Political Class Dismissed

A perfect example of the bizarro world in which our political class lives is how they’ve redefined extremist wackos to be considered “centrist moderates” and vice versa. Look at how Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul are villified as “extremists” because they don’t think the U.S. should start WWIII with nuclear-armed Russia over Georgia but “centrist moderates” McCain and Obama agree 100% on the issue. Isn’t that completely insane? Who in their right mind can legitimately defend that?

Another good example of the bizzarro world mentality is how establishment deemed “centrist moderates” like David Frum and Arlen Specter are considered respectable even though they stand for more war, torture and deficit-spending. The MSM is trying to paint Specter’s departure from the GOP as evidence the party is moving in an extreme direction (i.e. less statist). It’s similar to how they tried to pin McCain’s loss on social conservative Sarah Palin while ignoring the neocon disasters of the Bush years. The MSM and their “centrist moderates” always tend to overlook the public’s disdain with the bipartisan consensus on empire-building, endless war and spending ourselves into oblivion. Commentor WRW on TheAmericanConservative blog nails it with the following:

Yes, it pinches on the myth that it was “social conservatives” who lost it all; not the warmongers, torture promoters, loose immigration “reformers”, drug benefit/no child corporate welfare advocates, outsourcing promoters, and tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% crowd. Oh, and did I mention staggering deficits and inflationary housing policies?

No. Frum had no involvement with any of that. Neither did Specter. Oh, wait, yeah they were holding hands on those.