Hunter says what I am thinking about the wing-nuts going after this 12 year old kid and his family. (Back story here and here) It’s appalling that it has gone this far. To me this points out a huge difference from the left-wing and the right wing. We simply are not willing to take it this far. The end result is that sometimes they go seriously overboard, but we also stop short of pushing things to the edge. The left cannot in good consciousness be this vicious and it means that we back off early. I know I can sleep at night because of it.

Right now, the Frost’s home address is posted on Free Republic. And it’s been there for gawd knows how long — nobody’s taking it down. Why would they? The kid is the latest enemy of the entire conservative movement: they want to make him pay.

No, we’ve been through all this before, and we’ll no doubt go through it again; if someone at any point so much as sends Malkin a nasty email, she writes an entire outraged self-ego-humping book about it. Someone calls out O’Reilly for a statement of appalling and unapologetic bigotry, he goes into seizures of anti-entire-planet rage. And God forbid someone dares make a schoolyard play off of an Army general’s name — the entire conservative movement freaks out and wet their goddamn pants in unison about the fucking horror of it all. But going after a kid and his family, because he read a statement on the radio? Fair. Fucking. Game. Hey, the twelve year old is an enemy. Get him.

I seem to recall spending a whole evening watching for and purging Malkin’s home address from comments, the last time the righties pulled something like this, so that she wouldn’t get the exact kind of stalking that the righties are now celebrating gleefully, again… but from their end, it’s all good. That kid had the audacity to express a political agenda, and so he, his parents and his family must be destroyed. It’s as simple as that.

Man, I wish I could rant as well as Hunter. He is such a soft spoken guy in real life. The man seriously knows how to write.