Crossthreaded
Perhaps you didn't read the rant to which RobVG linked. I did, and I understand Bowser's comments as being directed toward that vile example of Rightwing demagoguery, and not your original post.
The first manifestation of traitors...are people who believe that Al Gore should have won the Presidency...
...Above all, these are people who talk about America as a "democracy" rather than as a "republic"....
...The next manifestation of traitors...can be found among people who consider the Constitution a "living document"...campaign finance reform...ban firearms...
...Of course, the natural human instinct is for conformity...
...Finally, we find the manifestation of traitors in those who espouse causes other than...republican ones: those who call themselves "progressives", "socialists", "communitarians", "populists", "globalists"
In other words, anyone who isn't farther to the right than John McCain is a traitor. The rant concludes with this unsubtle threat:
We ignore these warnings and lessons at our own peril. Remember, the final objective of our modern-day traitors is no different to that of those traitors in France during the final decades of the Third Republic...it should be noted that after France was liberated by the Allies in 1944, and after a long and exhaustive trial, Pierre Laval was executed by firing squad.
I guess if you can cherrypick the looniest photos you can find from the antiwar demonstrations, it's just as legitimate to label that Rightist whackjob manifesto as representative of conversatism.
