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Angry Liberals Run Amok in Albemarle County, Virginia

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What is it with some of the left that at the mere mention of someone with opposing views, they immediately lose all focus and rant against conservatives and Republicans in general or John McCain and Sarah Palin in particular.  They have long since transferred their hatred of Bush to McCain and Palin.

All this just proves is that their animosity against Republicans is only partly based on ideology or dislike of a supposedly incompetent and unintelligent executive, but primarily in their own neuroses.  They have some “need” to express their hatred against conservatives, verbally on their blogs and in person as well as physically against signs and bumper stickers promoting Republicans.

In the past few days, I have been surprised at the number of McCain-Palin bumper stickers I have seen in the West Hollywood/Hollywood area, impressed that these motorists are willing to risk having their cars keyed or otherwise vandalized, given how frequently that has happened in years past.

Now, blogress Cassy Fiano reports from Albemarle County, Virginia (my old stomping grounds when I was in law school about how these unhappy leftists have vandalized or stolen McCain campaign signs.  Not just that:

Two couples that put up signs expressing support for GOP candidates have had their signs stolen and have been receiving hate mail. And while Chris [Albemarle County GOP chairman Chris Schoenewald] told me they’re used to seeing some level of this kind of activity, this is the worst. “Large billboard signs that people are putting onto their property are being vandalized or stolen,” Chris said. “In past years, we haven’t seen that happen. We’ve been putting them on private property where the owners have been asking us to put them there. We’ve never seen a situation where there’s been this level of vandalism and theft. This is the first time that we’ve really seen this scale of activity.”

And I thought Bush-hatred was bad in 2004. This year, the vandalism has increased to levels never previously seen, at least in Virginia.

Albemarle County surrounds the City of Charlottesville, site of the University of Virginia. Interesting that we find the greatest amount of anti-Republican hatred near university campuses.

What is it about intellectuals who supposedly pursue the truth dispassionattely that makes them so passioantely intolerant of opposing viewpoints. Check out Cassy’s post to see photographic evidence of their intolerance. And to wonder why these people find it necessary to express themselves profanely when confronting conservatives.

Comments

  1. Perhaps it is because being a liberal is akin to having a mental illness.

    While I am sure there is a conservative or two who might get a little red in the face trying to argue a point with a liberal, I bet there are far more liberals who take things to physical extremes. What would you like to bet that the sort of person who will go vandalize a campaing sign that is pro-McCain only has the “courage” to do it in the dark of the night?

  3. Just an instructive anecdote to how messed up these people are in the head…

    I was walking my dog in the park in 2004 — september, october, somewhere in there — and noticed these little white dots along the side of the path. wondering what i was seeing, I looked a little closer and there was a little trail of dog poo one after another, as dogs are wont to do, doo. And out of each dropping stuck a little toothpick, and on each little toothpick was a little flag with a little picture of President Bush attached.

    So not only does their ideology have them handling feces, but it was premeditated. They planned it, printed the pictures, attaches them to little toothpicks, all the while undoubtedly, thinking how superior and enlightened they were.

  7. This election is really opening my eyes where it concerns “liberals”.
    A Democrat “friend” wrote to me this past Friday, “You like Palin? The religious fanatic that thinks we “CHOOSE” who we are? She would want nothing more than for you and I to be locked up. You have a lot more to loose from her type. Your child. Think about it. She’d love to have DCF snatch your child away, all so that your child could be raised in a “normal home”.” This friend knowing we just adopted, trying to hit at our most vulnerable part…our kid. This election will be over in a few weeks, the lessons I’m learning about people will stay with me forever. This unfortunately has been one of the mildest things we’ve heard from some.

  8. We do not put up yard signs anymore, because the “trashing” goes on long after the election. A common practice in Albemarle is set the signs on fire. The police do not have a bias in the yard sign theft and vandalism, but it is nuts to tie their valuable time up with this type of derangement syndrome bluster.

    I see the little letter mind has left another turd in the punchbowl. I have never heard of a democrat sign being destroyed in Albemarle. Nor have I ever heard of the Republicans going to nursing homes and guiding the senile through the absentee voting process. “If it isn’t close, they can’t cheat.” But I can not image the Republican party coming down to sleaze tactics of the Democrats.

    The political outburst in Albemarle is individual, not organized so far as I know. But the students who bus in for registration activities, etc. are given a wink and a nod by the Democrat party people.

  9. I was reminded of a quote I vaguely remembered about using force to express a point of view, so I looked it up and found that one plus several others just as relevant:

    Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
    –Daniel Webster

    He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
    –Michel de Montaigne

    One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans — anything except reason.
    –Thomas Sowell

    Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
    –William E Gladstone

  10. I live in a Matalin-Carville household, so we don’t do yard signs, except on the rare occasion when we agree (like our very conservative, 2A absolutist Democrat Sheriff). It wouldn’t make much sense anyway; it’s local traffic only, and a half mile from here, the road dead ends into the mountain).

    However. We live right across the street from the church where this precinct votes, and the Obamatrons feel entitled to put Obama signs in our yard, right next to the road (they’ve done this six times so far). Fortunately for them, neither of us was outside when somebody was putting those signs in our yard. That’s what the 12-gauge is for.

  11. Same thing is happening in Ann Arbor,Mi too. There are neighborhoods ( especially in the Old West Side), where putting up a Mccain/Palin sign is to invite vandalism of your lawn, garden, car etc. Always happens at night. And being Ann Arbor, th e liberal thugs are confident no one will shoot them.

  12. I recently reconnected with a group of high school classmates during my 20th anniversary reunion. Bear in mind that I attended an art school in high school in Manhattan, where we were indoctrinated to believe that Reagan was Satan and the GOP his minions. I had conservative leanings back then due to my upbringing and always kept those views in the closet. Anyway, some of the alumni decided to start a Facebook group going so I decided to tag along. At the point where I was asked about my political views, I thought that there would be no harm in saying Conservative. Big mistake.

    Since then, more than my share of former classmates have done everything from rile against me and sending me hate mail to attempts to assassinate my character. I have been called an idiot, traitor and part of the problem with this country because I adopt conservative views. I made several rebuttals to their claims only to be met with more hostility.

    It would never occur to me to tell any liberal to change their views or their mind on election day, let alone get in their face and belittle them. Mind you, I haven’t seen or heard from these people in over 2 decades. It was a bleak reminder to me that for some, high school never ends.

  13. The biggest ploy among the Left is that to take tired, old, failed and in some instances catastrophic ideas and repackage them as new, innovative and effective ideas. Change? What exactly is new about redistribution of wealth, socialized health care, apologizing to our adversaries and increasing government regulation?

    The Left remind me of those apocalyptic types who come up with a date for armageddon. They spend their time waiting for it to arrive. It does. It passes and nothing happens. Instead of saying “Wow! That didn’t work. Let’s not make that mistake again,” they simply reset their core belief and come up with a new deadline.

    I know that I’m preaching to the choir here but I adopt conservative ideals because they are time tested and proven to be successful. If you work hard, keep focused, live within your means and provide a skill that is in high demand and low supply, then you will be successful. Nothing new. Nothing innovative. Time proven and effective. Most of you here know that. Our country’s founding fathers knew that.