My friend Pete

I listen and read from both liberal and conservative sources.  I try to be rational but I know that's not quite objective!

On facebook, which I became a member of a couple of years ago, I have a "facebook friend", the mayor of a small town in Washington, Pete, who is very vocally liberal.  Sometimes I agree with what he says but mostly I am shocked at his, but mainly his "friends", vigorous defamation of all that is conservative. 

I believe, like many others, that candidate Romney is somewhat liberal in his views.  I am disappointed with this choice as I thought he wasn't the best of the choices but that's neither here nor there.

Recently, Mayor Pete had a diatribe on facebook about how evil Romney was and how could he do what he was doing in criticizing President Obama over the recent attacks in the middle east resulting in the death of our Libyan Ambassador and three others. 

I have to agree with Mayor Pete on this because I doubt that Romney would do much different. 

But then Mayor Pete made this comment and I quote, "A man that has experienced poverty has empathy for others the way a man who has never experienced hardship never could. A Community Organizer vs a Venture Capitalists. One sees people's needs and value and the other sees people as either Assets or Liabilities. I really don't see any similarity. One is a Pragmatic Centrist and the other is an Opportunist doing exactly what he is told."

So I being the sarcastic individual that I can be replied that I agreed with his last sentence, in that Romney is a Pragmatic Centrist while Obama is doing exactly what he is told....

I knew that wasn't what Mayor Pete meant but it isn't that far off from being true, at least in my mind! 

The problem I have with Mayor Pete and his ilk is that they don't have any wiggle room for their man to be wrong.  I disliked President Bush's policy on illegal aliens and thought that he and President Obama were close on at least that ideal.  Mayor Pete and his real life secretary and facebook friend, Diane, along with their friends cannot admit to one thing being wrong with their man....why is that?

Why is it that I can truly not be happy with Candidate Romney and find many faults with him yet they cannot find ONE fault with their own candidate?  I found lots wrong with the latter President Bush and aired them openly.  Why is it impossible for them to find one fault with their own party? 

To me this completely rigid look at the world is scary to say the least.  No matter what Obama does, they will love it.  If he goes to war with Iran tomorrow they will love it.  Yet, I find myself(and there are many like me including the liberals most hated foe, Rush Limbaugh, who started this ruckus on facebook) more like a yo-yo and going back and forth on stuff the more conservative candidates do.  How can the liberals be so blind that everything their candidate does is right?

One day I made a comment on one of Mayor Pete's rants that President Clinton was pretty embarrassing when it came to women and Pete actually responded that at least President Clinton was trying, at the time of Monica, to be faithful and fix his marriage.  I truly almost fell out of my chair on that comment....truly is he and his followers that blinded?