Let the Truth Ring Out

Before I get to the point of this post, here are two items of interest...
From Statesman.com:

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter cut short a speech at the University of Connecticut amid boos and jeers, and decided to hold a question-and-answer session instead...It wasn't the first time Coulter has had trouble at a university speech. In October 2004, two men ran onstage and threw custard pies as she was giving a speech at the University of Arizona.

And from CNN's Larry King Live...

King : All right, Dennis...

PRAGER: I've always wanted to ask the sister a question. Do you feel that Israel was immoral when it executed Adolph Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust, responsible for the death of a million Jews?

PREJEAN: There is no comparison between the Holocaust and killing six million people. In the United States of America...

PRAGER: So you're not against this.

KING: Let her finish.

PREJEAN: ...which has the constitution, which is supposed to assure due process, and equal justice under law. We don't have to do the death penalty. And, in fact, if you look at it we are shutting the death penalty down in the United States. There is less than half the death sentences now that we had four years ago.

PRAGER: But I didn't get a response. This is a big thing on your show, sister, do you think that it was moral to execute Adolph Eichmann?

PREJEAN: All I want to say is when you draw up Hitler or Eichmann, you're dealing with something of such gravity--we don't have to kill people in the United States we have prisons.

PRAGER: They didn't have to kill Eichmann.

PREJEAN: And Tookie Williams is an example of why we don't have to kill people.

KING: All right. Sister.
PREJEAN: So making your comparison does not apply to the United States.

PRAGER: So if you murder one you should live, but if you murder a million you should die.

KING: Thank you, sister

Ok, so what do these two events have in common?
Well, let us look a little closer at each example.
Story one points to the lie, so often repeated, that Lefties care about free speech. Unfortunately, it seems, they believe only in the freedom of Left leaning speech. Any ideas or speakers who oppose or attack Progressive ideology are at best, protested and shouted down; or at worst, physically attacked. How can not allowing Conservative thought or speakers to be heard be in any way described as a belief in freedom of speech? Here’s how, it can’t.
Story two demonstrates an event that occurs so often that I believe its point is missed more often now than it is even noticed. And that is the Lefty who will not answer the question posed of him/her. Who will simply ignore a question whose answer he/she fears will show his/her true ideology and/or feelings. He/she either understands 1) that his/her thoughts on the issue are so far out of the main stream that he/she will be seen as a fool, 2) that his/her stances can not stand the brunt of intelligent debate, or 3) that to honestly answer the question would surely illuminate his/her true thoughts, feelings, and agenda. Think about this last point for a moment... the Liberal can not espouse his/her true thoughts and ideas. One of the great things about being a Conservative, as I see it, is that I can say exactly what I think and feel, as these things are based in common sense and do not cause me to engage in mental and linguistic gymnastics.
So let's get to the point of this post.
The following statement should explain, I believe, just what the above two issues have in common. Modern Liberals are terrified to let intelligent Conservatives get their true thoughts and ideas out into the realm of open debate, whereas intelligent Conservatives would love for modern Liberals to actually espouse their true thoughts, ideas, and feelings in any debate. Modern Liberals fear the truth of Conservative thought, Conservatives would just love the truth of modern Liberalism exposed.
In that light, the following are a few examples of the rare times the Libs let their guard down enough for this to actually happen...

Here's Richard Daley, Democratic Mayor of Chicago on a smoking ban in restaurants and bars...
'“If it's the right thing to do, why don't restaurants do it today? Very interesting. It's called greed. They want to make money,” said Mayor Richard Daley.'

From Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on his back door funding of stem cell research...
"While we are forced to live in a democracy with several branches of government, sometimes in a democracy the process is frustratingly slow."

How about the esteemed Walter Cronkite's take on democracy...
"We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable I do not think the majority of our people of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger."

And Mr. John F. Kerry Democratic Senator from Massachusetts on his view of the American military...
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women..."

Democratic Chairman Howard Dean with his thoughts on American strength...
"The idea that we're going to win this war is just plain wrong."

And this on his tolerance and compassion for differing ideas...
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for..."

How 'bout this from Patty Murray, Democratic Senator from Washington state, on why terrorists are better than Americans...
"He's (Osama bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."

And from Democratic Senator from New York, Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton, on what true feminism consists of...
"They went to school; they participated in the professions, they participated in the government and business and, as long as they stayed out of [Saddam's] way, they had considerable freedom of movement."


From Robin Morgan, editor of MS. Magazine on the politics of the ‘oppressed’...
"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."

And lastly, we have Nancy Soderberg, a member of Clinton's National Security Council on the possibility of a positive outcome in Iraq...
"Well, there's still Iran and North Korea, don't forget. There's still hope for the rest of us . . . . There's always hope that this might not work."

Ah, the sweet sound of honesty. Let the truth ring out.

Crossposted @ The Wide Awakes