From conservative writer David Frum:
It's not enough for conservatives to repudiate violence, as some are belatedly beginning to do. We have to tone down the militant and accusatory rhetoric. If Barack Obama really were a fascist, really were a Nazi, really did plan death panels to kill the old and infirm, really did contemplate overthrowing the American constitutional republic—if he were those things, somebody should shoot him.Strong words, but he's right. I've often said that if gay people were everything the religious right described us to be - pedophiles after your children - I'd be first in line to stop them by any means necessary. The language invites and incites violence. And the same thing is happening on health care reform. Except now you have a leading conservative voice saying so. Read the entire piece, it's excellent.
But he is not. He is an ambitious, liberal president who is spending too much money and emitting too much debt. His health-care ideas are too ambitious and his climate plans are too interventionist. The president can be met and bested on the field of reason—but only by people who are themselves reasonable.
