Regarding Grasping at Straws

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Harry Reid and Co. know that there is absolutely no way to prevail over Rush Limbaugh in the arena of ideas; and that conservatism and its ideals will prevail handily on its worst day over liberalism and its "ideals" on its best.

The only weapon that the democrats have? Character assassination.

The cheap shots taken at Rush with regard to something that was clearly taken out of context may be considered mildly amusing, if one were considering a Saturday Night Live sketch, in which the only comeback made by a cognitively challenged dupe would be, "well... you got big ears!"

But the truth of the matter is, it's no Saturday Night Live sketch. It's a party of duly elected officials, who for want of substance take two words out of context to try to silence an otherwise formidable opponent who cleans their collective intellectual and ideological clocks on a daily basis.

What makes this so pitiful and un-humorous is that Harry Reid and Co. continue to insult the intelligence of our populace, asking us to suspend belief that Limbaugh, who has done nothing but support the troops and has spoken nothing but respect for their service since his show's inception over 18 years ago, actually aimed his remark at duly enlisted soldiers.

What makes this even more pitiful is the blatant hypocrisy in this attack by a party that makes it its motus operandi to daily badmouth the mission in which our troops are engaged, from Murtha labeling Marines cold blooded killers; to Durbin's comparing our soldiers' actions in Guantanamo to the Nazis and Pol Pot; to John Kerry's characterization of our troops terrorizing women and children in the dead of night; or even Harry Reid's unfounded proclamation that the Iraq war is lost, just for starters.

To go on and to take two words out of context and feign indignation in the face of the mountain of defamations, degradations and outright sedition in which these clowns engage on a daily basis is more than beyond the pale.

But then again, what's one more contrivance to a party that in the last decade has built itself on a mountain of contrivances?