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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Conservatives Have Misled the American People

Mary Mitchellon at the Chicago Sun-Times says Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's aggressive, "negative tone" as she exposed Barack Obama's association with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is "dangerous." Mitchellon also says Palin should "apologize to the Obama campaign and the American people."

I think Mitchellon has a point.

Conservatives have indeed been misleading liberals--and the nation--for many years now.

As a group, conservatives have led people to believe we are too ashamed of our beliefs to articulate them boldly in the arena of ideas.

We misled people into thinking we were doormats who wouldn't stand up for what is important to us.

If conservatives showed up at all to the fight, we were usually few in number, huddled quietly in our little corners and spoke in soft voices so as not to provoke the ire of the "mainstream" media and other liberals in the opposition. And we have been very careful to not play aggressively, lest the opposition say we're "mean."

And because of this deception we as conservatives have perpetrated on the people of America--including"mainstream" media and other liberals--they have become accustomed to having the field to themselves.

Then here comes Sarah Palin who is refusing to play by these established rules for conservatives.

Oh, probably at the advice of some of her handlers...

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