Liberals in the Ninth Circle of Hell

Today's my day for posting at the American Street.  Here are the opening grafs of this morning's effort:

Context is all, and when a guy going through a rough divorce, finding out his best friend is dating his soon to be ex-wife, turns on his pal and shouts, “Judas!” he’s perhaps being a tad more literary than most guys in his situation would be who’d reach for a bar stool to clobber their former friend with before they’d reach for a biblical allusion, but he’s still got a point.

No one who heard this would think he saw himself as Jesus on his way to Golgotha.

Everybody would know exactly what he meant and how he feels. 

But when Right Wing bloggers call people who are critical of President Bush Judases, they are not being merely poetic. They are in earnest.  They mean the comparisons to be taken literally.  Dissent is treason, treason is sin, Bush is a Christian hero, and Liberals are as damnable as the worst of history's traitors. They can try to adopt a reasonable if mournful tone, but there’s no disguising their meaning—criticize my hero and you deserve to spend eternity in the cold center of Hell with Satan chewing on your worthless hide for ever and ever, amen.

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Comments

[blue girl]

Excellent post.

[Ryan]

C'mon. Ideals never enter into it. Christian values never enter into it. Winning and imposing whatever idiot scheme you can think up and get away with it has everything to do with it. We would call them Judas if Jesus didn't ask Judas to betray him to "win the war" as it were.

Don't mean to offend the Christians, but Jesus was an alpha male who was willing to go the whole hog. Republicans will only go as far as their morgages are secure, their BMW's are paid for and they can have their 1:00 lay in a discreet hotel in Manhattan.

There's something in there that democrats need to focus on...

[harry near indy]

good post, lance.

btw, have the phrases "benedict arnold" and "quisling" to describe a traitor gone out of favor? i don't read or hear them much these days.