Of Dissent and Double-Standards...

First I was thinking "Booyah! Now that Obama's won, I'll be considered patriotic for my dissent instead of... well, my patriotism." Then I remembered Sarah Palin and the vicious treatment she endured that never would have been tolerated had she had a "D" after her name.

Which, when you think about it, is something I should have known since Clarence Thomas.

If you're a leftist and a woman or black or "a dissenter" or any other ones of the myriad of groups the left has divided us into, no one can say anything about your opinions because if they do, out comes the sexist/racist/how-dare-you-question-my-patriotism brickbats. But if you're not a leftist, it doesn't matter what you are, express your non-leftist opinions and out come the brickbats.