When "common sense" isn't so common

The Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette has run tripe pieces on "common sense" liberal solutions to the usual perceived lib problems, too many people exercising their freedoms.  Having had enough after Sunday piece here, Lex sent off the letter below.

Whenever liberal liberty vampires want to suck another freedom out of America’s blood stream, they invariably do so by invoking the words “common sense” just before sinking their fangs into the neck of lady liberty and beginning to suck - as in “common senses” gun control, smoking bans, health care and education reform.


No activity of daily living, from the amount of salt on your French fries to the type of oil that the fries are cooked in, escapes the “common sense” rules and regulations laid down by weak, nanny state minded, liberal do-gooders. It’s just “common sense” to do things their way, the constitution and the will of the people be damned.

Oh, and don’t judge the liberty vampires by the results of their freedom destroying policies – socialized medicine has never worked and there are already hundreds of gun laws on the books. They are only interested in being judged by their “enlightened” good intentions for protecting us unwashed from ourselves.

Now the liberty vampires are worried about an Indiana bill that would prevent cities and local governments from prohibiting guns in certain buildings and places. As the JG puts it:

“…the Colts management has already expressed concern about fans being allowed to bring guns. The proposal raises big questions about security for the 2012 Super Bowl, which will be played there.”

If the Colts management is so concerned about “fans being allowed to bringing guns,” why don’t they build their own $tadium and make their own rule$? And as most everyone outside the JG editorial room knows, the Super Bowl is designated a National Special Security Event by the Department of Homeland Security. What do you suppose they mean by “National?”

Never has “common sense” been such an uncommon commodity as when used by liberals to advance a political agenda.