Angie Harmon isn’t gonna take it anymore:

“Here’s my problem with this, I’m just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama it’s not because I’m a racist, it’s because I don’t like what he’s doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you’re called a racist,” Harmon told Tarts at Thursday’s Los Angeles launch of the new eyelash-growing formula, Latisse. “But it has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he’s doing and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay … I’m still dressing for a recession over here buddy and we’ve got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that’s the thing I really don’t appreciate. If I’m going to disagree with my President, that doesn’t make me a racist. If I was to disagree with W, that doesn’t make me racist. It has nothing to do with it, it is ridiculous.”

Dr. Melissa Clouthier takes note:

I think it’s time to give credit where credit is due. The Left has succeeded in framing every issue morally. Leave your lights on Saturday night? You’re a bad person and don’t care about the environment. Believe that marriage is, by definition, between one man and one woman? You’re a bad, closed-minded person. Believe that people should pay their bills and that includes the government? You’re a bad, judgmental person.

The Left has done an excellent job of vilifying the normal and common sense. I don’t know how we get back to normal. You know, where hard-working, bill-paying, rationally conserving families are viewed as the normal and not framed as freaks.

Commenter Carla brandishes the tried-and-true “everybody’s doin’ it” defense.

The right is just as judgmental. If you don’t believe marriage can exist only between a man and a woman (which as another reader points out, has NOT been the interpretation from the dawn of time) then you’re a bad person. If you’re a man and you love a man in a romantic way, then you’re a bad person (many right-wingers even insinuate that you’re a child molester, just by virtue of your being gay). The judgmental statements propagated by the right are far too numerous to detail here, or ever. Both sides do it to the same degree. You’re not holier than anyone. Pot. Kettle. Black.

I, true to form, kill the thread by putting words to truths so logical, so reasonable, so undeniable, and so complete, that nothing more need be said:

Carla,

Generally speaking, when conservatives pursue an argument of “you’re a bad person because you do (don’t) believe in X” there’s more to it than that. If you’re a bad person because you want to let a child molester out of prison, for example. Or abort a baby. There’s a consequence to doing things other than the way the conservative has in mind; and there’s an innocent who stands to be harmed by this.

Now I’ll grant you, liberals have victims in mind behind their agendas too. But that’s mostly for show, and the agenda is always more important than the victim. Tell a conservative that the baby you want to abort is going to grow up to be a liberal, and that won’t slow down his momentum one bit, because he’s sincere in wanting to defend a helpless human being.

Tell a liberal “Actually Mister Liberal, these poor indigents to whom you want to provide universal healthcare, voted for George W. Bush,” and suddenly this “right” the liberal insists we “all” have is nothing more than a memory.

There are exceptions to all rules — including this one — but overall, you’ll find conservatives are superior at thinking out cause-versus-effect when they say this-thing is good or that-thing is bad. Whereas, liberals are just being bossy.

It’s an entirely different thing to say, “A society in a state of decline, first kills its own babies”; or, “in a culture in which anything goes, ultimately everything does” — versus — “women have a right to choose” or “everyone has a right to vote.” The first two of those are arguments of cause-and-effect; kind of a “you can’t keep your eyes open when you sneeze” thing. When this thing over here happens, whether you realize it or not, that thing over there has to happen. They look like statements of s’poseda and must-must-must and rules-rules-rules to an uncivilized mind that cannot tell the difference. But they’re not.

The last two of those, for example, can easily be set up as a contradiction…which is wonderful fun. “If women have an absolute right to abortions,” I like to say to the pugnacious liberals, “and everyone has an absolute right to have their vote counted…if my state or county is so foolish, oppressive and blatantly unconstitutional to put an abortion ban on the ballot, do I have an absolute right to vote in favor of it?” As I’ve said before: It’s more entertaining than toying with a kitten, with a bit of string or a laser pen. Oh yes, they’ll find something to say about that — but it won’t make any sense.

They’re not thinking. They’re just being bossy.

Old stuff. Good writin’. Smart thoughts, since they echo my own:

I’m only talking about the incurable tendency of liberals to kowtow in awe of “The Other,” as the trendy English professors like to call it. According to academic myth, The Other is supposed to be the scapegoat for one’s own unacceptable side; there is something to that, but for the dominant culture of America today, the truth is exactly the opposite. For liberals, it is The Other who is above criticism, and it’s the in-group — like us folks — who are irredeemably Evil. Why do you think they voted for Obama? To prove to themselves how much better they are. It certainly had nothing to do with the reality of picking a sensible leader for the country. Obama voters are living in a comic strip of their own devising, and it may take a really life-threatening national crisis for them to come down to earth. Just wait for the Iranian or North Korean Bomb, and we’ll see.

The trouble with all that peace and love — which I don’t mind people fantasizing about — is that seems to go along with a real hatred of one’s own. It’s interesting just to ask your nearest liberal friend — “Can you say anything good about America? Anything at all?” — and watch them flounder and stammer.

Hat tip to Maggie’s Farm.