When the guard is down

Parker Griffith, Democratic candidate for Congress in Alabama's 5th District said this a few weeks ago:

I think America's greatest enemy is America and its materialism.

And I think that . . . uh . . . we have nothing to fear from radical Islam. We have nothing to fear from any other religion if we are strong on our own beliefs. I don't fear radical Islam.

Further evidence of what the Left in this country really thinks. The only thing we have to fear is...America!

In the interest of fairness (which I will probably be required by law to do under The Obama Administration) I should say that the candidate has tried to spin the remarks and say they were taken out of context. Read that story here.

Maybe the remarks were taken out of context, to an extent. But, the larger issue to me is this: There are a hell of a lot of people that would agree with those exact words, context or not.

And do you think those people reside on the Right, or on the Left?

I have leaned Libertarian most of my life, and in fact, I've never voted a straight Republican ticket. But the more and more I see of this type of thinking coming from the other side, it brings me inexorably closer to an unmovable position: Until the Democratic party purges itself of those who believe this naive, stupid and dangerous nonsense, I have zero interest in "reaching across the aisle".