'Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism--
The right to criticize;
The right to hold unpopular beliefs;
The right to protest;
The right of independent thought.'
Republicans might be determined to end Democratic control of Congress, Smith suggested in her declaration:
'Yet to displace it with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to this nation. The nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny--Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.
I doubt if the Republican Party could--simply because I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest.'"
http:// www.thenation.com /article/159929/how-socialists-built- america
There was a time I respected the Republicans. And Margaret Chase Smith was one of the Republicans I respected most. I see no member of the GOP today worthy of carrying her pipe cleaners.
We now have a Republican Party that is united against a President in a way they never were against President Truman, because Barack Obama has succeeded in passing a minimal national healthcare plan, and had the audacity to commit the heinous crime of taking the Oath of Office to be President of the United States while Black. The "modern" Republican Party has embraced Senator Smith's Four Horsemen of Calumny like a long lost lover.
The traditional seven deadly sins (pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, envy, gluttony, and sloth) are either the expression or result of selfishness. Pride--considered by theologians to be the deadliest of all the sins--is nothing more than the highest expression of narcissistic egoism. It blinds us to our faults, as well as to others' needs. And the modern Conservative is driven by pride that refuses to admit the slightest fault, or that a political opponent may be right. This pride seems driven by a need to avoid confronting the moral inadequacy of their own positions, or the lack of moral substance in the philosophy of Ayn Rand.
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