{"id":890,"date":"2012-09-27T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=890"},"modified":"2012-09-27T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T15:32:00","slug":"let-me-tell-you-what-is-at-stake-in-this-election-okay-not-me-but-a-barton-hinkle-the-wrong-side-must-not-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/09\/let-me-tell-you-what-is-at-stake-in-this-election-okay-not-me-but-a-barton-hinkle-the-wrong-side-must-not-win.html","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Tell You What Is At Stake In This Election (okay, not me, but A. Barton Hinkle) The Wrong Side Must Not Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I found this article via my friend Ginny (shout out to Ginny who reads this blog :-)). It was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch<\/a>, and was reprinted at Reason.com<\/a> \u2013 a site I\u2019m not familiar with. I had to share it because it makes me laugh \u2013 mostly at myself! I didn\u2019t reproduce the whole thing, so please visit the Richmond Times-Dispatch to read the end of the article.<\/p>\n

The past several weeks have made one thing crystal-clear: Our country faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins.<\/p>\n

No reasonably intelligent person can deny this. All you have to do is look at the way the Other Side has been running its campaign. Instead of focusing on the big issues that are important to the American People, it has fired a relentlessly negative barrage of distortions, misrepresentations, and flat-out lies.<\/p>\n

Just look at the Other Side\u2019s latest commercial, which take a perfectly reasonable statement by the candidate for My Side completely out of context to make it seem as if he is saying something nefarious. This just shows you how desperate the Other Side is and how willing it is to mislead the American People.<\/p>\n

The Other Side also has been hammering away at My Side to release certain documents that have nothing to do with anything, and making all sorts of outrageous accusations about what might be in them. Meanwhile, the Other Side has stonewalled perfectly reasonable requests to release its own documents that would expose some very embarrassing details if anybody ever found out what was in them. This just shows you what a bunch of hypocrites they are.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the media won\u2019t report any of this. Major newspapers and cable networks jump all over anything they think will make My Side look bad. Yet they completely ignore critically important and incredibly relevant information that would be devastating to the Other Side if it could ever be verified.<\/p>\n

I will admit the candidates for My Side do make occasional blunders. These usually happen at the end of exhausting 19-hour days and are perfectly understandable. Our leaders are only human, after all. Nevertheless, the Other Side inevitably makes a big fat deal out of these trivial gaffes, while completely ignoring its own candidates\u2019 incredibly thoughtless and stupid remarks \u2013 remarks that reveal the Other Side\u2019s true nature, which is genuinely frightening.<\/p>\n

My Side has produced a visionary program that will get the economy moving, put the American People back to work, strengthen national security, return fiscal integrity to Washington, and restore our standing in the international community. What does the Other Side have to offer? Nothing but the same old disproven, discredited policies that got us into our current mess in the first place.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t take my word for it, though. I recently read about an analysis by an independent, nonpartisan organization that supports My Side. It proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that everything I have been saying about the Other Side was true all along. Of course, the Other Side refuses to acknowledge any of this. It is too busy cranking out so-called studies by so-called experts who are actually\u00a0\u00a0nothing but partisan hacks. This just shows you that the Other Side lives in its own little echo chamber and refuses to listen to anyone who has not already drunk its Kool-Aid.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it: The Other Side is held hostage by a radical, failed ideology. I have been doing some research on the Internet, and I have learned this ideology was developed by a very obscure but nonetheless profoundly influential writer with a strange-sounding name who enjoyed brief celebrity several decades ago. If you look carefully, you can trace nearly all the Other Side\u2019s policies for the past half-century back to the writings of this one person.<\/p>\n

To be sure, the Other Side also has been influenced by its powerful supporters. These include a reclusive billionaire who has funded a number of organizations far outside the political mainstream; several politicians who have said outrageous things over the years; and an alarmingly large number of completely clueless ordinary Americans who are being used as tools and don\u2019t even know it.<\/p>\n

Finish reading here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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