If you really think the guy with the diapered donkey hung in effigy yelling demeaning epithets face to face with an opposing crowd of two thousand actually make your cause look noble, better check the old think machine because it's obviously malfunctioning.
Also, and I'm sure you already know this, carrying weapons to a healthcare rally is clearly not about healthcare or freedom, it's about threatening. We know it, you know it. Pretending it's about your right to have a gun in Arizona only makes you look like a liar. It's about being so scary your opponents are silenced: it's a message--if you annoy me too much I'll shoot you. No, it's not about self-defense when you're the one doing the bullying. It's called assault with a deadly weapon. After all, it is an assault rifle. And no, no stampeding herd of deer were likely to attack us that morning in downtown Phoenix thus require the twenty shot clip and backup pistol on your hip, so you can't call it hunting either. We know what you wish you were hunting and in America that's not called patriotism, it's called murder.
If your message is good, you won't need to act badly to convince others of it. Speaking of which, the whole Hitler thing would really be comic if it weren't so pathetic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did it too; but we were comparing Bush to Hitler for taking millions of lives, not saving millions of lives. Get a new slogan, that horse won't run.
The Preamble to the Constitution establishes the goals for the new government it was designed to create. The media and the GOP leadership as well have been quite willing to forget that insuring domestic tranquility and promoting the general welfare are both among our highest goals and both clearly socialist. For that matter, "For the People, Of the People, By the People" is the epitomy of socialism. And if you aren't willing to work for those goals, then who is the real anti-patriot?
--mikel weisser writes from the left coast of AZ
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