October 28, 2014      5:09 PM
Bearse: Festivus for the Rest of us
From the Right: Quorum Report’s conservative columnist argues that Democrats are resorting to fear in the closing days of the campaign
I don’t know
about you, but I am tired of the politics of grievance coming from Democrats.
They live in a constant state of Festivus, airing a
laundry list of grievances and identity attacks as if they have nothing else to
talk about.
A Democrat
in Congress calls North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis,
“Uncle Thom.” The Democrat running against South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said, “we
are going to escort whore out the door.” DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said about the governor of Wisconsin, “Scott Walker has given women the back
of his hand. I know that is stark. I know that is direct. But that is
reality…What Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is
they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back.” Apparently not satisfied
with assailing Republicans with images of domestic violence, DWS invoked ebola and terrorism
to describe her friends on the other side of the aisle, saying, “So, it seems
that the Democrats’ overall message is yes, ISIS is scary. Yes, Ebola
is scary, but Republicans are a lot scarier.”
The heck
with Ebola tents, let’s quarantine America from Republicans!
This is a
tried and true technique of Democrats to rile up the base. They thrive off
resentment. Even their loftier sentiments cloaked in fairness have an unspoken
message: that you are entitled to better, and would be better off if the boogiemen
oppressing you were made to heel. If only we took more from those who are
financially successful we could make the world a better place. Not every
Democrat speaks against the “evils” of capitalism, but every time someone does
they are a Democrat. It’s about the only time they think Darwinian theory is not gospel.
To live in a
state of grievance, you have to believe you are not responsible for your own
fate, for your own happiness, for your own family. That is the responsibility
of government, which rights social wrongs and redistributes to favored
constituencies.
The
Democratically-contrived “war on women” stokes the fires of gender resentment.
This is how Senator Leticia Van de Putte can run an ad misleading all of Texas on the
premise that Senator Dan Patrick
thinks there are legitimate differences about rape, without nary a protest of
outrage from the sleeping supplicants in the press. Patrick’s statement was
really about whether abortion should be legal in the case of rape, but those
are silly nuances for those playing the gender card. It is the most disgusting,
disingenuous ad of the election cycle, which is saying a lot if you have been
victimized by Wendy Davis’ ads.
The complete column from Eric Bearse
can be found by clicking on the R&D
Department.
By Eric Bearse
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