Suggested Reading, or Just Ogling

A friend (amazingly, I do have some) asked me what it's like to be a liberal. Obviously I have put away such childish ideologies, but I won't explain my conservative salvation here. Michael Medved's book Right Turns is an excellent read. I told my friend that it's very exciting being a liberal--there is no dearth of reasons to be angry, and liberals can feel productive simply being indignant about injustice without actually acting to improve any situation. No argument or idea needs to be constrained by logic or practicality; emotions and ideals rule. One needs never to examine a position or change a behavior, because everything is right and offense is a valid defense (that is, claiming offense automatically absolves one of responsibility, not matter how valid the critique). And one is morally and intellectually superior, as being liberal alone automatically proves. Liberal altruism is, of course, extremely selfish--their hearts bleed only so that they may show the wounds inflicted by such a cruel, oppressive, iniquitous society. The majority of liberals masturbate by patting themselves on the back.

I find that last sentence a bit edgy myself, more than fit for attribution to Ann Coulter. I'm ambivalent about wanting to be another Ann Coulter--she's witty and intelligent and obviously refuses to kowtow to the fascism that is political correctness. However, I was struck by one of her interviews regarding the media's flaying of Sarah Palin, when Ms. Coulter remarked that she hadn't seen such hostility toward a woman since, well, herself. As usual, she was right. Vocal, unapologetic conservative women like Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Malkin are constant targets of vitriolic fury, often from self-proclaimed feminists who nevertheless believe that woman have no right to hold certain positions--equality be damned.

There is nothing the rabid Left hates more than a conservative woman, unless it's a beautiful conservative woman. Sarah Palin could still win beauty contests, and Ann Coulter looks stunning, as always, on the cover of her newest book--I need to find a copy and see if it says who designed her dress. Meanwhile, let's look (not directly) at the other side of the aisle--Arianna Huffington looks like someone stuck a pair of over-collagened lips on a glob of raw bread dough. Nancy Pelosi is obviously some eyebrow-less alien creature, and Hillary Clinton--oh, Hillary Clinton--she's more manly than Harry Reid, Barney Frank, and Ted Kennedy lumped together. (A physical situation which Sens. Kennedy and Reid would no doubt resist and Rep. Frank probably welcome.)

Beautiful Conservative Derangement Syndrome surely stems from a wrenching paradox created by feminists, who are in turn being destroyed by their own monster. Feminism, of course, eschews biology, rejecting and indicting the idea that men like beautiful women, and thus women wish to be physically attractive. Despite their best efforts, many of the feminists with which the left is infested remain women, and face the Sysiphean task of denouncing and condemning physical beauty while yearning for it like Clytie for Apollo. Of course, she turned into a sunflower. Whereas left-wing feminists simply turn into pasty husks in pantsuits.