Nuance Schmooance

DEN says in his recent update:
“He [his work/lunchmate] gets red in the face just thinking about the unreasonable Dems who are trying to block the appontment of conservative judges. It got a little scary at lunch today - I thought he was going to have a stroke because I said that the Republicans were every bit as evil as the Dems and have played thir [sic] own tricks to block nominees in the past. It dawned on me that those whose brains demand black and white answers tend to be conservative. Creative minds - with a high tolerence for ambiguity and an inability to accept binary choices - tend to be liberal. The comforting thought is that despite the current lack of character in moderate leadership - conservatives always lose - at least they have so far in the history of intellectual, artistic and political experience.”

This supposed nuanced argument that liberals hold (that their judges were also blocked in the past by Republicans) neglects one salient fact. When Republicans were blocking judges in the 90’s, THEY WERE IN THE MAJORITY. They tied a few of these “out of the main stream” Clinton nominations up in committee because they had the votes. Now Dems, who don’t now have the votes, have been tying up (mostly appelate court) nominees with the use of the filibuster. It sounds to me that the libs are the ones with binary [mis]thinking. And as far as that last assinine statement is concerned -- about conservatives being the enemy of intellectual thought, politics, and the arts; I can think of no greater age of barren ideas, artistic achievement and political gain than the 1960’s, the cradle of our current liberal nihilists. And the Popes, who commissioned all that great Renessaince art, as far as I can recall, were not campaigning for same-sex marriage.

And by the way -- isn't "Conservatives are BAD and Liberals are GOOD" an example of black and white thinking?