"Classy vs. ClassLESS" meets CLASSIC!

The Lady Anchoress is probably one of my all-time favorite bloggers. She has elegance, eloquence and ... drat, I can't think of another "e" word... Oh! Excellence! Perfect...

The Anchoress often displays her talent for taking her opponant's stance to its logical - and ludicrous - conclusion, and does so brilliantly in "Just So I'm Clear on This New Rule."

So…if, let's say, tomorrow Jimmy Carter dies (or Ted Kennedy, or any liberal) and there is the funeral…if some conservatives get up and use the occasion to criticize liberal dignitaries in attendance, that will be okay? Because, after all, Carter, or Kennedy, or whoever "were political people?" Is this really what you want, folks?

I mean, chances are highly unlikely it would happen - conservatives tend not to do that sort of stuff - but if it ever did happen - then what? If, let's just say, someday we're watching the funeral of a former Democrat president, fer instance - and a conservative gets up and moves away from tribute and into politically charged speech…makes sneering remarks about 17% mortgage rates, or Iranian hostages, or bombing aspirin factories, or talking for years and years about WMD's, or ignoring Rwanda, or lying under oath, or accessing FBI files, or whatever - that will be okay, right?

You won't have a problem with it, because the funeral of a "political" person is now simply one more "political event," right? And sometimes crassness is called for? Can even be touted as a virtue?

Well. If those are the new rules, don't forget who made 'em up.

Yup. Exactly! I would pray most sincerely and diligently that that doesn't happen, and that we as a country return to courtesy and respect as valued character traits. However, if it does happen, and we decline into petty bickering and petulant tit-for-tat, the left side of the political spectrum had better remember who started it.

I agree with the Anchoress when she continues:

No, I would not approve. I think this is an ugly precedent, and maybe for once, just once, some liberals might stop making excuses for inappropriate behavior and consider that perhaps weddings and funerals are off-limits for political posturing and positioning.

To everything there is a season. Or, as Granny used to say, "there is a time and a place for everything…" Our culture has grown increasingly insensitive to that old adage, and things have coarsened. But there is surprising power in graciousness, which makes it worth cultivating, and those who advocate tossing it out for political expediency, well…they are depleting their own arsenals. Wars are not won with scud missiles, alone.

I would be repulsed by any party - any person - who espoused this type of rude, crass, and base behavior. Civilization cannot long survive without civility... and the left appears to be racing towards the cliff, desperate to embrace this ungracious, uncultured and uncivilized "code" of conduct.

Comments

[Angel]

1.

amen sister!...the recent events were a fiasco and the libs should b humiliated but of course theyre not...ah well..keep sheddin the light..they may jus pick up on it by accident..sigh.