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February 22, 2007

Whipping the slaves

I've been a little too overwhelmed with real life the last day or so and haven't had time to dive back into the Quando(O)scandal.

The vast majority of the comments from the Quando(O)-ites were hot air laden defenses of their boy McQ. But one paragraph by commentor Bryan Pick did stand out for me:

(Quick note: we're quite skeptical of Republicans, particularly when they're the majority. We may often "lean" right, but QandO was a finalist for Best Centrist Blog in the Weblog Awards last year, and our skepticism of government in general often leads us to take positions against ruling Republicans. So please don't call us "wingers," implying we're slaves to the right wing.)

Centrist? Seriously? Little did Bryan know he'd be hitting on one of my key themes. I've played this harp over and over.

Centrism doesn't exist. Its an excuse for people who like to think of themselves as in the "middle" to tell the rest of us who know we aren't that we're causing the fall of modern civilization. And even if it was an appropriate label for a smack dab in the middle political point of view, anyone who still supports the War In Iraq doesn't qualify for it.

One of the commentors (I forget who) made the point that McQ isn't a goose stepping Bushie because he's criticized Bush's stance on torture. That's like saying someone who constantly runs old people down in traffic is a good driver because they didn't hit the little kids. Please.

I tire of conservatives trying to remind me that they're "skeptical of government" while supporting it running roughshod over their civil liberties and working counter to what the people say they want. All the while trying to put themselves up as "centrists"--as if the ideological political middle could have anything at all to do with ending the Constitution.

Further, there is no way to objectively look at any aspect of the Iraq War: from troops to funding, from the misleading intelligence to the fact that the vast majority of Iraqis want us out, and see this as something that should continue to be supported. And yes, in my view, that makes one a slave to the rightwing.

Posted by Carla at February 22, 2007 04:36 PM