Now you are just lying.

Also, all race cards expired on January 20, 2009. Scream racist all you want. It’s a lie and you know it.

Lies, lies, lies, Levi. That’s all you’ve got. You do not deserve any more of my time.

Cynthia

P.S.

To my gentle readers: I’ve done a little research on Levi and it turns out he is a freshman in college — or will be in September — and his hobby is spamming blogs.

Well, if I’m comprehending your story of how you were lured to conservatism, it’s true that it occurred during the Bush years, so I’m not sure why you’re complaining that I’m misrepresenting something about you.

Anyway, you’re really tipping your hand with that ridiculous list of Obama’s ‘constituencies.’ It’s a little jarring to see all that racism out in the open like that again. I’d forgotten how so much of the conservative reaction to Obama’s candidacy was couched in poorly disguised racism. I’d love to see you expound on this – why exactly are you worried about Obama’s Muslim constituency? Is he specifically catering to them? You seem awfully sure that you’ve been vindicated in your fears about his alleged black liberation theology, but what are you referring to exactly? Do you think he’s boosting these minorities at the expense of white people?

My impression of you when I saw you participate in a Q&A at CPAC was that you were a racist, I guess it had slipped my mind. It’s no wonder you find yourself fitting in with conservatism as well as you have. The rest of your rant is riddled with factual errors and panicky propaganda points; Obama isn’t raising taxes on poor people. From where are you pulling that? You want to complain about taxes? How about getting mad at the billionaires and corporations that profited tremendously by engineering the economic collapse who end up paying effective tax rates of 1 and 2 percent?

I don’t think your research is even remotely comprehensive enough, and I think most of your distaste for Obama stems from his being black. But please, if you’ve got some proof that he’s some kind of secret Black Panther or something, do tell.

Cynthia,
The obvious hatred and double-speak you encountered during the fall election cycle happened with a LOT of my supposedly liberal friends. Long story short, most of them discovered that they were classical liberals, more in the way of JFK, and therefore, conservative by today’s standards. People don’t realize historic origins of these terms (liberal, conservative, progressive, etc) and negative conotations therein. For example, liberals tried to re-brand themselves as “progressive” because that sounds so much better, right? What they don’t know or were never taught (or don’t care about, let’s be honest) is that progressives were behind the wonderful idea of eugenics, or the forced sterilization of children deemed ‘inferior” by those nifty progressives. That’s just one example of how ignorant modern liberals are about their own history. And, of course, another shiny example of how liberals stand up for the little guy. See, Levi, “liberals standing up for the little guy” would be a better example of irony. It’s an absolute contradiction, a lie if you will, and a funny one at that. Irony.

Was your post gobbled up here, or somewhere else? If here, I don’t know what would cause that. One option is to compose your comment in a text editor like WordPad, then paste it in. You can save the file as you’re working on it. I do that sometimes at other blogs when I’m commenting.

Also, yes, and I’m sure the lesbian community would poll twice as large as it does now if lesbians were nicer to feminine lesbians. I thought I was in accord with the community values of inclusion when I started my group for feminine lesbians in the late 1980′s. I didn’t try to make anyone else wrong or highjack another group. I added mine. And women throughout the D.C. area went crazy and literally discussed in their rap groups whether my group should be allowed to exist. They seemed to believe that if my group was allowed to exist, somehow THEY would be forced to wear feminine clothes they didn’t want to wear because somehow we had to do everything the same for solidarity, or whatever, because it was so nuts I never made sense of it. I mean, get some boundaries, people! It took years before I could finally accept that the lesbian community had one set of values for show and a totalitarian set that it actually used. It was just like Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Last year I realized that liberalism has a large and strong totalitarian group in it, so it was totalitarian liberalism I was dealing with, not just totalitarian feminism.

Thank you for your contributions.

Cynthia

OK, Levi, at this point I just have to come out and say you have a comprehension problem because you make up things that aren’t there, then attack them. You really have no idea what you talking about because you obviously have not researched Obama by any other method than believing every word he says. I’ve done considerably more research on his background and ever-shifting positions, so you just are not prepared for this discussion. Other than making up things that you then attribute to me so you can attack them, or your supercilious scorn which you try to sell as genuine superiority in the hope that I am insecure and foolish and will buy your act — which is one of Obama’s favorite ploys — you really bring nothing to the table.

