Right-Wing Wisdom From The Washington Times

(Don't Mistake the Washington Times for the Washington Post.) Here's an article in the former by Jeffrey T. Kuhner entitled "Obama and the lunatic left: President and his followers intend to end America’s greatness."

Selected quotes:

President Obama is politically insane. This is the real meaning of his speech Thursday night in front of a joint session of Congress. Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. By that definition, Mr. Obama is a lunatic leftist.

Contrary to popular myth, liberalism is not politics committed to science or rational thought. It is a substitute religion - a secular philosophy similar to Marxism that seeks to replace Christianity and provide believers with existential meaning. Hence, it must be defended at all costs, even in the face of irrefutable evidence or logic. Mr. Obama is not an anomaly among progressives. They share his stubbornness. Reassessment is not possible. If Mr. Obama truly were to tack to the center, it would represent a fatal admission of error. The liberal faith would collapse.

"... liberals are now left with only two options: lie about Mr. Obama’s record or engage in dangerous demagoguery. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is more of a cheap propagandist than a serious party spokesperson."

"Mrs. Wasserman Schultz is the equivalent of a Stalinist-era hack jabbering about the Soviet economic miracle. No one believes her -- not even her staunchest supporters."

"Mr. Obama is a man of the hard left. He deeply loathes everything America stands for -- capitalism, limited government, individual freedom and Christian civilization. In particular, he despises our exceptionalism. His stated goal is to create a “post-American world” where the United States is simply one of many countries - no bigger, better or stronger. He exhibits a form of madness, a self-loathing, reminiscent of the late pop singer Amy Winehouse. Mr. Obama keeps injecting the heroin of class warfare and socialism into our national bloodstream. And he can continue to play on the biggest stage and boast a huge audience. In the end, however, it leads to the same result: insanity and death."

Okay, Jeffrey. Thanks for your helpful contribution.

Demonization of your opponent makes cooperation impossible. If Jeffrey's characterization of Obama is correct, how can Republicans possibly come to any compromise with someone who is deranged and anti-American? Of course, they can't. And I think that's a big part of Republican obstructionism. The people who watch Fox News, or who listen to Rush Limbaugh, or Michael Savage, or Glenn Beck, are bombarded 24/7 with this hatred.

If you listen to only one side and come to believe this inflammatory stuff, it's easy to see how you can become radicalized and pressure your elected representatives to resist anything your anti-Christ opponent proposes. (Yes, you can find lefties who commit the same offense, and that's wrong too; but the difference in degree is several orders of magnitude.)