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Corey Deitz
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For a democracy to stay healthy, it’s important when the voters
make a decision that the ascending majority and descending minority at
least be gracious enough to remain mannered and civil. But, that doesn’t
mean either side has to embrace the views they were campaigning against.
Civility is one thing; capitulation is quite another. My business partner is a
Democrat, my boss is a staunch liberal, and most people I work with are
left-of-center. We argue but it’s civil. Besides: we all have a decent
health care plan which covers knife wounds and burns.
American Politics is a sport and citizens have always played it
dirty during each round. I don’t have a problem with that. It’s after the
game where we seem to lose our dignity. In sports we called it “sore
sports”. In politics we called it “partisan bitterness”.
I watched as President Bush was vilified by his critics no matter
what he did and I thought it was clearly unfair. The far-left even booed
him at Barack Obama’s inauguration. The insolence of these people is
beyond imagination. Any man who steps into the job of the presidency
should at least be afforded the respect of his service, even if you disagree
with his decisions.
Bush was barely out of office when the far-left began crying out
for an investigation into his “war crimes”. Are those people insane?
George W. Bush kept America safe for over 7 years after 9/11 and all the
liberals could do was wring their hands over hypothetical civil liberty
violations they feared the Patriot Act might cause. The dinner plates
weren’t even washed from the Obama inaugural parties when these naïve
children - these ingrates - began to scream for Bush’s head on a platter.
This predictable and unconscionable behavior reinforced very
clearly to me why I long ago crossed over to being a conservative. Yes,
Bush made mistakes. No, I wasn’t happy about a lot of his decisions. Yes,
he kept us safe since 9/11. No, his stewardship over the economy wasn’t
exactly stellar.
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