A writer I'm not familiar with, Kurt Schlichter, suggests ignoring those overly cautious voices urging conservatives not to politicize the Obama administration's scandals.
There’s nothing wrong with politicizing politics. In fact, it’s kind of difficult to imagine why politics shouldn’t be politicized – politics is, after all, by definition political.
We now have an Administration that lied about what happened in Benghazi, and is now lying about its lies. We have a cabinet secretary shaking down healthcare companies for “donations” to a propaganda fund for Obamacare. We have the government grabbing up reporters’ cellphone records, and we have the IRS randomly selecting for persecution people and entities who just happen to oppose the regime’s goals.
For some liberals, this is just too much to swallow, and we should focus on splitting them out of the liberal coalition.
He also makes these perceptive observations.
We spend so much time seeing and reading the ravings of the
zombie liberals of the media and the blogs that we forget there is another
group of liberals who are liberal because – for whatever misguided reason –
they think liberalism is the right way to be. In other words, there are
liberals who actually believe what liberalism used to purport to support –
including civil rights, civil liberties and the rights of traditionally
disadvantaged people.
It is interesting that from those ranks come some of the
most dedicated and effective conservative activists – people who became
conservative not because they changed their views but because they didn’t.
Liberalism left them. (From personal experience, I know this is true). They believe in individual rights and in equality
before the law. They hate prejudice and bigotry in all their ugly forms. They embrace
every individual’s value, and want to see every individual have a chance to
live and to succeed.They are people like Andrew Breitbart. Andrew was not born a conservative. He wasn’t raised a right-winger. He started out a liberal, but he actually took seriously what liberals said. His great sin – and why he was and is so hated by liberals – is that he refused to stop believing in those values when those values stopped being useful. His outrage was not that liberals were liberal; it was that establishment liberals were liars, that they struck poses as defenders of what was true and good and then abandoned them without a second thought if another pose better served their purpose.
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