I was in middle school when I realized that all bullies are wimps — more than that, that all bullies are bullies because they are wimps. Because they are so terrified of any perceived threat to their utter badassitude that they dole out noogies and lunch-money shakedowns in an effort to look tough. This wasn't gutsy on my part. It was the result of no longer being a child. It's a realization that normal humans go through at about the same time their balls descend or their ovaries assume their appointed duties. For most of us, this happens at age 11 or 12, and we spend the rest of our lives getting on with life and laughing at the pitiful lunkheads who can't seem to move beyond fifth grade. Those who don't undergo this hormonal maturation apparently go on to become Republican leaders — who, in responding to the Wikileaks affair, seem hell-bent on marking themselves as the biggest bunch of children in the nation.
No less a group than Mike Huckabee, Peter King, Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, and Newt Gingrich are now on record calling for the death of the wikileaker, or of Wikileaks chief swami Julian Assange, or, barring that, his declaration as an enemy combatant and direct danger to the United States itself. None of this is legally or morally defensible. Perhaps more to the point, it would not stop Wikileaks or prevent other leaks and leakers in the future. But no matter: the wimps are concerned with America looking bad, and so there must be blood.
Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/todays-gop-squeal-loudly-and-quail-in-fear?src=rss
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