Tolerance

The leftists of the world love to paint conservatives as intolerant. Intolerant of minorities, intolerant of homosexuals, intolerant of 'those not like us', and intolerant of anything else hat might seem like conservatives are terrible people.

There have been times in the past where conservatives most certainly have been on the wrong side of issues of tolerance, but since no party can claim the formula for utopia, a permanent condemnation seems inappropriate.

Tolerance, however, is also a costly proposal when used to further the ambitions of those who wish harm towards the very society where tolerance is a cherished characteristic.

Tolerance demands that all profiling is wrong, that statistics which may say one group is more likely to do this or that are racist or xenophobic, and tolerance also says that we must respect other cultures' values as if they were our own.

When people fly airplanes into buildings, we need not try to understand them for the sake of anything but to know how to stop them from doing it again. Their motivation is as equally irrelevant.

When a guy named al-Sadr prints a newspaper not offering a point / counter-point in Iraq, but prints how Americans should die and be kicked out of Iraq, John Kerry says, "It's interesting to hear that when they shut a newspaper that belongs to a legitimate voice in Iraq and, well, let me change the term 'legitimate.' When they shut a newspaper that belongs to a voice, because he has clearly taken on a far more radical tone in recent days and aligned himself with both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment."

Tolerance and open-mindedness make Kerry's vision cloudy. Not to mention that he's a partisan who really has never cared about American forces on the ground since his testimony the 1970s.

He is trying to cater to the emotions and appeal to the crowd of 'pacifist' who see this war as white versus non-whites, blood for oil, and all those people who look for reasons to blame the United States for (fill in reason here).

There can be some who say that, "Well Bush said that we won't win the war on terror and then made a correction, Kerry does the same here."

Bush did make a correction yes. And since we don't know the entire interview Kerry might have been slanting all the questions one way in order to make a point and then got caught in his own spin. It happens, and it doesn't make you a bad person either.

What does make you a bad person is when you publicly say that, "...aligned himself with both Hamas and Hezbollah, which is a sort of terrorist alignment." So Hamas and Hezbollah are only sort of terrorist groups? Are you daft Senator Kerry?

When Hamas blows up a bus of people in Israel are they sort of dead?

Leftists try to embrace that which is unworthy of being embraced and this is yet another example.

Leftists have a hard time tolerating historical symbols of a place called 'The Angels" (Los Angeles). Leftists do not like public expression of Christian faith. Leftists despise Bush because he takes his faith more seriously than they would like to see. Relativism comes into play and leftists say that Bush's Christian ideas remind them of Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism. But the strangest thing is they really do not come out to condemn Islamic beheadings of Westerners in Iraq, but they do condemn Bush's policies.

The tolerance of the left is a lie. It is a tool to make those who disagree with them look unthinking, uncaring, and incapable of understanding the situations and problems facing others. Leftists prefer not to tolerate America, leftists prefer not to tolerate people who make Christianity a central part of their lives, all the time leftists do tolerate Islamic Fundamentalists, they do tolerate tyrants in places like Iraq, or Syria (while characterizing Bush as being Hitler).

Kerry has aligned himself with these people - if he himself is not already in their camp anyhow. People like Lieberman have been pushed to the side of the Democratic party and marginalized because he is a voice of reason and articulation who will not be tolerated in the camp of the tolerant.

Another good decision by Kerry - Edwards 2004.