A Sleeping Giant Awakened

A sleeping Giant has been awakened.  Richard Nixon called this giant "The Silent Majority",
the quiet, deliberate and diligent conservative.  The Silent Majority is suddenly not very silent and the Sleeping Giant is wide awake, and agitated.  The Democrats are concerned about this so they're are pulling out the stops and turning their smoke machines to full blast.  The arguents are beginning to sound kind of desperate, and sometimes just plian weird.  Here's how to spot a very weak polical argument.
1.  It's obvious that the person making the defense doesn't understand his position very well
2.  Volume substitutes for content.
3.  The argument depends on a number of wild assumptions
4.  The defense is spirited and quite emotional, but incoherent
5.  Conspiracy theories and wild assertions abound.

Here are a few examples of what such arguments might sound like.  We'll do a little point-counterpoint.


Point:  "Health Care services are not included in the 19 enumerated powers of the Constitution."
"Emotional Drivel" Counterpoint:  "You're on the fringe man.  The Constitution is so 18th century."


Point:  "Kill the Bill, Kill the Bill, Kill the Bill"
"Emotional Drivel" Counterpoint:  "Hey, those guys are inciting violence against the President."


Point:  "Gosh, I sure wish the Health Care law would encourage health care consumers to be cost conscious and allow pricing mechanisms to function in order to bring costs down".
"Emotional Drivel" Counterpoint:  "You're a racist because you don't like the new health care law"


Point:  "Wow, all of these health care write downs that companies are taking are really going to hurt retained earnings that could have been used to start new projects and hire employees"
"Emotional Drivel" Counterpoint:  "Uhhh, Dick Cheney,, uhh,, uhh, Halliburton,, uhh George Bush was behind 9-11.."


You get the point.  The Dems have had it.  They got their shot and blew it.  Although I admire the President's vigor, grit and determination, I sure hate his policies.  He also has an admirable ability to make a dog turd look as appealing as an ice cream sundae.  Unfortunately for the president, people are now close enough to the sundae to get a whiff, and all the whip cream in the world isn't going to make it smell, or taste any better.