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why are democrats and liberals so gullable?

Published Aug. 25, 2008

The Democratic National Convention is a great time to reflect on the Conundrum of The Century: Why are our liberal buddies so amazingly gullible? Why do they fall for the most obvious scam artists? Why, when Hillary crashes, do they slobber all over the next edition of God's Anointed on Earth?

When Obama went body surfin' in Hawaii before the convention, we had a chance to hear The Aloha State's very own brand of liberal love. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin quoted one sun-tanned beauty saying:  
"He's genuine. You can feel his aloha,"

... said 41-year-old Sama Evaimalo, a Hanauma Bay tram dispatcher.   
"I never voted in my life, and I said I was going to vote if it was a woman or a black man that was running."    
Well, bless her sweet little aloha. There's another well-informed vote for the Big O. Remember, your vote counts for just as much as Sama Evaimalo's. Aloha-ayy!
A Defect

French thinkers of the Enlightenment used to consider "gullibility" a kind of mental defect. They thought it was a breakdown of the rational intellect.   
Gullibility is not listed in the psychiatry manual today, but it's pretty dysfunctional in real life. If you fall for just about any used car salesman, or any danceaway lover, or any telemarketer, or any smarmy politician, you're going to make big mistakes. It could cost you your country.
John Edwards was a bad 'un, as anybody with a grain of sense could tell as soon as we saw ol' John spending twenty minutes making love to his own reflection in the mirror during the '04 campaign. It reminded me of an old Feiffer cartoon about a New York bachelorette who turns up her nose at one suitor after another, and then goes home, looks in the mirror, and says, "Now you I could like!"
There are loving couples who look like identical twins; they have fallen in love with their own reflections.
In his stellar career suing big corporations, rich doctors, insurance companies and other evil-doers, Edwards' figured out how to play his juries against the Evil Rich. That paid for Edwards' mansion  after he famously channeled the soul of an unborn baby during a lawsuit against an obstetrician who had waited for 90 minutes before doing a Caesarian section. John Edwards felt -- actually felt -- the brain-injured baby speaking through him in his closing arguments to the jury.  
"She speaks to you through me ... And I have to tell you right now - I didn't plan to talk about this -- right now I feel her. I feel her presence. She's inside me, and she's talking to you."
I don't know if Sama Evaimalo was on that jury, but her brothers and sisters in spirit were. After soaking up all that good aloha they came back with a $ 6.5 million verdict for the plaintiff.  Call it a good 2 million bucks for John Edwards. Edwards' reputation soared in the plaintiff bar, which funds a good deal of the Democratic Party. With the enthusiastic help of other lawyers  Edwards mounted a Robin Hood vs. the Sheriff of Nottingham campaign for the presidency in 2004.
And the liberals fell for it. That's what is shocking. 
Just think about it. From the comfortable limo libs of the New York Times to millions of little old ladies in tennis shoes, they fell down and Believed in John. Edwards' own wife, who should have known better, made a play for public sympathy and support for John's campaign after she developed cancer.  It was shameless, but the media whooped it up. Rielle Hunter, flying around with him on the campaign plane and cheating, apparently just trusted his plain ole' boy sincerity. Even Walter Isaacs, grand old lodge-master of all right-thinking journalists, fell for him like a school girl.  
All the professional media fell flat on their faces for John Edwards except the National Enquirer, and you know what they're like. Not real professionals. 
H.L. Mencken would have busted a gut laughing. 
It's not surprising that hustlers like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama rise to the top of the Democratic Party. What continues to astonish the saner fraction of the world is the abject gullibility of their followers. If the libs ever wised up, the Democratic Party would have to go out of business.   But there's no danger of that. There's another one born every minute. They call them infants, and if they're liberals they never have to grow up.