THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VII, Issue # 156, July 21, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
PAUL BEGALA EPITOMIZES THE HYSTERICAL POLITICAL LEFT
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS' CHOSEN POLITICAL STRATEGY: OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS, HYSTERICAL NAME-CALLING,
SHRILL ALLEGATIONS, & MALICIOUS PREVARACATIONS AS THE USUAL PROPAGANDA DISSEMINATED BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
LEADERS & THEIR ALLIES IN THE LIBERAL LEFTIST MEDIA -- THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS' RELIANCE UPON THE FORCE OF
NASTINESS & VENOM IN THEIR ENDEAVOR TO OVERWHELM DEBATE & CONCEAL OR GROSSLY MISREPRESENT THE MESSAGE OF
THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS
FULL STORY:
Anyone who still clings to the absurd notion that the war on Islamic terrorism can be fought in the manner of past wars is either
naive or criminally ignorant of the situation in which America presently finds itself. Treaties, truces, and conventions are neither
strategic tools nor effective weapons when confronting the fanaticism that drives militant Islamists.
Likewise, Republicans and Conservatives who believe that the political issues presently facing our country can be solved through
reasoned discourse and compromise between or among the opposing political parties, interests, and philosophies are simply out
of touch with reality. Any doubts that this is indeed the case can be quickly laid to rest, in light of recent statements from Paul
Begala, formerly a key political strategist in the Clinton administration.
Throughout the Clinton years, Begala worked in concert with “hatchet man” James Carville. Neither Begala nor Carville has ever
done an honest, respectable job of intellectually promoting the Democrats' Liberal Leftist political and social agenda, since their
chosen political strategy never required them to do so. Instead, it has been the sheer force of the nastiness and venom in their
propaganda that the Liberal Democrats have relied upon in their endeavor to overwhelm debate and conceal or grossly misrepresent
the message of their political opposition. Apparently, Begala is still at it.
At a recent gathering of the “Campus Progress National Student Conference” in Washington D.C., Begala actually asserted that
Republicans seek to kill Americans. In an almost surreal statement referencing to 9-11, he began:
“I was driving past the Pentagon when that plane hit. I had friends on that
plane; this is deadly serious to me.”
But then, in a virtually seamless transition, he asserted:
“They want to kill me and my children, if they can. But if they just kill me and
not my children, they want my children to be comforted -- that, while they didn’t
protect me because they cut my taxes, my children won’t have to pay any taxes
on the money they inherit.”
It is noteworthy that, in his bizarre ramblings, he completely blurred any distinction between al-Qa'ida terrorists who slaughtered
three thousand innocent people, and Republicans who managed to implement a meager tax cut for Americans.
Actually, such mindless rhetoric has long been a staple of those on the political Left. At the first sign of Conservative opposition,
Liberals immediately respond with epithets of “Fascist” and “Nazi,” as if the application of these labels truly buttresses their case.
The true nature of the tyrannical political regimes that bore these labels during the 1930s and early 1940s is altogether irrelevant to
Liberals, who refuse to seriously ponder the iron-fisted roles of those regimes in the lives of their respective peoples, and how the
efforts of Fascists and Nazis at “thought control” and intimidation and suppression of dissent were far more reflective of the
Liberals' concept “political correctness” than of any attempts by Conservatives to intellectually prevail.
Instead, it is enough for Leftists to hurl hysterical accusations, always gambling that their loyal following will not seek to learn the
reality behind such rhetoric. And, for the most part, they have been right to make this assumption, especially during recent decades,
when the Liberal Left held a virtual monopoly on the dissemination of information.
Now, however, mainstream America gravitates away from the Liberal media and towards alternative sources of news and analysis.
But Liberal Democrats remain acutely aware that, if they are to have any hope of retaining the loyalty of their “political base,” they
must continue to fan the flames of radicalism that brought them political dominance during the 1960’s and thereafter.
So, to this day, the same mantras, the same name-calling, and the same denials of reality are regularly invoked as the core of their
political strategy.
Furthermore, it should not be assumed that individuals like Begala represent only the extreme Liberal Leftist “fringe.” At the very
same event where he peddled his venomous diatribe, another noteworthy speaker was Bill Clinton himself. While both Bill and
Hillary Clinton seek, at times, to portray themselves as “Centrist,” or "Moderate," Democrats, neither of the Clintons is the least bit
uncomfortable revealing his or her truly radical bent and ultra-Liberal ideology at gatherings of this nature.
It must be clearly understood that Paul Begala is not the source of a problem within Democratic Party circles, but is, instead, an
outward symptom of the true nature of the Democratic Party and its leadership. Begala's outrageous and hysterical statements are
a reflection of the usual propaganda disseminated by Democratic Party leaders and their allies in the Liberal Leftist media. Amid
similarly shrill allegations, for example, the Democratic Party/media cabal grossly exaggerated the fabricated crimes of Karl Rove
and the alleged misdeeds of Tom Delay.
Meanwhile, the same people regularly turn a blind eye to the horrendous security breaches of former Assistant Attorney General
Jamie Gorelick and former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, among others.
If Democrats can keep Republicans on the defensive, they consider themselves victorious. And they remain indifferent to the
resulting moral boost this continually gives the terrorists. Apparently, the endangerment of America is an acceptable risk, when the
Democratic Party’s political future is at stake.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Politics & Political Competition
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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