How to Beat a Liberal
By Gene Lalor
Posted On September 09, 2006

“That’s a baby,” I said to my incredulous six-year old granddaughter. I was pointing to the first of three sonograms of my new grandchild-to-be, taken at four weeks, eight weeks and twelve weeks.

“That’s not a baby!” she declared, with her usual self-assurance. And, to be sure, it didn’t look like a baby.

The mom-to-be pointed to the tiny little legs and the head, but the granddaughter was adamant. “That’s not a baby!” she repeated. I then showed her the three sonograms together and pointed out the changes over two short months. She stared at them for a moment, looking back and forth at each, studying them.

Then it happened. Epiphany! She finally believed! “It’s growing!” she blurted out, wide-eyed.

Mustering all the profundity and wisdom that age imparts, I said, “Yep,” and made a dot in her coloring book. “We all start out that small!”

With a total lack of any sensitivity to old gramp’s age and wisdom, and with no hesitation, she pretended to make another dot, and asked, “Can you see that?”

I couldn’t, of course, since there was no dot, so she clarified. “Well, when I started out, I was so small you couldn’t even see me! We all were!”

Out of the mouths of babes comes true profundity, an innate realization about life that should humble and amaze us mere adults.

Gregg Jackson begins his new book, Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies, by addressing an issue directly related to my little chat with my granddaughter: “Perhaps the most paramount and divisive social and cultural issue of the past 30 years has been abortion.” Most rational people, like Jackson and my granddaughter, know intuitively when and how life begins. Liberals either don’t know, or refuse to concede the obvious.

Jackson’s primer, “factual information on key contemporary issues to refute the claims and assertions of the left,” cannot be said to break any new ground. At this stage of national debate on the great issues and challenges of our time, there’s precious new ground to be broken. The truth is all out there to accept or reject, respect or deny. He simply consolidates, coalesces in a clear, straightforward A- to -Z format, liberal claims and conservative responses, starting with the major “A- issue,” abortion. The book should become an essential source for conservative students, writers, and thinkers. Liberals might want to own it as well. (Then again, do we want them to know how well-prepared we are to refute their lies, distortions, and twisted perspectives?)

There are echoes of Ann Coulter, absent the acerbic wit, in Conservative Comebacks, as well as many other conservative echoes in Jackson’s annotated, but not indexed, four-hundred-fourteen page book. Yet, it is unique in that it manages to cogently present the 241 "most common claims of the left" followed by the detailed responses we of the right wing all should know if we don't already.

No single chapter stands out as superior to or more indispensable than any other. The topics– ranging from “B is for Bill Clinton” to “L is for Liberal Media” to “Q is for Queer Eye for Same-Sex Marriage” to “Z is for Zealot Terrorists”– are all pertinent and exhaustive in their delineation, not just of zany Liberal Claims, but of clear-cut Conservative Responses/Refutations.

I did take special note of Jackson’s “partial list” of some forty-eight people who just happened to meet untimely deaths, and who were associated with, or investigating, or on the verge of testifying against, William Jefferson Clinton. We all remember Vince Foster (suicide, 1993) and Ron Brown (airplane crash, 1994), but how many of us recall Whitewater investigator, Jon Parnell Walker, or Gandy Baugh, attorney to Clinton’s buddy and convicted drug dealer, Don Lassater? Both of these unfortunates just happened to take swan dives off high buildings in 1993 and 1994, respectively. And, lest we forget, twelve Clinton bodyguards–all named in the book–“died of unnatural causes.” Jackson concludes this section by asking, perhaps rhetorically, perhaps not, “ Coincidence? You decide.” One coincidence, maybe. Two, three, four-- well, maybe. But forty-eight? What I decided was that I was just glad I never had the dubious pleasure of knowing Slick Willy up close and personal.

The author of Conservative Comebacks is a co-host of ; and contributing editor of PunditReview.com. From these sources, and from such conservative luminaries as Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams, Gregg Jackson gained much of the ammunition he provides in his Responses to various “ludicrous liberal claims that have no basis in truth.” (Current Events interview, August 26, 2006.) I might add to that, not just “ludicrous” but often duplicitous.

In “D is for Democrats: Why They’re Usually Wrong About Everything,” he exposes, among other falsehoods, the blatant fabrication that “Republicans are the party of rich corporate special interests.” He documents the largess doled out during the 2004 election cycle to Democrats, by individuals (such as George Soros–$12.6 million), by labor unions ( AFSCME-$35.2 million, the NEA–$23.7 million), by PACs and 527 Committees ( MoveOn.org–$2.5 million). Indeed, ninety-seven percent of all 527 money went to Democrats. Most fascinating is his listing of the fourteen richest Democrat politicians, all coincidentally United States Senators. These include the relatively impoverished Harry Reid, (worth a paltry $2 million), the alleged smartest woman in the world, Hillary Clinton ($8 million), the inimitable Teddy Kennedy ($30 million–not counting his liquor cabinet), and the Viet Nam veteran, John Heinz Kerry, (awash in $620,000,000, albeit mostly catsup money.) Not bad for the party of the common folk.

