When a Liberal Left Dissent and Moves to the Right

Keith Thompson, writer for the San Fransisco Chronicle, put it succinctly as to why he's leaving the left:

Leaving the left I can no longer abide the simpering voices of self styled progressives -- people who once championed solidarity.

And what was the championed solidarity that the Left lacked (actually they've lacked this ever since the Abraham Lincoln days)? He gives one sobering example (and a big reason why the Left lost the election, too):

Eight-million Iraqi voters have finished risking their lives to endorse freedom and defy fascism. Three things happen in rapid succession. The right cheers. The left demurs. I walk away from a long-term intimate relationship. I'm separating not from a person but a cause: the political philosophy that for more than three decades has shaped my character and consciousness, my sense of self and community, even my sense of cosmos. I'm leaving the left -- more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time
together.

And he makes a good appeal on his decision to move to the right:

My estrangement hasn't happened overnight. Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was coming for more than three decades, yet refused to truly see. Now it's all too obvious. Leading voices in America's "peace" movement are actually cheering against self determination for a long-suffering Third World country because they hate George W. Bush more than they love freedom.

This is what the Republican right has stood for...freedom. This has been the number one idealogy of the right (mostly). The Left continues to trap themselves (thanks Howard Dean!) in their march toward socialistic ideals instead who would rather control you and your minds, instead.

Thank God for the men and women in the Armed Forces who have helped set root on Freedom around the world.

Welcome home Keith Thompson, the prodigal son.

Now, when it comes to supporting Freedom this is what Democrat Zell Miller has warned us about:

I can remember when Democrats believed it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

Common sense certainly prevailed here.

Semper Fi.