Michael Barone, who will be a Locke Headliner Luncheon speaker on October 7th, writes this about our liberal friends:
I would submit that the president’s call for an end to “bickering” and
the charges of racism by some of his supporters are the natural reflex
of people who are not used to hearing people disagree with them and who
are determined to shut them up.
and this:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned us that there’s a danger that intense
rhetoric can provoke violence, and no decent person wants to see harm
come to our president or other leaders. But it’s interesting that the
two most violent incidents at this summer’s town hall meetings came
when a union thug beat up a 65-year-old black conservative in Missouri
and when a liberal protester bit off part of a man’s finger in
California.
These incidents don’t justify a conclusion that all liberals are
violent. But they are more evidence that American liberals, unused to
hearing dissent, have an impulse to shut it down.
