"There are conservative moonbats as well."

I kid you not. That's what a blogger wrote today.

Slapstick Politicks has a post up today, one that was linked by Michelle Malkin and I'm sure is making the rounds as we speak. I got the tip from Gavin M. at Sadly, No!.

Background:

City officials said today a statue honoring slain Navy SEAL Danny Dietz will be erected July 4 despite opposition from a Littleton group claiming it glorified violence because he is depicted holding an automatic rifle.

Go look at the photo. Simply saying "because he is depicted holding an automatic rifle" is just a little soft, I think. It's not just any old assault rifle. It's an M4A1 assault rifle with a grenade launcher, a bear of a gun. And his chest is strapped with what I think are grenades (not sure). They and the rifle dominate the piece. The photo is a pretty spot-on rendering of the last photo taken of Dietz before he was killed in Afghanistan - after truly courageous actions - in 2004. It's set to be erected in a park near where Dietz grew up.

Again, it's in Littleton, in the community from which came the students that were at Columbine High School that day you need no reminding of. The people protesting: Just a handful, it seems, one of them the mother of a student who was at Columbine at the time of the attack, Linda Cuesta. She subsequently has become a gun control advocate. Hardly surprising. Another is the mother of a four-year-old who plays in the park.

The sculpture is what the Dietz's want for their son and it's a beautiful thing to do for him. I think kids will forget it's there, frankly, in a short time, and it'll become another thing in the park. The thing that stood out to me about the story was how Malkin and El Presidente, the writer at Slapstick Politics, treated the protestors, especially of Cuesta, the mother of the Columbine student, who was called by Malkin and Slapstick a "moonbat." Their term for Liberals, of course. One comment at SP:

"For moonbats it is not really about the statue--its about the guns." Yeah, well, Linda Cuesta has a thing about guns. Uh... Does anything really need to be said about why?


I left El Presidenta a comment:

The mother of a kid who was at Columbine during the shootings works for gun control - and you are dim enough to toss her under the "moonbat" label for that.[?] She may very well be a republican - have you checked?

Dense.

His response I think is very revealing:

She may be a Republican. She is for gun-control. On that issue, she is a moonbat, as well as for believing that a statue with a soldier carrying a weapon promotes violence.

There are conservative moonbats as well. In this situation, regardless of her political position, her thoughts on gun-control and what causes violence would easily put her into the moonbat category.
El Presidente | Homepage | 04.06.07 - 7:12 pm | #

That cracks me up, I gotta tell ya. "Conservative moonbats." My head is spinning.

The thing revealed by the comment is what is true about so many on the Bush side of the politcal aisle: They will eat their own in a heartbeat if you are not with them lock step. And it doesn't matter if you're a Republican: If you get out of step it is open season on you for the citriolic smears of people like Michelle Malkin and the Slapstick Artist. And Rush Limbaugh. And Orrin Hatch. And on and on and on...