Liberals making sense...

If you get too steeped in your ideology, it is easy to arrive at the point where all who disagree seem like idiots. Hold on! That position is idiotic.

Yes, I deplore the fact that most liberals refuse to look at the records of Calvin Coolidge, and later John Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan. They refuse to believe the proven fact that Keynesian Economics are a failure. I don't know who they trust for economic knowledge, but while that may make them misled, it does not make them idiots.

Consider Bill Maher, in a confrontation with an Islam proponent, Maher said "...there’s only one faith, for example, that kills you or wants to kill you if you draw a bad cartoon of the prophet. There’s only one faith that kills you or wants to kill you if you renounce the faith. An ex-Muslim is a very dangerous thing. Talk to Salman Rushdie after the show about Christian versus Islam."

The fact is, Bill Maher is a brilliant guy. My problem with him is that too many people, especially young people, look to Maher as a serious source of news. True, Maher often reports serious news, but his job is as a Comedian! His primary task is to be funny.

Then, there is Kirsten Powers. A self-identified liberal Democrat, Kirsten's USA Today column was the blow that finally got the news of the trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell on the national radar screen. As Star Parker wrote, "This of course, is the horror story of a cesspool in Philadelphia posturing as an abortion clinic, operating without inspection for 17 years. Gosnell, the doctor who ran the place, has been formally charged of murder of one woman and seven infants." But his trial has been largely ignored by mainstream media. Good for Powers.

And, how about Alan Morton Dershowitz, the Harvard Law School Professor. Dershowitz calls himself a proud Liberal, but he was the first one to denounce the Florida prosecutor who charged George Zimmerman with murder in the Trayvon Martin slaying. And, I might add, conservative commentator Bernard Goldberg praised Dershowitz as being one of the fairest persons he has ever known.

Tough as it may sometimes seem, it might do well to learn how to say, "I disagree with you on that point... "  As Erick Erickson recently said, "It is, in fact, possible to disagree without being disagreeable and to dispute without being disreputable."