What do Democrats and their accomplices in the mainstream media do when a majority of Americans disapprove of their performance and reject their ideas? Rather than honestly examine their performance and ideas, they simply dismiss the disapproval/rejection and re-label it fear.

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Today's case in point is a neat little explanation by the folks at MSNBC for last night's GOP primary results in Alaska and Arizona:

These results tell us something very significant about American politics right now: The candidates who are channeling the public's anger best are winning, especially on the GOP side. One observer put it this way: If 2008 was about "hope," then 2010 might be about "fear" - with Republicans running on fear of Obama/Dems, while Dems will be running on fear of returning to Bush/GOP policies. (source)

Exactly when did paying attention and making the informed decision to support a candidate who favors smaller government, fiscal responsibility in government and personal responsibility in individuals become a phobia? Why is getting involved in the political process - supporting the candidate(s) of one's choosing with their dollars and voices and votes - now considered anger?

Obviously this is the only way the far-left in this country can deal with the fact that, after finally getting the one-party, leftist rule they've wanted for decades, their style of government has proven to be a complete and utter failure. It is unacceptable to them that they were given a chance but failed and now the voters are about to correct our collective course.

So they cling to their failed ideas, push ever harder for unaffordable legislation and unpopular causes and openly justify their disdain for the opposition by labeling everyone who disagrees with them as angry whatever-phobics.

But the approach of the truly fearful is to remain silent and submissive; to wait for the ever-growing government to get around to you. Instead those who are now changing the nation's course are doing so with their voices and pens, at rallies and in voting booths, with positive energy and constructive ideas. We are neither angry nor fearful. We are informed and determined. Perhaps it is their own fear of that informed and determined electorate that many on the left are sensing.