I was not “lured to conservatism during the Bush years.” Last spring I knew I would never support Obama because he could not please his Black Liberation Theology, illegal immigrant and Muslim constituencies AND support homosexual equality. I believed he was lying. It turns out I was correct. The brief the Obama administration filed in support of the Defense of Marriage Act, which he had pledged to get Congress to repeal, was totally devastating and a complete and utter betrayal. He has done nothing to get “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repealed and over 250 members of our armed forces have been thrown out for homosexuality SINCE HE BECAME PRESIDENT. Even after Obama stole the nomination — research the Florida and Michigan primaries — I pinned my hopes on Hillary because I thought she really would come around and support homosexuality equality. I hoped there would be a PUMA coup at the Democratic Convention and Hillary would be nominated instead of Obama. Obama’s last chance to get my support — wretching and gagging — was to choose Hillary as his running mate. When he chose Biden, he lost me. Then McCain immediately announced his VP choice was Gov. Palin.

I liked Sarah Palin from the moment in her first speech with Sen. McCain when she thanked Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton for their achievements for women — she thanked Democrats in her first national speech as John McCain’s selection as his running mate. This takes majesty of soul. And Rep. Ferraro said Gov. Palin was the FIRST person EVER to thank her for her achievements, including being the first female candidate for vice president. I also loved Gov. Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention. When she spoke, she got my enthusiastic vote. However, I thought I would have to explain my support of McCain/Palin to my Democratic friends, plus I got into an e-mail argument with one who sent me one of the lie-filled poison e-mails that feminists were sending around. As a result, I had to do my homework to be able to explain my positions to my friends (all but a few had Palin Derangement Syndrome and were unwilling to hear anything spoken against Obama or in favor of Gov. Palin). So, at the beginning of September 2008, Googling for info led me to Michelle Malkin and her blog then was my launching point into the Right blogosphere.

What shocked me in September and October of 2008 was how uninformed and unexamined my liberal opinions were, even though I had followed the news and read many op-ed columnists regularly since I was a teen-ager and had been a political reporter for two years. I now say I didn’t understand conservatism until the fall of 2008 because George Will was explaining it to me.

As I was doing my research for my e-mail argument, I read a piece in American Thinker about how much people of average income paid in taxes under Bush, and how much more they would pay under Obama (Obama doesn’t count as one of his tax increases on people making less than $250,000 per year his plan of allowing the Bush tax cuts to lapse, even though this means that everyone will have their taxes go up when that happens — the poor will have the worst of it because the lowest tax rate will shoot up from 10 percent to 15 percent. Obama also promised to raise the ceiling on FICA taxes above $105,000, which represents a significantly higher tax burden for people in the $105,001 range and up.)

What I realized was that the federal, state and local governments already can get 50 percent or more of your income in taxes, to say nothing of government fees like car registrations and tunnel tolls. This doesn’t leave a lot to live on, let alone pay for an education, or start a business, or give to the charities of your choice. I’m an entrepreneur, so when I realized I could be a fiscal conservative — keep taxes low, don’t punish businesses, keep government small, etc. — without being a social conservative, that won me over. As an entrepreneur, I need for conservatives to be running the government so I get to keep enough of my money (as my career resumes, I live with my father and take care of him now) to be able to start and grow my own business. I’m also sure the government would not like the same charities that I do, so I want to keep enough of my money to be able to afford to give to the ones I support.

So, the process of becoming a conservative started in late August 2008 and was complete by mid-October 2008 and was due to over 100 hours of avid research. That means it did not happen in “the Bush years.” It happened in the last few Bush months.

By the way, if you were doing more research, you would know that conservatives do not consider George W. Bush to be a true conservative and they are irritated with him for tarnishing the brand.

I had written a lengthy post discussing female anger at Sarah Palin. Unfortunately, the submit button helped to gobble it. As soon as I finish wading through end of semester paperwork (endless reports, fer cryin’ out loud!) I’ll do a rewrite and repost.

Levi refuses to understand that Sarah Palin’s resignation is integral to her political philosophy. (Palin is a Bush-type politician in this respect: she won’t die without politics.) Palin campaigned on a reformist agenda of fiscal sobriety, amongst other things. When the bill for spurious ethics charges and other legal gnat-bites rose to $2,000,000 for the state of Alaska, the woman did what any honest politician packing a pair would do: resign. In this Obama-created economic climate, it would be fiscally irresponsible of her to remain in office while state resources are consumed by harassments of nithings, gnats, and gadflies.

