Does Liz Cheney hate America?  Of course not.  But if I were to use the tactics that she and her friends over at Keeping American Scared Safe are using to attack the Obama Administration, that’s just the kind of thing I’d be saying right now.  That, of course would be an ad hominem attack.  And as Liz Cheney knows well, ad hominem attacks are out of bounds in American politics.

Heh.  If you believe she believes that, I have a used prison in Cuba I’d like to sell you.

As it happens, the folks over at Care2 asked me for my thoughts on Liz Cheney’s campaign to subvert America accuse Obama Administration DOJ officials (who KAS likes to call the al Qaeda 7 or the Guantanamo 9) of being soft on terrorism because they have, at some point in their career, defending terrorist suspects.  Here’s an excerpt:

The Bush Administration also hired individuals who defended alleged terror suspects. . . .And that little inconvenient truth gets to the crux of the matter:  defending the accused is is not some sort of lefty plot destroy America.  Oh no.  It’s far worse:  it is a fundamental tenet of the American legal system originally expressed by the Founders in a little something we like to call the Bill of Rights.

Al Qaeda 7?  Guantanamo 9?  I’d like to suggest a more accurate name:  the Sixth Amendment 9.  Or if you want to include the three individuals from the Bush Administration, let’s call them the Sixth Amendment 12.  Or we could take it even further and include every lawyer who has ever defended someone unsavory.  But then we’d have to call it the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association.

You can find the whole thing here.

While I’m at it, I hope that I won’t be accused of engaging in McCarthyism when I suggest that Liz Cheney and her friends at Keeping America Scared (and no I”m not going to link to them — go Google it yourself) are worthy of today’s Dillweed of the Day honors.  Because frankly, I can’t actually prove that she is a dillweed.  In fact, I have no evidence that she has ever eaten, grown, or in any way been associated with dillweed.  But it is quite possible that in the past, she knew somebody who has eaten, grown, or hugged dillweed.  So we can’t necessarily rule it out.  And that, of course, means that we will continue to suspect her until we find out the troot, the whole troot, and nothing but the troot.

So I urge you.  Call Liz Cheney today.  Ask her why she won’t tell us whether she’s been associated in the past with dillweed.  What does she have to hide?

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