Hillary's Base Undermines American Values
-
http://www.newsmax.com/limbaugh/hillary_democrats/2007/11/20/50836.html
Hillary's Base Undermines American Values
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
By: David Limbaugh
If you want to gain greater insight into the mindset of much of Hillary
Clinton's base — the type of people she caters to, and will continue to cater
to if she is elected — you should familiarize yourselves with a couple of
recent news stories involving the Boy Scouts and our troops.
In Philadelphia, the glorious city where our unique experiment in
constitutional governance began, the city solicitor issued the Cradle of
Liberty Boy Scouts Council a dire ultimatum. Unless it renounces its policy
excluding homosexuals by Dec. 3, it will forfeit the right to rent from the
city a building it has rented for $1 a year since 1928.
Solicitor Romulo Diaz said, "While we respect the right of the Boy Scouts to
prohibit participation in its activities by homosexuals, we will not subsidize
that discrimination by passing on the costs to the people of Philadelphia."
The solicitor apparently doesn't care that the Supreme Court has ruled that
the Scouts have a right to exclude homosexuals or that Congress passed a law
two years ago — the Support Our Scouts Act — to restrict the right of cities
to deny Scouts access to public facilities because of their policy.
Gay-rights advocates often insist on rights going one way: their way. They
demand that homosexuals be permitted "the right" to join the Scouts, though it
would deny this private organization its constitutional right of free
association and what values it chooses to uphold.
Meanwhile, Cambridge, Mass., the proud home of Harvard University, fired a
shot at both the Boy Scouts and the United States armed forces. The city put
the kibosh on Cambridge Troop 45's innocuous Election Day drive to collect
care packages for American soldiers in Iraq because it was "political."
The Scouts had placed donation boxes at the city's 33 polling stations, hoping
to receive donations of toiletries, magazines, candy, and other goodies to
send to our troops in Iraq. Scout Patrick O'Connor, whose relative was injured
in an IED explosion in Iraq, devised the plan to "make a lot of troops happy."
But some obviously not so happy or compassionate liberal complained that the
donation boxes were a "political statement," which resulted in their removal.
O'Connor said he "was devastated that someone would" remove the boxes. Troop
committee Chairman Jamisean Patterson said, "This was not supporting the war
or any politician or political view. This was supporting the brave men and
women who are stationed overseas."
For years, we have listened to the left's preposterous and counterintuitive
argument that they support the troops while opposing their mission in Iraq and
lauding Democratic politicians who brand them as losers, torturers and
rapists, and murderers of "hundreds of thousands" of innocent Iraqi civilians.
We've watched with incredulity and disgust as certain celebrated congressional
representatives maliciously and wrongly pronounced Marines guilty of murdering
Iraqis before any evidence was presented. We've endured the left's venerated
senators recklessly comparing Guantanamo prison to the Soviet Gulags and
indicting our entire military for the renegade acts of few in humiliating
enemy prisoners at Abu Ghraib, saying Saddam's prison was open under new
management.
Liberals are always complaining about President Bush and other Republicans
"politicizing the war." But only liberals could think that sending care
packages to soldiers putting their lives on the lives for our freedom is a
political statement.
Only leftist journalists could think that wearing a flag lapel pin is an
unacceptable statement of bias. Only they could think that outward expressions
of love of country during time of war has political connotations and
compromises their professionalism.
They can only view it in political terms, through their perverse antiwar
lenses. I dare say the overwhelming majority of Americans would think that
such demonstrations of support for America should be instinctive,
uncontroversial and unquestionable.
Sadly, many of these antiwar leftists can't separate their rabid political
opposition to the war from the humane and decent provision of comfort and
supplies to our troops. Trust me: Many of them have contempt for the troops
because they are the agents who are implementing the tasks and missions they
hate.
Depending on what audiences they're in front of, Democrats will doubtlessly
tell you that the actions against the Boy Scouts and troops detailed here are
only supported by fringe elements in their party, but you know better. These
are just a few examples that illustrate the kind of constituencies to which
Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democrats pander and the kind of America they
would try to achieve if they regain power of the executive branch.
If they're not afraid to target the Boy Scouts and our brave soldiers, apple
pie better be keeping a sharp eye.
David Limbaugh is a writer, author and attorney. His book "Bankrupt: The
Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party" (Regnery) was
just released in paperback. To find out more about David Limbaugh, please
visit his Web site at www.davidlimbaugh.com.
2007 Creator's Syndicate Inc.
2007 Newsmax.com
Freedom Fighter
FREEDOM is such a value, and that includes the freedom of consenting adults
to do as they wish as long as no one is harmed.
mordacp...@hotmail.com
That's what the conservative controlled Supreme Court said when they
threw out Texas' sodomy law.