Carr: You might be a liberal if ... you're delusional

By Howie Carr11 hours ago

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You may be a liberal if you believe that allowing working people to keep a few more of the dollars they earned themselves is a "boondoggle" and a "gimmick."

You may be a Massachusetts liberal if you think that the annual sales tax holiday weekend "diverts" money from "education," by which you mean teachers unions, and from "the MBTA," by which you mean handouts for T hacks who retired with full pensions at age 41.

By this definition of diversion, every time you drive past a bank and don't rob it, you have "diverted" the money inside by not stealing it from its rightful owners.

The annual sales tax weekend in Massachusetts was approved by the Legislature last week, but not without some more absurd rhetoric from the hackerama. The solons' gripe is that not grabbing that extra $25 million from taxpayers to give to non-taxpayers is "throwing it out the window."

Remember, this is the state that two years ago admitted to annually handing out at least $1.8 billion in welfare to illegal aliens. That of course is money well spent, because it's for non-working, non-English-speaking non-citizens. What could possibly be fairer than that?

The website American Thinker recently ran a piece headlined, "You May Be a Liberal if…." The point was that moonbat rhetoric is increasingly diverging from reality. I think after this week I can make a few additions to their list.

You may be a liberal if you want to string up the dentist who shot Cecil the Lion, but you think the ghouls at Planned Parenthood all deserve Profiles in Courage awards.

You may be a liberal if you feel you have to apologize for saying "All Lives Matter."

You may be a liberal if you oppose funding charter schools for inner-city kids even as you send your own children to private schools.

You may be a liberal if you support higher taxes but have directed the trustees of your own trust fund to buy only municipal bonds - tax-free munis, that is.

You may be a liberal if you want to ban Christmas trees from the public square as you simultaneously demand prayer rooms for the new Muslim "refugees" in public schools.

You may be a liberal if you dismiss the coldest, snowiest winter on record as "weather," but truly believe that two days with temperatures over 90 degrees represent "climate change."

You may be a liberal if you believe that felons and illegal aliens should be allowed to vote, but not the military.

You may be a liberal if you believe in confiscating legally registered guns from law-abiding citizens, but agree with Barack Obama and Eric Holder that existing federal firearms laws should never, ever be used against inner-city gang-bangers who are actually committing crimes with illegal weapons.

You may be a liberal if you support Obamacare for everyone else, but are outraged when it's suggested that you yourself might have to eventually give up your own gold-plated health insurance.

You may be a liberal if you believe that George Stephanopoulos and Brian Williams are "journalists."

You may be a liberal if you support open borders, but live in a gated community.

You may be a liberal if you didn't care when John Kerry's second wife's first husband's trust fund bought him a $7.5-million yacht, after which he evaded paying Mass. sales taxes or town excise taxes on it, but when Sen. Marco Rubio spent $80,000 on a fishing boat, that was an "extravagant purchase" of a "luxury speedboat," as the New York Times fulminated.

You may be a liberal if whenever some nut shoots up a movie theater, you automatically believe some lying liberal media outlet like ABC News or the Daily Beast when they falsely report that the perp was a member of the Tea Party.

You may be a liberal if you haven't attended a candlelight vigil against war and those genocidal CIA drones of George W. Bush since Jan. 20, 2009.

You may be a liberal if you think it's a front-page hate crime for a cop to defend himself against a charging thug, but when an unemployed drug-dealing Mexican burglar guns down three Native Americans in cold blood on an Indian reservation in Montana - nothing to see here folks, move along.

You may be a liberal if you think John Kerry deserves a Nobel Peace Prize of his own, just like Yasser Arafat and Barack Obama, for giving the mullahs $150 billion to develop their own nuclear weapons.

You most assuredly are a Massachusetts liberal if, after bloviating about how unfair it is to give bitter clingers a sales-tax holiday, you now plan to spend the weekend of Aug. 15-16 shopping till you drop, instead of driving to New Hampshire to beat the sales tax the way you do the other 51 weekends of the year.