Right now, politics is getting ugly. While conservatives are on the offensive against the Obama administration’s proposed government intrusion into health care, the Democratic Party is striking back by labeling conservatives at town hall meetings: members of organized mobs. This is the second wave of attacks on conservatives in recent weeks, the first being the fact that the left has labelled anyone who wants to see the president’s birth certificate a “birther.” Let us be very clear on this point, regardless of what the mainstream media reports over and over, Barack Hussein Obama II has not EVER released a copy of his official, long form birth certificate. More importantly, he probably never will. That said, conservatives need to take it easy on this point, since it is highly doubtful that any action will be taken to confirm whether or not Obama was a natural born citizen or not. We will have to wait for these files to come out when they release the “who killed Kennedy?” files. You win some, you lose some.

Labeling conservatives that attend town hall meetings a “mob” just shows the desperation of the Democratic party. This is not the first time that this language has been used to discredit people to the right side of the political spectrum. For decades, the communists in Cuba and their sympathizers in the United States have called the Cuban-American population of Miami a “Mafia.” You could say that calling conservatives a mob is straight out of the Castro playbook. Of course, the assertion that every Cuban-American in Miami is the member of a “mafia” is ludicrous… and if it’s true, then I have not been receiving my “mafia” checks in the mail. I am not paid to oppose communism. I am not paid to resist socialism in this country. More specifically, I am not paid to, day in and day out, try to explain on this blog and to people I meet why government intervention into the health care industry is the wrong way to go. I do it because of PATRIOTISM, that p-word that liberals dread oh-so-much. It is my patriotic duty to speak truth, to oppose any agenda that threatens our country, and to fight for the freedoms that we enjoy. Accusing conservatives and libertarians of being an angry mob that is bought and paid for by the Republican Party just shows that A) the Democrats are clueless as to what the average American thinks nowadays and B) the Democrats are out of ideas.

Patriots around the country need to take a real hard look at the liberal agenda, particularly the administration’s health care reform proposals. If they are deficit neutral or cost more money, they will fail. If they don’t talk about tort reform, they will fail. If they cannot guarantee that the majority of Americans, who like their health insurance, will not lose their coverage, they will fail. The solution to the health care problem needs to look something like this: tort reform, cutting costs, tax incentives, quality analysis, and promoting the free market. The Democrats are offering: more spending, bigger and more complicated bureaucracy, higher taxes, centrally planned rationing of health care, and more governmental control. America cannot afford what the liberals are offering… and if it takes a mob to let Washington know what we think, then so be it.

-AG