Sure, you can call out all the usual suspects on the internet, those who scaffold people like the horrid woman featured in Solon's video, posted below. You know, the Little Green Footballs, the Urgent Agendas, the Red States, the Michelle Malkins, the Ann Althouses, the Powerlines, the Captains Quarters. Yes, they are all participating in the "he's an anti-American terrorist" meme, because that is all they have, and all they have had in this election. Four years ago they had homophobia, now they don't even have that.But it's also the many little sites like this that do the groundwork of perpetuating lies, smears, scare tactics. Take a good look at this guy's site, Readers. Verily he deserves a shout out for participating in the great project of hate-filled political discourse.
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The picture represents a losing argument.
Conservatives, if they choose to debate and remain peaceful, will need a political time-out to retool their message and reconcile thought with their anti-intellectualism.
Some on the right are in the process of trying to argue that Conservatism needed an intellectual backing (Noonan, Brooks, Frum, Sullivan). Others, like most writers at The National Review and The Weekly Standard, are preventing any form of intellectualism that is not their own. You link focuses on this type of conservatism, just like the Rep. from Minnesota who appeared on Hardball.
The Presidency of GWB may represent the end of the anti-intellectual strain of the Conservative movement. At least, we can hope.
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