The Other McCain

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Remember: If You Didn’t Vote for Obama, You’re a Dangerous Nut

Posted on | March 1, 2010 | 18 Comments

From my latest American Spectator column:

Accusing opponents of dangerous insanity has become so commonplace in the Age of Obama that such discourse is now taken for granted. Frank Rich devoted the entirety of his Sunday New York Times column to insinuating that the Tea Party movement is a paranoid aggregation motivated by “frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage,” and thereby complicit in the Feb. 18 crime of Andrew Joseph Stack III, who piloted his Piper airplane into an Internal Revenue Service office in Texas.
This rhetorical conflation of political protests and Stack’s kamikaze crash required Rich to overlook the quite specific grievances described by Stack in his profanity-strewn suicide note. Stack alluded to a “$10,000 helping of justice” — apparently a penalty for failure to file a tax return several years ago — and blamed his accountant and the IRS for a more recent audit involving $12,700 of his wife’s unreported income.
Along with his strictly personal ax-grinding against the IRS-CPA axis, Stack also ranted about “the vulgar, corrupt Catholic church,” “the monsters of organized religion,” “presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies,” the “rich” and “wealthy.” None of that bears meaningful resemblance to the politics of Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Glenn Beck or any of the other name-brand figures swept up in Frank Rich’s all-encompassing indictment of what he calls the “anti-government right.” . . .

Please read the whole thing.

UPDATE: It’s a target-rich environment, so to speak:

More at Memeorandum.

Category: CPAC, New York Times, Tea Party

Comments

18 Responses to “Remember: If You Didn’t Vote for Obama, You’re a Dangerous Nut”

  1. chuck cross
    March 1st, 2010 @ 12:59 pm

    Excellent column — will send this one around!

  2. chuck cross
    March 1st, 2010 @ 7:59 am

    Excellent column — will send this one around!

  3. DYSPEPSIA GENERATION » Blog Archive » Remember: If You Didn’t Vote for Obama, You’re a Dangerous Nut
    March 1st, 2010 @ 8:18 am

    […] The Other McCain weighs in on Frank Rich. Accusing opponents of dangerous insanity has become so commonplace in the Age of Obama that such discourse is now taken for granted. […]

  4. USMC
    March 1st, 2010 @ 1:19 pm

    Mr. McCain,

    I was wondering why do we continue to debate these people as if they’re relevant?

    Their media is dying and we should let it die!
    The progressives are lost and many will never learn until their theories are experienced in their lives and even then they may not see the light.

    There are tens of millions out there who haven’t drunk the Kool Aid. By no means am I telling you what to do but this is a suggestion.

    Stop responding to this BS and talk about returning to our Founders, etc. Now, if a scandal breaks that exposes progressive organizations then so be it. Hell, expose the progressive founders and their despicable beliefs. But this tit for tat is slowing us down. IMHO.

    Many will disagree with this tactic. I understand that. In my mind “the debate is over.” We just need to impose our will and return to Liberty and to hell with their opinions and what they believe.

  5. USMC
    March 1st, 2010 @ 8:19 am

    Mr. McCain,

    I was wondering why do we continue to debate these people as if they’re relevant?

    Their media is dying and we should let it die!
    The progressives are lost and many will never learn until their theories are experienced in their lives and even then they may not see the light.

    There are tens of millions out there who haven’t drunk the Kool Aid. By no means am I telling you what to do but this is a suggestion.

    Stop responding to this BS and talk about returning to our Founders, etc. Now, if a scandal breaks that exposes progressive organizations then so be it. Hell, expose the progressive founders and their despicable beliefs. But this tit for tat is slowing us down. IMHO.

    Many will disagree with this tactic. I understand that. In my mind “the debate is over.” We just need to impose our will and return to Liberty and to hell with their opinions and what they believe.

  6. Reaganite Republican
    March 1st, 2010 @ 1:23 pm

    Well done sir, featured and linked at Reaganite Republican-

    http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/03/nyt-if-you-didnt-vote-for-obama-youre.html

  7. Reaganite Republican
    March 1st, 2010 @ 8:23 am

    Well done sir, featured and linked at Reaganite Republican-

    http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/03/nyt-if-you-didnt-vote-for-obama-youre.html

  8. Dave C
    March 1st, 2010 @ 1:43 pm

    Isn’t it like shooting fish in a barrel anymore?

  9. Dave C
    March 1st, 2010 @ 8:43 am

    Isn’t it like shooting fish in a barrel anymore?

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  11. keyboard jockey
    March 1st, 2010 @ 3:10 pm

    The Kool Aide Has Turned To Poison, Will The Democrats Still Drink It?

    http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-koolaid-is-now-poison-will-the-democrats-drink-it/

  12. keyboard jockey
    March 1st, 2010 @ 10:10 am

    The Kool Aide Has Turned To Poison, Will The Democrats Still Drink It?

    http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-koolaid-is-now-poison-will-the-democrats-drink-it/

  13. Rich Fader
    March 1st, 2010 @ 5:44 pm

    Hey, now! I’m a dangerous nut entirely aside from that.

  14. Rich Fader
    March 1st, 2010 @ 12:44 pm

    Hey, now! I’m a dangerous nut entirely aside from that.

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    March 1st, 2010 @ 6:55 pm

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