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Buttheads On Parade

Shots fired into Bush-Cheney headquarters in Tennessee. A swastika burned into the lawn of a Colorado Bush supporter. Protestors ransack Bush headquarters in Orlando. A Bush campaign leader slugged in the mouth according to Gainseville police. Bush campaign signs vandalized in Maryland.

Glenn Reynolds and Michelle Malking have the detailed links here and here. Reynolds also notes "peace movement" people cheering this stuff.

Reynolds says, "I blame Michael Moore." I do to. Well that, and his apologists and defenders. Not to mention Joe Trippi and Howard Dean.

The moonbats will undoubtedly blame Karl Rove for all this, just like they blamed Rove for the breakin at Bush/Cheney headquarters in Washington a few days ago. Cretins.

By the way, if anyone sends me documentation of Republicans behaving like this, I'll still be happy to link them. But talk about your "climate of fear." I'm seriously thinking of removing the Bush/Cheney stuff from our car and house. Yes, we're an armed household and won't hesitate to shoot of course, but I don't treasure the idea of something happening to Jake or Rosemary when I'm not home.

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Final Historian (mail) (www):
From what I know of your wife, I pity the fool who attempts to do harm unto her. But for the sake of your son it might be a good idea...
10.6.2004 2:47am
Mark Noonan (mail):
Dean,

I, too, have worried about that Bush/Cheney sticker prominently displayed on my car...but I'm not going to remove it.

There is a climate of hatred and fear in the US today - and its all generated by the left.
10.6.2004 3:05am
John Irving (mail):
I listened to Green Day's "American Idiot" on the radio, and while the band claims to be anti-Bush, everything the song describes fits the left-wingers like a glove. Hysteria, dependency on the media to think for them, etc. It's a shame the Democratic party has bought into this disastrous philosophy.
10.6.2004 9:34am
Rita (www):
Not exactly documentation, but there's been a rash of political sign theft here in Fayetteville...of both parties. Though it does appear in the areas I regularly drive through that the Bush signs are disappearing more rapidly than the Kerry ones.

Put a Bush sticker on my car? No freaking way. Why take a chance? Though I have been sorely tempted to put a sign or three in my yard....with my Akita tied up out-of-sight but not out-of-reach.

Does that make me a bad person?

; )
10.6.2004 10:48am
Bill Dooley:
People of the left are driven by emotion, and are therefore unreliable. They will lash out at the slightest imagined provocation. You just can't trust 'em to be civil.
10.6.2004 12:05pm
Steven Malcolm Anderson (www):
The ones who are are always lecturing us about "tolerance", "compassion", ad nauseum, are now showing us their "tolerance", "compassion", ad nauseum. The Left is no longer liberal at all. To be a true liberal, you must believe in free speech even for those you hate. They have long ago ceased to be the party of John Stuart Mill and have become the party of Herbert Marcuse and Andrea Dworkin.

But, then, the Left has been that way since the French Revolution and throughout all the Communist revolutions. The reason for that is their slogan, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". It turns out that liberty and equality are incompatible, so there can be no fraternity. Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.
10.6.2004 1:47pm
whennessy (mail):
New story: Democrats have stormed and trashed a GOP headquarters in Milwaukee. (Nod to Drudge) That's three attacks on GOP offices in two days.

Coincidence? Well, maybe. But I think it's time for Republicans to start defending their turf. One of the planks in the Conservative Creed is that the people have the right to defend themselves when governments fail to do so. Clearly, governments are failing to protect Republican campaign offices, so it falls to Republicans to provide their own security.

Think about your typical anti-Bush protestor type, then think about your stereotypical Republican heavy--Arnold, Bruce Willis, Tom Selleck, Clint Eastwood. I'll bet on the GOP.
10.7.2004 2:18am