When Conservatives Are as Dopey as Liberals ...

With no apologies, I admit that I’m happier when the only passengers on the Crazy Train are liberals.  It’s fun to see them say and do dopey things as the train goes careening down the tracks. Fun is good, right?

But it troubles me – more than you might think – when I see conservatives filling up half the train and behaving like the screwballs on the Left.

I’m bringing this up now because liberals, as you probably know, are in a tizzy (or at least claim to be) because Mitt Romney talked about having “binders full of women” at hand when he was governor of Massachusetts, an obvious reference to binders full of women’s resumes which he used to hire some of them.

Everybody, even the goofiest feminists knew what he meant.  But they couldn’t pass up the opportunity to liken this to a white racist calling a black guy a you-know-what.  Leaving out the word “resumes” amounted to a crime against humanity for these ninnies.

I personally witnessed more than a few Democrats on TV whine about how demeaning Romney’s comment was to women.  But it wasn’t only Democratic operatives who were trying to make more of this than it deserved.  It was also the president and vice president – understandably because they’ll do anything to change the subject from their dismal economic record of the last four years.

"We don't have to order up some binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women who can learn and excel," Mr. Obama told a campaign event Thursday in New Hampshire before going on to say he wanted new women graduates “to receive equal pay for equal work.” Memo from Axelrod to POTUS:  Make any connection, no matter how inane, from “binders” to “equal pay for women" (because we can’t win without them).

Joe Biden chimed in saying the binders comment showed that Romney is in a “1950s time warp” in how he views women.  Interesting comment from a guy who told a campaign rally not long ago that we were living in the 20th century.

Okay, you get the point:  For political gain, liberals will feign anger and distress – even if it’s over a harmless comment about binders.

But conservatives can be just as cynical – and come off looking just as foolish.

Which brings us to President Obama’s comment in an interview with Jon Stewart that “If four Americans get killed, it's not optimal.”

This set off a lot of conservatives, including lots of opinion people on Fox.  They found the remark beneath contempt.  Some free advice to my conservative friends:  Knock it off!  You’re acting just like those crazy lefties over the binder comment.

Mr. Obama didn’t come up with the word “optimal” all by himself.  In his question to the president about the administration’s handing of the Benghazi attack, Stewart said, “I would say, and even you would admit, it was not the optimal response - at least to the American people as far as all of us being on the same page."

That’s when the president made his “If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal” comment.

The president made a mistake.  When interviewed, you don’t let the interviewer put negative words in your mouth.  But that’s all it was: a mistake.  It wasn’t a sign of disrespect; he wasn’t belittling the death of four Americans.   And conservatives know it!

I’m tired of this faux outrage designed only for political gain.  I’m tired of it when goofy liberals play the game -- and I'm just as tired of it when cynical conservatives play the same crummy game.