America, 2009

I spend some time in political chat rooms, and posting on sites like Politico and Huffington. There's one literal, sincere, serious point I make that consistenly incites attacks and personal insults from liberals:

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"The American Left wants to turn America into a European-model socialist democracy."

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Boy, do the claws come out with this one. People on these sites like to compete to come up with the most creative, vicious personal attacks that they can muster (and many are very good), but they typically revolve around either "you're stupid" or "you're mentally ill." Most amusing of all, of course, is that they automatically assume I'm a Republican.

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The funny thing is, no one ever denies it.

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If they were to deny it, I would then ask them something like this: "Okay, my apologies, perhaps I'm wrong. Please describe, then, precisely what you did not like about pre-Sarkozy France."

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How many examples, do you suppose, would they be able to provide? I'd bet my collection of Jimmy Buffett CD's that you'd be able to count them on two fingers, while I'd be able to provide a long list of things they just loved about pre-Sarkozy France.

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Every indication, as of this writing, is that either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton will be our President in 2009, and that Congress will lean even more to the Democrat side. Take a close look at the promises these people are making, and Google "France government".

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Then you tell me.

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