This is an Urban Legend…not the Reagan Commandment but the notion that it’s heeded. Just spend any amount of time on Free Republic and you’ll see what I mean. It’s only applied to “certain” conservatives. If you don’t measure up, if you differ your opinion on certain issues…regardless of how conservative you are with everything else you’ll get flamed. Why do you think the term RINO exists, even though it violates the commandment. See what I mean?

And the infighting happens a lot more than you realize apparently. The paleo-cons war with the neo-cons. The libertarians war with the social conservatives. The anti-drug crowd wars with the libertarians. They’re all conservatives of one stripe or another but they don’t get along.

So don’t tell me that it’s one big happy family that doesn’t speak ill of each other. Because that’s bunk.

Conservatives tend to take no hostages, they never give second chances and they are fiercely loyal to their own.

Unfortunately it’s my experience that that is not true. I know plenty of liberals who do the group think thing. My mom is one. I think maybe that you need to differentiate between idealogues and non-idealogues. Liberal idealogues do do the group think thing. Liberal non-idealogues do not.

Liberals share different interests, we tend not to like the political food fights akin to a wrestling match, although I do, but most on my side of the aisle really don’t. I am not the first to say it is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between a Vince McMahon or a Rupert Murdoch production. You all love that red meat and you all tend to watch that kind of thing 24/7.

Liberals do not neccessarily relish that kind of mean behavior. We have other outlets, we just do not choose to park ourselves in front of the boob tube listening to Shannity & O’Lielly…LOL. I personally like a good political fight, although Fox always pads it to favor the Conservative which taints the debate and takes the honesty out of it, which makes it nothing more than a form of verbal WWE.

In addition Conservatives need to be reassured on a daily basis by their demagogues and idealogues, they need to “kick their adversaries to the curb” in other words to feel self worth. They feel this is their right since they have been kept down for so long - the odd balls out who don’t really fit into what mainstream America really is.

They also need to be able to invoke damination to all who disagree misquoting the Bible at every chance.

Liberals do not do this, we think for ourselves, we do not band together in a “drunken orgy of group think”. We are free thinkers and could care less who knows, it doesn’t really matter to us.

We do not need to watch 24 hour Cable News and listen to Talk Radio to be reassured, to feel alive and whole.

It’s nice to see actual journalism in this day and age rather than 3 jerks just talking about the news.

There’s a difference between a ‘predominantly Muslim school’ and a madrassah, as I suspect you very well know. It’s as much a difference as between a Catholic High School and a monastery.

The FNC story was an attempt to get both Clinton and Obama and it was pretty pathetic.

His middle name is Hussein….he has Muslim in his background…..America, run for your lives, the man’s gonna be soft on radicals and terrorism.

Its no different than the bigoted rant the right tried to perpetrate about Keith Ellison and the Quoran.

Kurtz’s article, further, is inaccurate. The quote from Gretchen Carlson wasn’t a reference to “those on the show”. It was something she said after a caller made a rather generalized remark about “Muslims”; in order to correct the false impression left by the caller, she was differentiating most Muslims from the violent few. But funny, it doesn’t come out that way in Kurtz’s piece.

This whole kerfuffle was started because of piece of propaganda from Think Progress, which used heavily edited video to give an almost wholly false impression of how the original discussion went. So I have an axe to grind about this, because nothing that fraudulent should be permitted to poison the debate. Kurtz’s article is nowhere near as bad, but neither is it good. IMNSHO.

JD, I see your point completely and agree. I don’t think and serious journalist should be reporting out of Insight Magazine.