Steve Newton I Love You in a Manly sort of way but…
Nov 3rd, 2009 by David Anderson
I take issue with your taking issue with a couple of my posts and Mr. Knotts. I tend to avoid giving traffic and dignity to petty tifts in the blogging world, but I do not view you as either petty or shrill. If you have a concern, it is worth addressing because some other reasonable person has it.
I am naturally entertained that you take issue with the post decrying Commie Lib Republican Dede Brutus for being too left on the issues to be a leader of the conservative political party in America. Yet, you take a much more extreme point of view calling for government action against a church for living its doctrine. You, who call for removing the tax exemption of the Catholic Church in Maine because they collected voluntary contributions to defend marriage which were less than the 5% of their annual budget–the amount allowed under law before they become taxable if used for issue advocacy, wants to keep us from being divisive. It is funny, but we all do it.
The reason I choose Commie Lib was not to red bait. It was to illustrate that her pro-card check, anti-marriage, big government, abortion funding , and votes for higher taxes and more spending mirrored the agenda of the Democratic Left publication not that of the Republican Party. She was endorsed by a socialist leaning workers political party. The Communist Party USA holds many of the same positions as well as the Socialist Workers Party. Commie Lib may be tongue in cheek, but it is meant to catch attention and spur thought about what is it we are trying to achieve? It worked. The article was number 2 on bing and in the top 10 on google under reaction to Scozzfava withdrawal, and upped traffic to the site by 33%. The purpose was to provoke thought not launch the new McCarthy Purges or something. If it offended a couple of liberals in the process, that is a bonus.
I respect people who are honest about their beliefs. I do not respect people who work to undermine you from the inside like Assemblywoman Dede Brutus–commie lib NY. I save my ridicule for them.
I love Noman, Perry, Nancy, and Pandora to name a few. They and millions of Liberals like them (some friends and family) are not unanmerican and I reject you putting those type of words in my mouth. They are just folks trying to make this a better world just like I am. They are passionate about their beliefs. They sometimes get personal, but I never take it that way. Even on your site, it was said that I was a bigot because I unflinchingly favor traditional marriage and reject pretend definitions of marriage that include same sex couples. Did I go into some tirade about the leftward slide of intollerance drowning Delaware Libertarian? I went on your site and defended my position and let it be. I never once used the term unamerican. I said a candidate advancing an agenda of certain policies is anathema to the America I love. It is not about people, but policy.
I believe in the vision of America that Whitherspoon, Adams, Adams, Franklin, and Madison set out. It is one of a free people not dominated by an oppressive state. It is one where government is limited. Here is where you and I tend to part ways. It is one based upon the foundations of the Judeo Chrisitan culture. The institutions of family and enterprise are the building blocks of a successful society. Government is to protect those institutions and the individuals who create them not attack those institutitions. When government attacks business, the family, and rugged individualism then it is no longer our guardian, it is an obstacle or if it takes those actions to the extreme our enemy. They way to overcome it is political action. You do not overcome it by electing people who will take you in the opposite direction.
What we are doing is waking up the populace by highlighting what the ruling regime in Washington, Delaware, and around the region are doing. Right now the entire Mid Atlantic from NY to VA is goverened by those who believe government should fix and remake businesses, the family, and the individual. You are too fat or too slim. You are too religious. Marriage is too hetero. You take too much pain medication. You keep too much of your own money. You use too much energy. I want to see that change. Over the past 3 months our readership in NY, PA, NJ, and VA has increased 80% or more many days they are almost 40% of our readership. There is a market for our message and today the majority of voters in NJ and VA will move to break the stranglehold. I hope Jersey doesn’t split too badly and let Gov. Corzine back, but the fact the majority even in Blue state NJ and maybe upstate NY wants freedom and tradition says something. It says that the liberals are harming our interests. They are harming America and we have to stop it. If that makes someone feel badly, I am sorry, but the harm being done to the next generation with the crushing debt and the crushing of marriage is worth more than your self esteeme.
I love you too, Dave. ! We all get called out sometimes.
That is what makes the local sphere so interesting. I looked at other states and they don’t even care about each other.
We have something unique.
David,
You carefully ignored the information on (a) the Church continuing to pay an employee supposedly on leave to work with the campaign; and (b) that same employee insisting that contributions were not coming out of collections while parish officials admitted they were.
But that’s ok.
As far as taking you out of context, that’s up to readers to decide. Your use of the term “anathema” is important: you would impose a specific set of values and argue them as historical fact: witness your repeatedly asserted and historically bankrupt statement that all societies have valued exactly the same male-female form of marriage and that is therefore somehow proven to be the best idea.
That’s all well and good, but what are you going to do with your Christianist leanings with the growing percentage (now up 10-15%) of Americans who are atheists? By your definition they can’t be conservatives, since politically conservative requires a Judeo-Christian background.
As for whether you intended “red-baiting” or not, you did it. Plain and simple, you attacked a member of your own political party in those terms because she didn’t agree with you. It is perhaps more vile because you refuse to take responsibility when called on it.
Personally, I have always been a fan of Carl Mcintire and Col. Domer so red baiting wouldn’t bother me anyway. It’s the reds that bother me. She is no more a Republican than the next commie lib and I would appreciate it if she made it official like she is hinting. The party is stronger without a 5th column. That is all I am saying.