Ideas Versus Personalities

Have you ever noticed that liberals hate to argue about or attack ideas. They much prefer to target people. So they will avoid a debate about whether or not it is a good idea to allow public unions, but can't wait to sling some shit at Scott Walker. The more a conservative worries them, the harder they attack. This is particularly so whenever the conservative is from one of their affinity groups. The most vicious and sustained campaign they ever ran was against Sara Palin. How dare they!! A woman? Gotta take her down hard. Herman Cain. A black conservative?? No way. He had barely made it to the top of the polls before they nailed him in the sleaziest way possible. Ted Cruz is Hispanic and has better academic credentials than Obama. So the label they slapped on him was "radical." He might even be CRAZY.

For eight years nary a word was spoken against conservatism. But George W. Bush  was regularly designated the worst person in the world. And when conservative ideas are implemented, they will redefine the reasons for you. So when Paul Ryan says he opposes Obamacare because it's fiscally irresponsible, they say he just doesn't want poor people to have insurance. It's all so much easier if you can start with the premise that he is just a bad person to begin with.