Residual Forces

I may not be the best Catholic. Heck I may not have even been to Church since my Pastor told me to call my Legislator and ask them to raise my taxes, but I still believe in God, and my faith. If you doubt my Catholic-creds, rest assured, I spent 8 years in the nun run confines of the New Brighton Catholic school that was closed down for a Mercury spill this week.

I thought that the recent netstory of how Democratic Presidential candidate John ‘Tax their arses off for health care’ Edwards fired two anti-cathoilc bigots was a pretty cut and dry event.

Well, I was wrong. I didn’t follow the story one bit, because the hate and venom that I read on Mitch’s blog this morning is my stereotypical idea of how big time lefty bloggers actually think of the Christian right. They hate us, and usually spend their blog time trying to prove it. Vulgarity is the norm. It seems to just be the digital image of their reality based self. The rebellious daughter who is, well, a whore to get back at daddy for not buying her that pony, the gigolo trying to be hipper/weirder than his pops or big brother was, and such.

In the real world they lead risky and questionable lives in order to prove themselves anarchist to their upbringing or religion in general, or to draw attention to themselves. I used to be the died hair earring wearing, baggy clothed guy, but I left it at that. Since the advent of the blogs, their behavior has gone online. Pro-abortion, pro-promiscuity, pro-gay marriage, pro-whatever you want to call it has found a digital home and delivery vehicle.

You can call me a bad Catholic for never really wanting to go down that road. Sure I dabbled in it now and then on the marriage issue, but I could really care less what people do in their bedroom, but when it comes to the public square, I jumped in. I guess I never pushed religion here because it I just never wanted to deal with the anti-religion zealots and fever-swampers.

John Edwards hired a couple of well known lefty bloggers to help his netroots outreach. (and honestly I had never heard of them, because I don’t read too many lefty blogs, especially the national ones) It turned out these popular lefty bloggers were about as anti-Catholic as they come, and Edwards did the right thing in firing them. (AAA’s note: Folks, he’s a trial lawyer, he would have been able to sue his own ass off for hate speech or something.)

I think most people were willing to brush it under the rug, but not die hard lefty bloggers. The local ranks of the fever-swamp have worked themselves into a lather demonizing Edwards for his decision to relieve the 2 femme fatah bloggers of their duty. A few of them have now pledged opposition to Edwards for this very reason, and they were supporting him in the first place.

Brodkorb is questioning Fecke and the Wege for their decisions to change course on supporting Edwards over this very decision.

Fecke. (AAA’s Note: He is also on the payroll of one of the Soros media empire conglomerates here in Minnesota Monitor)

If this story turns out to be true, I will be supporting Barack Obama in the primaries.

It’s not so much the firing of Marcotte and McEwen–though that’s part of it. It’s doing so in the face of an obvious right-wing gripefest

[...]But if you can’t keep Amanda and Melissa around–forget it. You’re not the man I want fighting for us in 2008–because when the going gets tough, you will fold.

The Wege

Salon says they haven’t been fired, but any retreat in the face of specious quote-whoring is a step backwards in the bigger battle to reclaim the information superhighway for real news, and not just corporate-spoonfed faux news. You don’t judge campaign staff except by their previous campaign work. Everything else you have to assume is compartmentalized. You judge the candidate, not their staff, and if the hard right — no fuckit, they’re goddamned fascists so why sugarcoat it? — thinks they can mau mau our candidates into backing down from fights, well, then we need new candidates.

I guess I could care less what these lefties think on most issues. We’ll never see eye to eye on any political issue, and I am fine with that. I ignore them, and I hope they ignore me. That’s the beauty of having the blogs, you have to go to a website to read the stuff people write.

But it is telling to see them show the level of anger that I do about life and death decisions regarding the war on terror. It is rather interesting while the center right bloggers try to debate the varying nuances of which candidate to support trying to find the person that will best fulfill as much of one’s own beliefs as possible, the lefties fly off the handle over two anti-Catholic bigots being let go from a Democrat candidate’s campaign who is about as perfect a match for them as they could get.

Here we see lefty bloggers pledging opposition to one of their candidates not out of differences on major issues, but for refusing to stand by anti-Catholic bigots. Edwards is left (perfect for them) on the war, taxes, health care, unions, etc etc. But because he refuses to pay the right people, no matter the baggage, to work for his campaign, they are taking out the short swords.

Maybe the right side of the blogosphere is just more mature.

Like for instance, I oppose McCain for reason #∞ for his giving rights to terrorists trying to kill me and other Americans.

McCain said Wednesday that intelligence is needed to fight terrorism, but “the intelligence we collect must be reliable and acquired humanely, under clear standards understood by all our fighting men and women.” Torturing prisoners not only yields unreliable answers, but also endangers captured U.S. troops and allows “the cruel actions of a few to darken the reputation of our country in the eyes of millions,” he said.

“The enemy we fight has no respect for human life or human rights. They don’t deserve our sympathy,” he said. “But this isn’t about who they are. This is about who we are. These are the values that distinguish us from our enemies.”

I guess the left and right blogs can agree and disagree on what to oppose candidates over. I’m not for torture, but I am also not for going soft on animals trained specifically on how to deal with US interrogations if captured. McCain did everything he could to define exactly how far we could go, thus giving away how far the enemy needs to be able to go.

I oppose him for that among so many other issue related reasons. Besides, I don’t think he is stupid enough to hire a blogger with a wretched history of anti-Catholic bigotry.