Dems don't get the feline modus operandi

The unequivocally unherdable Tiny could have told you but wouldn't have thought it necessary to point out, as Thomas Lifson does today, that "Herding cats is a lot easier than controlling bloggers." Shortly after this picture was taken, Tiny went off to blog bag a chipmunk.

"The concept propounded by Hillary Clinton has really taken hold of a lot of minds, despite its laughable implausibility to anyone who has ever met more than two bloggers," writes Thomas Lifson of The American Thinker re the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy's paranoia re us free thinkers who don't march in lockstep with their politically correct party line:

The entire reason for starting a blog is to speak one’s own mind in a publishing environment you yourself control. Herding cats is a lot easier than controlling bloggers. They are likely to start fisking the would-be conspirator.

Thomas then goes on to quote Charles Johnson re the left's aversion to anything that doesn't fit their storyline:

I had a telephone conversation with the author of the LA Times hit piece (Peter Wallsten) last week, and he asked me several times if I knew who “Buckhead” was (no), or if I had been in contact with anyone from the RNC (no), or if I knew of any other bloggers who had been in contact with the RNC (no). His agenda was clear even then.

Here’s another interesting fact. I’ve now spoken to at least a dozen newspapers, and had my words quoted many times. In every conversation I’ve made sure to point out that I’ve voted Democratic my whole life, but that I now support President Bush. Not one of these papers thought this was noteworthy enough to print, and with the publication of this LA Times smear job we see why: it doesn’t fit their program.

Yet MORE fruits of Paul Mirengoff's "Cheating Heart of the Democratic Party," blogged here yesterday and reinforced again here today. Being pack-mentality animals themselves, they don't get the feline modus operandi. We're reminded of Mr. X's article in the New York Sun a couple of weeks back as he describes his fellow Upper West Siders' hysterical -- bordering on violent -- inability to deal with his independent political point of view:

I am no longer a person with another point of view. I am now the enemy.

Clearly ignorance and a pack mentality trump common sense in my town these days.

[via A Map of the Cat]

We took the courageous step of putting our Bush '04 sticker on the SUV this weekend. Upper West Side, Massachusetts, Mr. X and we are definitely living in enemy territory.

Comments

[willow]

Wow...you're brave.

If my car wasn't leased, I might do the same thing. As it is I'm afraid it would get keyed.

On another note, a friend of mine had her Kerry/Edwards sticker on her car removed after having parked it in the mountains for a few days. They didn't damage her car, just removed the sticker.

[Sissy Willis]

You could say the mountain folk were increasing the value of the car by removing the Kerry/Edwards sticker. :)