17Chris Matthews is an asshole. I have more personal examples than I can count where I have busted my ass to help someone who just so happens to be a liberal. That person repays this help with insults, ingratitude, nastiness and a sense of entitlement. Yes, I know, I’m a sucker for putting up with it. But I love this person. This person is family and I can’t turn my back on them.
More from Ace:
Because [they] are pursuing in their minds some greater good involving the abstract, in the tangible ethical decisions of everyday life, they cheat and behave more selfishly than conservatives — because they feel they’re already doing some moral thing like only buying local produce so that gives them some wiggle room to behave unethically in their personal lives. Papal indulgences again, in other words.
Conservatives believe the opposite. We think we have a high duty to perform ethically in our personal real lives and less of a duty to just generally give money or other support to people we don’t know and never could know. We’re sort of against alienation of the moral sense from its ultimate object.
I’ve never been to a Tea Party, but I am very sympathetic to their aims. I have wanted to get involved for the longest time. Because I agree with the Tea Party’s concerns, Arianna Huffington, Oprah Winfrey, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert would call me “insane” (they are supporters of the so-called “Rally for Sanity”, an anti-Tea Party rally). Because I agree with the Tea Party on the Constitution and responsible government, Janeane Garofalo and Carrie Fisher would consider me a “racist”. Now, according to Chris Matthews and other liberal pundits, I am also a selfish, “every man for himself” kind of woman.
Unlike the above people who would condemn me for agreeing with the Tea Party movement, I am not rich. I use what little money I have to help people, particularly people who probably call me a “teabagger” behind my back.
