Going to extremes

Watched some of the political shows today -- it's still Sunday as I write this. Anyway, it seems that the dems have developed a new talking point to be repeated over and over and over again, since so few of them are capable of independent thought.

The dems are saying that the spate of conservative Republicans running this November are "extremists." I guess particularly the Tea Party people and those they endorse are covered under this umbrella.

So having begun the day with a good laugh, I'm in a pretty good mood.

Have I lost the "narrative thread" here? I mean, when did it become "extreme" to cut back big government and try to stay on budget? Especially in America. By contrast, I suppose nationalizing the auto industry and seizing control of the financial and health care industries has become the new "normal" under the Comrade's Reign of Terror.

Like, who's extreme here? Let's not lose perspective.

Have the dems actually gone so far over the edge, like lemmings over a cliff, that they forgot what country they live in? For example, Pazzo Pelosi has shown absolutely no kind of economic, moral, or political compass at all; the philosophy she lives by is "Get their vote even if you have to defecate on the Constitution, break a few arms, and terrorize the junior congressional members." It's all OK with her. Pete Stark is a living demonstration of "insufferable arrogance" and Waxman appears to have a Napolean complex. Poor Arlen Specter, 314 years old, just couldn't picture retiring and diligently kissed every available ass just to stay in office. And that didn't work, either.

So I ask again, Who's extreme here? Or are they just pathetic?

On the other hand, I have a book somewhere about the radicalism behind the American Revolution, and how the ideas and concepts upon which the USA is based was then, is now, and always will be radical ideas. Because there will always be the rabid and vicious few -- often heavily armed -- who "know better" than anyone else about how we should all live our lives.

Sorry, but that just looks like an ego problem to me. Seems to me that those people -- the power-mad -- are the crazies. They're basically playground bullies who naturally gravitated toward the bigger arena of politics as they outgrew the swings and the teeter-totter.  Probably the result some deep-seated psychological problem.

And I guess that's the price of knowing how to act like you have self-esteem, rather than actually earning it. Of course, earning anything is contrary to anything the Comrade and his pals envision. However, they may grant you a ration of government cheese or something if you pretend to take them seriously.

But, extreme or not, I'd rather just be free.

Save the Republic.