It's all about Pakistan now

[RgrF]

Acer wrote:
I'd like to see a conservative version of Ted King or Grace62 here. Both of them write thoughtful, substantiated posts with few if any invectives or personal attacks, then engage in meaningful discussion of same.

I've NEVER seen a strong conservative even try that here. It's always Rush's talking points, or repeating the same damn "question" over and over when its been addressed a hundred freaking times, or at best some vaguely whiney stereotyped presumption about what liberals REALLY want, e.g. to control our lives or take our money.

Actually, that pretty much describes all strong conservative discourse of the last ten years everywhere. Bill Buckley has got to be rolling in his grave.

(When cbelt gets thoughtful, he starts to sound suspiciously moderate, which is telling in and of itself.)

That could be because todays moderate Democrats are yesterdays Republicans. The country has been jerked so far right that what was a laughing stock 50-years ago (John Birch Society etc.) has become the staple of today's right wing thought.

The idea that this country has any sort of viable "left wing" is laughable. What we in fact have is a moderate middle opposed and attacked by a well-funded and tightly organized radical right.