Brendan Loy Has Had It With the Left

He writes:

This is why my problem with the Left is so serious, so deep and abiding. It’s not just about Iraq. It’s about the whole war on terrorism. I sometimes find myself doubting that, but I shouldn’t. THESE PEOPLE DO NOT TAKE THE THREAT OF TERRORISM SERIOUSLY. They simply refuse to understand that we are at war. The notion of such people ever running the country is absolutely terrifying.

Look, I support a healthy skepticism (not to be confused with an unhealthy cynicism) toward the government. Not everything that the White House or Scotland Yard says should be automatically treated as gospel. But you should trust the government unless there is some reason not to. And objectively, there is absolutely nothing — nothing — about today’s developments that even remotely hints at conspiracy, fabrication or exaggeration. The lefties “question the timing,” as always, claiming that there are political circumstances which make today’s announcement oh-so-convenient. Oh, grow up! An argument can always be made that such circumstances exist. (And when your best argument is that the Brits concocted or exaggerated this plot to help Bush distract Americans from… Ned Lamont’s Connecticut Senate primary victory?!?… you may want to reconsider your conspiracy theory. I mean, good lord, are these people completely out of their freaking minds?!?)

Alleging that an ulterior motive could hypothetically exist is not enough. You need to allege facts, or at least poke some serious holes in the official story, if you’re going to claim that the government is lying about something this serious. And every single detail that has emerged strongly suggests that this was a very, very serious plot, and that officials have acted in precisely the manner that they should. There is nothing at all “suspicious” about waiting to reveal a plot until arrests have been made, and in turn, waiting to make arrests until law enforcement believes the moment is right. Indeed, that’s exactly how these investigations should be conducted. But the lefties — and these are mainstream liberal bloggers, not wingnut extremists culled from the depths of the Kos diaries — don’t care about that, because they view George W. Bush as a greater threat than the 29 terrorists who wanted to kill 2,700 innocent civilians for sport. When presented with two alternative explanations for a set of facts — either Bush & Blair and their entire governments are willfully deceiving and manipulating the public in an utterly reprehensible and indefensible manner, or a group of 29 jihadis really did plot to kill several thousand of us — they find the latter less plausible than the former. Un-freaking-believeable.

This has been a watershed week for me. First the Dems purge one of their most honorable, decent, principled members, in the process demonstrating to me that I no longer belong in their party. Then the liberal blogosphere shows its true colors by responding to manifestly the gravest mass terrorism threat since 9/11 with a mixture of juvenile temper tantrum and raving-lunatic conspiracy theory. The next time I hestitate to say that “many liberals don’t take the war on terrorism seriously” because I want to be P.C. and give ‘em the benefit of the doubt and avoid seeming to question anyone’s patriotism, I’ll look back on this day and remember how the Left reacted when the forces of civilization thwarted an attempt by the forces of evil, Islamonihilist terror to commit an unprecedented crime against humanity in the skies over the Atlantic Ocean.

Pathetic.

Indeed! This is the week they jumped the shark.

Read his blog here.