Some people are convinced that a compassionate conservative is an
oxymoron. But, I know better. I'm not suggesting I am one, but I do know a
few. They're the people who occasionally take me to task for being too
critical of liberals.
They'll insist that some of their best friends are liberals. Liberals,
they'll inform me, make fine neighbors and positively first-rate relatives. I
patiently explain that they're preaching to the choir. I know first-hand that
liberals can be all of those things, and more.
My only problem with liberals is that they're hypocrites and they can't
help lying.
Perhaps, like my friends, you now think I'm too harsh in my
judgment. On the contrary, I think I tend to give liberals the benefit of the
doubt. I happen to believe they are so besotted by their emotions that they
can't help painting themselves into indefensible corners. To blame a liberal
for lying and blatant hypocrisy would be as heartless as blaming an alcoholic
for drinking. In fact, I suspect that, like alcoholics, liberals suffer from a
chemical imbalance. Otherwise, how would you explain the enormous gulf
between what they say and what they do?
For instance, how often have we read newspaper editorials arguing for
Affirmative Action in schools and in the work place? In most cases, those
pieces are not being written or edited by members of a racial minority group.
So, if they were sincere, shouldn't these journalists clear out their desks and
surrender their jobs to somewhat less qualified, but far more deserving,
blacks and Hispanics?
Or consider, if you will, how consistently liberals object to tax cuts.
They prattle on incessantly about how much the wealthy benefit, ignoring
the logic that if there's a 10% reduction across the board, it figures that the
person who pays more will save more. But, when liberals blather about the
inequities of tax cuts, you realize they actually believe that if a millionaire
saves fifty thousand on his tax bill, the guy who only earns, say, thirty
grand-a-year should get the same return!
Liberals, for reasons that some of us will never comprehend, are
convinced that the federal government can be trusted to spend money more
wisely than the people who actually earn it. When Bill Clinton was in the
White House, he said as much.