Political Hypothetical What-If Rambling — What Will The Right Do?

As I watch the Traitorgate/Plamegate/ whatever-you-want-to-call-it investigation and the various related blogosphere commentary unfold, I have to wonder to myself how it will affect our country and our voters on both the left and the right. Mostly, I’m curious about those on the right who are deeply in denial. I mean, I’ve seen the commentary by some very liberal bloggers who believe that Bush could rape young boys on live tv and even still his “base” would stand by him and I wonder how close to the truth that is.

In general, over the last few months, I’ve really tried to pay attention to my blogging as far as what I say about the right and in particular, the Bush Administration. What I mean by that is that unlike other liberal bloggers I’ve read, I try to restrain myself from name-calling.

It’s not always easy. Sometimes I just get frustrated as it does indeed seem like Bush&Co. is untouchable and the mindboggling of the excuse-making from the right or worse, the inability to admit that a Republican could do anything wrong, makes me want to run back to that time when in my life when it was easy to believe what I wanted like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and that all Republicans were indeed above badness. Gosh, that was a long time ago and my favorite insult then was “you poopy head!”

But I digress.

I really want to ponder the whole hypothetical of how the “base” right will react if evidence is finally provided that Bush and Chenney did have knowledge of the release of Wilson’s wife’s name to reporters and that it was done as retaliation for Wilson disagreeing with their talking points for why the U.S. had to go to war with Iraq. I’m curious if it would change anything if evidence is presented that the U.S. did in fact go to war on information that was created specifically for the purpose of going to war with Iraq and that Bush and Chenney knew about that too and encouraged it or worse, ordered it.

And if it doesn’t matter to them, then what’s the point? Why prove we were right all along if the other side refuses to believe the truth?

I mean, there isn’t a person, liberal or conservative, that doesn’t deny that Clinton had sex in the White House. We don’t even disagree that he lied about it to the country. Most of us disagree on how important it was, especially considering the fact that Ken Starr was supposed to be investigating Clinton’s business practices and not his sexual ones.

So, if we liberals are big enough to recognize that much, is it too much to ask that the right keeps an open mind and accepts the evidence rather than makes excuses for it or denies it?

Remember, Patrick Fitzgerald is a Republican himself. This is not a Democrat on some sort of political agenda out to destroy the enemy. This is a man who is out to find the truth. He’s spent far less money than Starr, let’s hope he finds something more damning that Bush having sex in the White House.

tags: PlameGate, Republicans, politics, Patrick Fitzgerald

One comment

1. on October 22, 2005 at 10:00 pm

   Tamara said:

   It’s overused, but may I please just say, “Word”?

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