Dec
13
2004

quote of the day: liberal terrorist

“These are common-sense, grass-roots ideas from the people I represent, and I’d be very surprised if a majority of legislators didn’t feel they were the right solutions to these problems…

“It’s like when the hijackers took over those four planes on Sept. 11 and took people to a place where they didn’t want to go … I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country somewhere we don’t want to go. I think a lot more people realize this is our country and we’re going to take it back.”

- Missouri state representative Cynthia Davis, on efforts to introduce more conservative legislation at the state level. (New York Times: “Christian Conservatives Turn to Statehouses” - 12/13/04)

Her specious comparison of liberals to terrorists both disturbs and angers me. It’s a horrible and completely irrelevant comparison, and only serves to further deepen ideological divisions.

Posted at 11:51 AM in quotable

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