Shoot 'em All

I've been briefly paying attention to the great conservative retreat known as CPAC this week. Mostly for comic relief and mostly in sheer awe at a movement that is as dead as the dinosaurs can still believe itself as relevant. As I mentioned below the annual event is reminiscent of Nazi rallies from the 20s and 30s. They cheer and clap the nuclear destruction of American cities, they celebrate war like it's a gift from God and they cheer and jump around when the President of the United States is called a communist and a foreign born alien. Yet all the while proclaiming themselves as true Americans. Fascism it is.

But really what strikes me as complete idiocy is when people like Joe Wurzelbacher (aka Joe Da Plumber), the new face of the Republican Party, says people should be shot for talking bad about our troops.

Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em. And there’d be nothing said about that, because they knew it was wrong. You don’t talk about our troops. You support our troops. Especially when our congressmen and senators sit there and say bad things in an ongoing conflict.

I'd challenge anyone to find one person that was shot for talking bad about the military. Find me one person, only one. This is just ridiculous. I'd also like to see Wurzelbacher's DD 214 papers. Furthermore, what about John McCain who yesterday said we are losing the war in Afghanistan, isn't that talking bad about our military and an ongoing conflit? Should McCain, the Republican candidate for president, be shot?