Sadly, I understand why the Left feels they are too nice. Many of the Leftists I encounter spend their days not killing people.

Robert-

Rationalizing abortion on demand isn't self-indulgent? Killing innocents is OK? Self-defense is not? How many homosexuals have died because their behavior is encouraged by the left in the name of abstract equality and moral relativism? Nice, in their own minds.

Like the Right in the late 50's-60's, the Left is hypnotized by The Other. They're the Birchers of the new millenium, with all the attendant visciousness, quackery and paranoia.

"This, needless to say, is not how conservatives traveled from the political wilderness to political power. Since John Kerry's loss..."

I want my power back, and I want it now!!!

What he seems to leave out is the fact that the conservatives took decades to return from "the political wilderness" of the 1940s-50s, with stops like Goldwater, Nixon and Bush the Elder along the way. This guy seems to think that all of history was compressed into 1992-1994. He doesn't even understand what he's written. He's so afraid of not winning elections in '006 and '008 that he doesn't realize he on the track to lose elections in the '20s and '30s, too.

Notice that NASCAR Man's understanding of the Liberal is far more incisive than the obverse. So, who's the genius here?

Liberal's utter disdain for working class white males leaves me cold. It's probably idiosyncratic, but I find Beinart's article profoundly condescending and offensive.

Except the Birchers were right. There were commies sneaking around doing their dirty work, and also true was that the traitors inside the US government would betray the country's sovereignty to the United Nations for a collectivist New World Order managed by a 'one-world socialist government. (proof being the current UN)

Also Robert Welch advised JBS members to "join your local PTA at the beginning of the school year, get your conservative friends to do likewise, and go to work to take it over and 50 years later our schools are suffering because conservatives didn't heed his warning.

Welch's statement that "Eisenhower was a conscious, dedicated agent of the Communist Conspiracy" might be considered over the top I grant you, but what the heck slight exaggeration. And what exactly is the effect on our vital body fluids from floride. I do know that we have AIDS now and didn't then. Nuff Said.

BTW member George Schuyler had the civil rights movement pegged properly.

The Dems haven't even gone through their Bob Michel, go-along-to-get-along, natural minority phase. They've still got a long way to go.

Mr. Stamford, I'm sorry I was not clear. The Leftist I am talking about go through life with a barely controlled rage. They hate almost everyone and everything. A lot of 'I hope he dies' and 'I should have gotten him fired'. They see themselves as nice because they don't have the courage to go on the killing sprees they dream of......

1.) Beinart should learn how to spell NASCAR.

2.) He is right that Liberals are dishonest about their agenda. For example, the former Mayor of Vermont just said Democrats are against gay "marriage". No, they're merely against being held accountable for it; they wish for their judges to impose it on us so they can avoid the consequences.

3.) It is intellectually lazy to characterize your opponents as neanderthals--besides, we're Cro-Magnons. And if NASCAR Man is so stupid, how come he sees right through the Cardboard Men like the Victoria's Secret knock-off negligee that he bought for his wife at Wal-Mart?

4.) Liberals want to seize NASCAR Man's paycheck, his guns, his traditions and his children--but he's the "bully"?

5.) Don't blame NASCAR Man, Peter. That's just blame-shifting. Which goes well with the self-delusion, the intellectual laziness, the political cowardice--and the electoral man-bag Democrats wear.

Now hush up; Talladega's comin' on.

Y'all come back when you grow up now...ya' hear?

Can Leftists write or say anything which doesn't include the not so subtle implication that they are better than everyone else?

Andrew, no. To be part of the Left is to see the future.

Noel, Talladega's over 'till fall. Darlington tonight though. Love to listen to Larry and Daryl assassinate the English language. NASCAR man is cool.

Robert,

I do hope you are kidding about the future because that is not a future that I would want. Can you imagine having a nanny like Pelosi telling you what to do and what to believe. That is what the left is trying to do and that is why I cannot ever vote for them.

People immigrated to this country over the past close to 400 years because they wanted the right to make their own decisions. Now we have the left trying to take that away and they wonder why the rest of us do not believe they are the ones who should run the country.

The left thinks that if they let the government decide who should get charity and that it will come from the government so nobody needs to worry about heing charitable. The charities they pick will the ones that keep them in power and none other need apply. It is called buying the vote but they try to pass it off as being compassionate. I can only hope that the country will see it for what it really is and reject it.

I always imagine Beinart getting ready to write by closing his eyes, pounding his fists on his desk and saying to himself "I'm a bad-ass, I'm a bad-ass" again and again.

He then kisses the picture of Michael Kinglsey he wears in a locket around his neck and attacks his next article.

Mr. Dick, thanks for responding. The Left does feel they are the future. That's why they call themselves Progressives, and talk about stages of history. They believe that the Future is unstoppable and must be midwifed. I have never understood that....

I give the article a T for tripe. Apologies to those who like tripe.

jd,

If I were as smart as NASCAR Man, I would have known that. Vrooooommmm!

And Warren should have been impeached.

Mr. Beinart and ilk see history as a road - forward and back. Only two ways to go, regress or progress. They should remember the wise man who said that history is "On g-- d--- thing after another." There is no forward or back - just humans acting as humans.

Robert - If there is no God, then hell is everyone's future. Why not, then, make hell on earth, now?

Not hell, pj, nothingness. They hope for nothingness. Why? I do not know, but Larry and Daryl and the race just started, so I'll spend some time with NASCAR man before church tomorrow. "God bless us, everyone."

I thought you were going for a Larry, Darryl and my other brother Darryl joke.

That's like 3 or 4 jokes in one.

Well, 3 or 4 bad jokes in one.

Gimme a break, I ain't no f$#%%ng comedian, people.

If the revolution can't be stopped and can't be reasoned with, then what need for a midwife?

Pepys, One of us can't spell Daryl. I think it's me. Oh well, maybe Daryll can't either. I think NASCAR man needs to be a regular visitor to this blog. From my long experience of hanging with him, he's a Democrat. I can't see how they lost him. Hope it's true, though.

Marx created the eternel rationale for utopianism. The scientific laws of historical developmnent. A crock, of course, but so is utopia.

It's not external, but is rational.

I wonder if Kenneth Pollack really believes that we walked away from Vietnam WITHOUT repercussions.