Levi, women DO have a sense of honor. We DO have invisible balls. Palin’s is damn sure bigger than Obama’s actual pair. When you understand conservative political philosophy then you’ll realize it is not about personal power for the individual but about the welfare and well-being of the body politic. You ‘re a Democrat, so that makes no sense to you at all.

To attract more people than Sarah Palin did by herself, as I recall, Barack Obama had to book rock bands for his appearances, even with his two-year head start, didn’t he? And I have photos that friends took when Joe Biden came to speak during the campaign — there were only a few dozen people in a very bored looking crowd. And isn’t it funny that we ALWAYS compare Gov. Palin NOT to her counterpart on the Democratic ticket, Joe Biden, but always to Barack Obama, the presidential candidate. That alone tells you people see her as president.

My own experience of liberalism when I tried to cash in the promise of wheelchair access and inclusion for my life partner was so much cruelty directed toward us over the course of my six-year campaign for our temerity that we had to stop going to lesbian events because I didn’t think she’d be physically safe from attack. The Washington Blade actually published a column demanding that we be run out of the community. The women I lobbied were at the top of the disability rights movement — they knew perfectly well what they were supposed to do, they just didn’t want to make the extra effort. Or, it is possible that this was payback for my heresy — the lesbian community was furious with me for founding a group for feminine/non-femme lesbians. (Feminine lesbians prefer another feminine lesbian partner — a femme lesbian prefers a more masculine, or butch, partner.) So totalitarian liberalism is not an abstraction to me.

Eric Hoffer’s book The True Believer does describe what we are going through now — which is not the same thing as saying that it describes American liberalism before the Obama era. It is Jonah Goldberg who makes the case that liberals are the real fascists — because they want to force everyone to think and act the same way — in his book, Liberal Fascism. This country is very much in peril of becoming a totalitarian state under president-for-life Obama. I think he is deliberately bringing down the U.S. from within with debt bombs and tax bombs. They work slowly, but are extremely deadly. They are Obama’s fire in the Reichstag and Enabling Act.

Regarding conservative core beliefs, to my surprise, I find that conservatism is a very large tent that includes people who do have irreconcilable differences — for example, Tammy Bruce and I are both pro-choice conservatives, while most social conservatives are pro-life. I have been accepted in the right blogosphere and mentored and helped by bloggers who disagree with me about gay marriage. I would never expect this to happen with liberals. I would be shunned! There’s no such thing as blind acceptance in conservatism — it really is the ideological place to be for pioneers, entrepreneurs and rugged individualists.

Another characteristic that shows there’s no blind acceptance by conservatives of pretty much anything, is that conservative writers attack people on their own side more frequently and viciously than I observe liberals to do. For example, Jonah Goldberg and Charles Krauthammer both went after Gov. Palin in the few days before she resigned, and both had objections that were unfounded to the point of being insane: they attacked her experience, when she had the largest amount of the most relevant experience for being president of all four candidates in the fall 2008 presidential campaign. Obama could not remember the committees he served on in the Senate and I doubt he’s been there often enough to be able to find his old office. Obama welcomed an audience in Pennsylvania to “New Pennsylvania,” for crying out loud and he was totally serious about the U.S. having 57 states. He can’t remember the name of his secretary of defense! He can’t speak extemporaneously to save his life! He lacks intellectual curiosity and intellectual rigor in the examination of ideas. He is extremely rigid. His intellect is pedestrian. He is a third-generation Communist who has never strayed from the orthodoxy he learned at his mother’s knee. The only real skills he has are seduction, deception, bullying, getting other people to do his homework and taking the credit for other people’s achievements. (I gather you don’t know how his state senate record came from the achievements of others that were appropriated for him by his mentor/kingmaker. Also, go ahead — name Obama’s achievements while he was in the U.S. Senate. I would LOVE to see the interview where he has to describe his last job, namely, to explain how legislation is introduced and eventually becomes law. I also would LOVE to be the reporter who gets a frowny, serious face and asks him if he believes the District of Columbia should be the next state to join the union as the 52nd state.)

Or, since you are so broad-minded, name at least 10 achievements of Gov. Palin in her political career. Because I believe you are criticizing her without having really looked at her record. You have to do better than just continuing to harp on some “gotcha” interviews, especially when Obama has only been tossed softballs and whenever he does make a gaffe the press assiduously drops it down the memory hole.

Finally, Levi, I haven’t been trying to persuade you of anything. I’ve only been setting the record straight so others are not taken in by your specious objections to Gov. Palin.

Cynthia