Why didn’t anybody point me to this:

http://www.eriposte.com/media/liars_inc/swiftboat.htm

Yeah, that’s why I said that it didn’t seem the “acme of forthrightness.”

But there’s a difference between vitriol and lies. I have little doubt that these Swift Boat Veterans ‘for Truth’ are in fact not actually concerned with truth at all, and are probably lying through their teeth.

Anyone speaking so shrilly as these bozos makes it difficult for me to believe that truth is on their side, but I’d like some evidence so that I know that I’m right.

“Marxist elitist”
“supremacist”
“He has no clue what liberty is.”
“megalomaniac[al]”

Do these sound like honest evaluations of a man’s character, or a smear campaign?

And I haven’t even brought up the ridiculous notion of his “contributing” to the 3 million people “loss” to totalitarianism.

Oh…wait…i just did.

–u.m.

What exactly does Anne Coulter have to do with Tom Mortenson have to do with liberal discourse?

Well, I haven’t seen a “principled conservative argument” since Ike’s administration (and we know that Ann’s favorite era was the Ike era, ’cause Tail-Gunner Joe was running amok then). In fact, most of what passes for “conservatism” these days would have been blasted by the principled conservatices of those days.

Ed

“The Social Democrats, with their unreliable attitude in national questions, always turned against German interests in critical matters affecting the Germans – in order not to alienate the members of the various foreign nationalities.”