A nation can survive its fools...but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly...[but] the traitor appears not a traitor...he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. -- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
I used to believe that constitutional conservatives are fighting an ideological battle against political opponents--but I'm not so sure anymore. It appears increasingly obvious to me that we are in fact engaged in a battle with power-hungry, ruthless, greedy, ill-informed opportunistic morons (sometimes bright morons, but morons nonetheless)--treasonous, self-righteous, scum-sucking bottom dwellers whose pretentions to moral authority make me want to puke.