Jackson defends the Second Amendment and the NRA, attacks the Democratic/socialist notion of a health care system that would amount to an eighty-percent rate of taxation. He refutes the obvious but nevertheless disputed truth that the media is unbiased. He torpedoes Al Gore’s inconvenient fiction that human activities are causing global warming. (Gosh, Al, Mars is going through a global warming cycle! Are we causing THAT as well?) He explains how the Kyoto Protocol would be disastrous for the United States, an insidious formula to tilt the playing field so that, as we decline, China and India can have their turn as superpowers in our stead. He decries and exposes the incessant drumbeat of Bush-bashing for what it is: a visceral liberal effort to destroy a presidency. It began in November, 2000, and won’t end until he is impeached by a Democratic Congress as retribution and vengeance for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Fortunately, no matter what ultimately happens to Bush, he’ll never have a Monica or a blue dress problem. The albatross of Clinton’s legacy, LyingUnderOath-Gate, can’t ever be expunged.

“K is for Kids–The Leftist Indoctrination of Our Children” deals with the sorry state of public education, and the “how-to-do-it” classes in sex education. (Maybe you can’t read, kids, but you have awesome self-esteem! Now, does anyone know why I’m holding this cucumber?)

“L is for Liberal Media...Agenda, Agenda, Agenda” focuses on the bizarre leftist claim that liberal bias doesn’t exist in colleges and universities, or in the national media that voted 89% for Clinton. Rest assured that Dan Rather and the late Peter Jennings cast aside party affiliation when they entered that polling booth! As for universities, their non-partisan faculties no doubt teach and lecture objectively at Cornell (where 6 of 172 faculty members were non-Democratic, non-Green Party members), and at Stanford (17 of 168), at UCLA (9 of 150), and at the University of Colorado at Boulder–where tenured Ward Churchill still spews his anti-American vitriol (5 of 121).

There’s much more to Conservative Comebacks, of course. (It’s unfortunate that the book was published before the premier in Toronto of that dandy, new British film about the assassination of George Bush. It’s sure to be in a theater near you soon after the premier on September 10!)

Jackson outs the liberal fictions that:

-- “Ten percent of the population is homosexual.” (Maybe in San Francisco, Key West and Greenwich Village, but not in the real world.)

-- Affirmative Action is fair, good, and beneficial to America. (Tell that to those who applied to the University of Michigan and who were awarded four points for being the child of an alumnus, twelve points for a perfect SAT score, but twenty points for having black skin.)

-- Social Security is in fine shape, so leave it alone. (Jackson: “Social Security is in serious danger and is going bankrupt...The system is broken.” Amen!)

-- Taxes are a wonderful thing, the more the better! (Personally, I agree with Emerson that “taxes are the price we pay for civilization,” but I agree moreso with Jackson-- that our excessive taxes are confiscatory, unfair and inequitable, and amount to a major hurdle in achieving the American Dream.)

-- We need more diversity, less religion, more illegal immigration, and less xenophobic, jingoistic national pride. (Jackson: “Without. . . our shared language, borders, history, traditions and culture . . . we will become a sharply divided nation.” Will become?)

-- School vouchers for private schools will destroy public education. (I guess the fifty-percent of United States Senators, thirty-four percent of House members, forty-five percent of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and the thirty-two percent of the Congressional Black Caucus who send their own progeny to private schools beg to differ. How does that saying go? Do as I say, not as I do?)

-- The Founding Fathers were racist, non-Christian, and wanted a separation of church and state. (Well, they weren’t racists, but in any event we abolished slavery a century and a half ago; it’s still alive and well in Africa. Jackson cites numerous references that show Madison, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and Hamilton, and most of the other founders were not only God-fearing Christians but also felt that a belief in God was a requisite for any nation’s well-being. As for their believing in a “separation of church and state,” that’s poppycock. I’m still looking for that phrase in the Constitution.)

-- The Patriot Act and profiling are un-American and un-Constitutional. (One, the Patriot Act is working, as does wiretapping those out to kill us. And, two, profiling can work–if we do it intelligently. We must “screen airline passengers to make sure people who fit the airlines’ threat profiles were being prevented from boarding American planes.” Jackson didn’t say that. The New York Times did in 2001.)

(To be fair, I have to admit that I disagree with Jackson on a few issues, specifically in “E is for Economics,” where he tries to defend Republicans as more fiscally responsible than Democrats. That used to be the case , but he somewhat disingenuously avoids mention of the current Republican Congress and administration and the six years–and counting–of spending like drunken Democrats. I’d also take issue with his suggestion that our health care system--H is for Health Care, is just hunky-dorey. It isn’t. Finally, I’d disagree that we should continue our misguided, blind support for Israel--I Is for Independent Israel: Why We Need to Support the Only Middle East Democracy. With an ally like Israel, we don’t need enemies in the Mid East. We’d also have more friends there if we adopted a more even-handed policy.)

Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies is not a handbook to be consulted halfway through a college debate. It’s more a reference textbook, to be studied and cited in order to refute the peculiar and disturbed fantasies, the canards, the maliciousness of America’s liberals. If nothing else, liberals are often very well educated, very prepared, and very intent on tearing down what is good in America. To insure that they fail, Conservatives must become better educated, more attuned to their wiles, and better prepared to defend what we hold true when liberals launch their offensives.

I think we should always keep in mind Reagan’s “shining city on the hill,” that prosperous, powerful, united, safe and secure America that once was and which can be again. My personal hope, (a modest one, I think), is that my grandchildren grow up in a nation that is as great as, or better than, the nation I once knew.

Conservative Comebacks can help with all of the above.

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