Cutting and running

Speaking of "cut and run Liberals" (and I certainly took umbrage at that phrase earlier today), here's a must-read from writer Stephen P. Pizzo courtesy of News for Real that puts things into perspective. Highlights:

I want to be perfectly clear about this. We liberals really do want to cut and run...

We want to cut and run from a government which, over the past six years, has become not only increasingly closed to public scrutiny and accountability, but overtly hostile and suspicious of citizens who insist on either.

We want to cut an run from a style of governance that not only play on fear and petty prejudices, but cultivates and exploits them for cheap political gain. The cynical, dishonest purposeful pitting of majority populations against minority groups on the grounds that they don't share "American values," and then later deny responsibility for the entirely predictable destructive consequences of those tactics.

We want to cut and run from policies that view science and scientists as adversaries whose findings must sometimes be suppressed, while embracing, even endorsing, religious dogmas that have no basis in fact whatsoever.

Read on.