OK conservatives, here’s the play.  You’re in charge.  You’ve got the ball, and you’re running with it.  You’re supposed to be the grown-ups, at least that’s what you keep telling us.  You’re in control, and you’ve got responsibilities.

     So, control your boyz, dawgs.

     You’ve got Pat Robertson saying that Federal judges are more of a danger to this country than Al Queda.  You’ve got Tom DeLay running around accusing a poor man who’s a victim of unimaginable tragedy of being a wife-killer.  You’ve got a handful of people publicly advocating the murder of judges and doctors.  You’ve got Ann Coulter saying our government should kill journalists and that liberals should be given cause for fear.  She has said we need a return to McCarthyism.  She has publicly called for a witch-hunt style mob action against any dissent from our government.

     You have a political machine that has been running full-bore to demonize a minority for the purpose of increasing your political power, and to permanently entrench them as a legally defined class of sub-human sub-citizens.

     And you expect people to disagree with you nicely?

     What’s “nice” going to get anyone?  Is Alan Colmes more than just a well-paid shill?  Is he actually an example of what you expect “liberals” to act like? 

     “Oh Mr. Hannity, I wish I could be like you, so All-American looking with the square jaw and all.  If I didn’t need my inhaler and nasal spray so much I could be a ruggedly individualistic conservative like you.  But I’m a pussy, and your strong leadership makes you say things that hurt my feelings?”

     Screw that.

     You hold the power, you set the tone.  The opposition will not be held to civil dialogue while you invite people who encourage political murder, violence, and persecution to speak at your fundraising events and political rallies.

     And then you raise a hue-and-cry over some young college liberal who asks Ann Coulter what she would think of a man who “only fucks his wife up the ass”?

     Do you seriously expect any liberal who’s been paying attention to blush at this question?

     Your dogs have been howling for quite some time about how consensual sodomy is an automatic ticket to hell.

     You’re boyz Dobson and Falwell will tell anyone that a wife has to do whatever her husband says.  I believe that’s Coulter’s position too.

     I’m sure you don’t understand the confusion on the point of when sodomy is a mortal sin and when it is something endorsed by God and the sanctity of marriage.  I’m sure you don’t get why “liberals” would think that consensual sodomy between two men was miles more OK than possibly non-consensual, religiously forced sodomy between a married husband and wife.

     I’m also sure that you don’t get how someone might think that dropping an “F bomb” might not seem like that big of a deal when the agenda of the evening is set by an honored speaker who advocates politically motivated murder, terrorism, vigilantism, and government violation of constitutionally guaranteed and protected human rights (and does it while pouting provocatively, giggling like a school girl, and tossing her mane of blond hair as if she’s talking about her naughty prom date rather than the destruction of all that is American…THAT’S just creepy as all hell).

     “There were children in the audience!”  you cry?  Do you mean to tell me that people brought their children to hear a fascistic cocktail waitress advocate political murder, and got upset because their child heard the “F word?”

     You can decry the “F word” all you want.  You can complain about the “lack of civility in public debate”, you can cry all you want about the “hate-filled, intolerant left”…but those crocodile tears won’t fool anyone.

     I say again.  You hold the reins.  You are moving the ball.  You are setting the tone and the agenda.  You’ve got most of the press bought and paid for, and the rest cowed.  You are in control of most of the speech in this country right now.

     You got McCain and Powel to fall into line and pimp for this president, you herded numerous dissenting R.I.N.O.s along on your little campaign cattle drive…

     Do you expect anyone to believe for a second that the people out there talking and agitating for the destruction of the press, the independent judiciary, and the dehumanization of various classes of people are doing so without your blessing and silent approval?

     Then repudiate them.  Come right out and say “The Republican party supports the basic, fundamental human rights of all Americans.  The Republican party does not support any form of assassination or political murder.  The right to dissent is a fundamental American right.  The voicing of and following of personal conscience is the right and duty of every American, and the defense of that right and duty is the primary role of government.”

     Go ahead.  I dare you.

     Until then, shut up about civility.  If you can’t have the decency to act like real Americans, then at least don’t be hypocrites.