Liberals With Guns

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Posted by tristero on Hullabaloo:

But I seem to be unusually sensitive to Republican rhetorical hanky-panky ("pro-life," "tax relief," etc), and I couldn't help but notice some spanking new jargon bubbling up into the mainstream:

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Are the conservatives turning against the neoconservatives?

They’ve been doing so for some time. Just read George Will. Their complaint is that neoconservatives aren’t conservative; they’re liberals with guns.

You got that? "Democratic transformationalists" are "liberals with guns." Those are the clowns that got us into that stupid mess in Iraq.

In other words, the term "conservative" has been surgically removed from the failed ideology of neoconservativism and replaced with the word "democratic." This of course is purely coincidental, no associations to a certain political party should be inferred.

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But never mind, as so many expert Democratic consultants are quick to tell us, it's not the language that matters, but the ideas. I mean it's not as if you can easily redefine failed Republican strategies as liberal and Democratic, y'know. That's preposterous. No one would fall for that and repeat it. LIke if you tried, people would just get confused about what things mean and then they wouldn't listen to anyone. What good would that be?

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2005_10_23_digbysblog_archive.html#113014884892861612

[MrBenchley]

1. Wow....good thing they're not really desperate or anything....

It's been hilarious the last few weeks having George Will tell us how disappointed he is with the corrupt drunk he once claimed was the "next Churchill"....

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2. I gather tristero's position is that it might work.

We might wake up one morning to articles about how it was obviously the Democrats, those "liberals with guns," who are responsible for this ridiculous war in Iraq, government corruption, etc. The new conventional wisdom, which everyone will accept without question.

[MrBenchley]

3. I sincerely doubt that....

Right wing loonies have been trying for a while now to blame Chimpy's war on everybody else...and I don't think anyone's buying it.

One wonders how true believers avoid whiplash from the sudden changes in direction they get from the Himmler wannabes..."Liberals don't want America to go to war...no wait, liberals made us go to war."