The goals of Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and others on the far left are so far out of the mainstream, it is impossible for them to win an argument based on the facts. There is no economic, military, or social situation that can be solved with a radical move toward socialism. I'm sure they know this and push their agenda anyway. The alternative is that they are all just stupid.
The problem occurs in that they feel they MUST advance their agenda. Because they can't win a straight-up debate, they move to their classic tactic of trying to discredit their opponents. The idea is that people won't listen to someone's ideas if they think that person is the bad guy. Their trump card of all trump cards is the race card, and on Monday, Harry Reid played it with full *****.
Remember during the course of the immigration debate? If you were not in favor of granting amnesty to millions of ******* aliens, you were a racist. If you favored the rule of law rather that rewarding ******* behavior, you were a racist.
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took his GOP-blasting rhetoric to a new level Monday, comparing Republicans who oppose health care reform to lawmakers who clung to the institution of slavery more than a century ago."
The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor, also compared health care foes to those who opposed women's suffrage and the civil rights movement -- even though it was Sen. Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Republicans who led the charge against slavery.
