg is away there’s no one to keep you in line, is that it? You link to a long-ass article in the Washington Post that drones on and on by a guy who doesn’t know which end of the shovel does the work and we have to read it ALL just to get the joke you’ve stuck in the top graf. From now on you need to post bassets and Tebow articles, and, Mrs. TBogg anecdotes. Leave the
…thinkers, politicians and citizens who advance conservative ideas…
alone and get back to quality snark we can believe in. (stepping off soapbox)
It’s true, the lousy liberals are all condescending with arrogant, with their so-called logic, reason, and book-learnin’. It’s like every time you challenge a ’66 Corvette to race your Prius. You don’t have to be a high-school graduate to read the meaning in their smirking “Uh, I think I’ll pass.”
Such arrogance and condescension makes me mad as hell. And I’m not going to take it anymore. I’m going Galt, and I’m taking my ball with me.
This hurts us more than it hurts you, Potfy. When you grow up you’ll thank us.
Actually, I’d go for VonZepplin @6 for the win…
When Republicans have no facts, they pound the table with the straw men they’ve created. No wonder my hay fever’s acted up suddenly.
Poor dear, it must hurt not to be able to wear the mask of seeming sanity when out among the general public, now that the DKos poll of self-identified Republicans has shown you for what you are.
Well, let’s see: Supply-side economics? Sham. Global-warming denialism? Sham. Bankster bailouts? Sham. Post-9/11 air quality in lower Manhattan? Sham. Creationism? Sham. WMDs in Iraq? Sham. I could go on …