There is more than one bottomless well that the Left returns to again and again.
The stupidity and ignorance that renders these people utterly oblivious to the significance of the date 1773 would not have been exposed without the arrogance and extreme pettiness that motivates them to lie in wait for each and every one of Sarah Palin’s public utterances. And for what? To “prove” yet again what any of these folks (and keep in mind we’re talking about elites–the Kos and Gwen Ifill) would surely claim is established fact: Sarah Palin is dumb.
The same stupidity, ignorance, pettiness and arrogance are all on display with the flap over Christine O’Donnell wanting to know where “separation of church and state” appears in the Constitution. They rush to laugh and jeer at the notion that the phrase isn’t in the First Amendment.
Slow to realize their embarrassing mistake and utterly incapable of experiencing shame, they double down. They pretend that they were talking all along about subsequent case law that cites Jefferson’s “separation of church and state,” that their ridicule was meant in an airy, metaphorical sense and that their figurative readings (of the law, mind you) are somehow superior to those of the literal-minded “teabaggers” who are actually aware of the First Amendment’s contents.
Everywhere, with every issue, you can see these people employ ridicule instead of argument and dogma instead of ideas.
