The Shifty Left

The left's biggest weapon in the battle of ideas is their plasticity. The left is anything it wants to be- and anything they want you to be.

Think of "hope" and "change" from the 2008 campaign. It meant... nothing. And everything. It was every desire you held and squashed every fear in your heart. For the greens it meant lowering the tides and healing the planet. For the pro-choice it meant unrestricted rights to abortion on demand. For the big government socialists it meant single payer healthcare. Cindy Sheehan took it as an immediate withdrawal of troops and race mongers took it as enhanced affirmative actions policies.

The left is plastic. If the polls say X, they become X. They are were against the war before they were for it. They embody any whim, any policy, any idea when it is convenient and when it could lead to further political power gains.

Where is Cindy Sheehan these days? We've all read of NATO ground troops getting ready to deploy after almost 4 months of air strikes in Libya. I've yet to see a protest on the Mall- and trust me, I live right there. In fact the only Code Pink protester to interrupt the House was a young pinky shouting down Benjamin Natanyahu. No one has interrupted hearings. No one has painted and blood red and waived them in front of Secretary Clinton.

General "Betray-us" was just picked to head the CIA. Where's that "willing suspension of disbelief"? I guess it too was plastic.

What prompts my ponderings is today's press conference by Anthony Weiner. He came clean. Those cries of hacks and right wingers framing him? All lies. All untrue. All... plastic.

Where are the women's groups? Where are the mother's groups? Where is the outrage about internet preying and sexual abuse by men in power on young college coeds?

Plastic.

Plastic outrage. Plastic indignation. Plastic protests. Plastic beliefs. The left stands for nothing but themselves. They believe in nothing but power. They want nothing but political gains.

How else to explain the fact that our President spent 2 years fighting for a healthcare bill while watching the dollar plunge, inflation rise, food prices soar, home prices plummet... they don't care. Plastic.

If Anthony Weiner was comfortable lying for days- blaming others- accusing others, what else is he comfortable doing? What other cover-ups are so cavalier? What else is convenient to lie about?

Congressmen Weiner will sit down again, behind a microphone, leading discussions about serious issues that will compel and force us to live certain laws he deigns to pass. How anyone can take him serious, I don't know. How anyone can listen to his opinion again, I don't know.

But then again- who cares? It's just plastic. I'll feel different tomorrow.