“Center-Right”? Dream On, Conservative Losers!
Think Progress catches conservatives making up stories:
Last Friday, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer called the United States “the quintessential center-right country,” and wondered why it was “poised to reject” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), “the quintessential center-right candidate.” Last week’s Newsweek cover declared, “America remains a center-right nation — a fact that a President Obama would forget at his peril.” …
By insisting that — despite all appearances to the contrary — Americans favor conservatives, the right wing is trying to handicap the progressive agenda before it has a chance of being enacted. But today’s election results are likely to throw an even greater wrench in the “center-right country” myth.
Unfortunately, that wrench hasn’t been thrown yet, because I am seeing more mainstream sources (including some Democrats like Harry Reid, Stainy Whore, and Chuckles Schumer) throwing floating this balloon. So let me put the kibosh on it.
Anytime you see a conservative concern troll making this preposterous argument, remind them of this:
Fact: The Republicans and conservatives described Obama as “the most liberal Senator in the senate”.
Fact: these same groups said Obama was even farther left than that. “He’s a Marxist!” “He’s a Socialist!” “He’s a radical leftist!”
Fact: Obama beat George Bush’s 2004 “mandate” by a long shot.
Fact: The socialist liberal marxist Democrats have practically taken over the electoral map…
… reducing the GOP to what Republican Tom Davis calls “a regional party, basically become a white, rural, regional party, and not a national party.”
After you’ve reacquainted your conservative pal with the facts of the matter, ask them the following two questions:
If the country is so “right of center” how come Americans (now including North carolina) overwhelmingly voted for the most liberal senator who is widely identified as a Marxist, a radical leftist, and a socialist?
If the country is so “right of center” how come the radical leftist, Marxist, socialist Democratic party as a whole ran roughshod over the red states, picking up seats in the House and the Senate?
“Center-right”? IN YOUR DREAMS.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
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