Conservatives Are Just Bedwetting Wimps

1:13 am EST August 24th, 2010 | Conservative | 4 Comments

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Eugene Robinson explains what the latest garment-rending from the right tells us:

The thing is, though, that the manufactured brouhaha over the Park51 project is part of a larger pattern in which the far right embraces victimhood and stokes fear. The faction that likes to portray itself as a bunch of John Waynes and ‘mama grizzlies,’ it turns out, spends an awful lot of time cowering in the corner and complaining about how beastly everyone else is being.

On 9/11, while we all grieved and experienced shock, the American right went to a scary place and never got better. You can see it in their approach to Islam both at home and abroad. Rather than separating out enemy and foe, they saw “different” and retired to their bunkers.

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4 Responses to “Conservatives Are Just Bedwetting Wimps”

  1. White Whale says:
    August 24, 2010 at 9:07 am

    As with all Republicans: When they tout what tough guys they are they are truly chicken shit scared and wimps. They live a constant and continual contradictory existence.

  2. Repack Rider says:
    August 24, 2010 at 10:17 am

    Maybe one of the resident tea, um PARTIERS can tell us why Republicans and conservatives in general are such cowards.

    I’m hundreds of times more likely to be killed by a fellow American citizen with a legally owned firearm than I am by a terrorist, but I sure don’t hide every day from my fellow citizens.

  3. merl says:
    August 25, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    The repub party just seems to need enemies and someone to be afraid of for some reason.

  4. Sean D. Martin says:
    August 25, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    The repub party just seems to need enemies and someone to be afraid of for some reason.

    Because they are, at heart, despite all their tough-talking strutting, cowards and opportunists.

    And they know this. It’s why their pervasive strategy is “Make folks scared of something. Because scared people don’t think. And nobody who thinks would have any reason to vote for us.”