Progressive Frowns and Circus Clowns

Do you agree with this recent statement regarding President Bush's victories in the 2000 presidential election (Florida) and the 2004 presidential election (Ohio)?

He stole the election? Prove it or shut up.
The recount shows that he won... The lying liars who say otherwise have no evidence of cheating.

I agree wholeheartedly. President Bush disappointed me on occasion, but I think he is an honest, honorable man, as politicians go. I grew sick long ago of the yapping dogs on the left refusing to let it go. A particularly harsh back and forth at the Washington Post with a rabid pack of deranged leftists finally pushed me over the edge and caused me to start blogging.

I've often used just that line of reasoning with them: Put up or shut up. You have no proof.

It is a logical riposte to those slinging scurrilous charges around. The burden of proof is with the person making the allegation.

However, the above statement was not written by a conservative, and it's not about President Bush. So, who wrote that statement and what is it about? A slobbering, Bush-hating leftist named Joe Consason wrote the quote about Al Franken's Senate campaign in a liberal net-rag called Saloon:

Al Franken stole the election? Prove it or shut up.
The recount shows that he won the Minnesota Senate race. The lying liars who say otherwise have no evidence of cheating.

Liberals are outraged! Incensed! And scandalously appalled that Republicans, conservatives and other anti-liberal bourgeois subversives have the temerity to accuse Al Franken of stealing the Minnesota Senate election. The very idea!

Is Conason serious? Is he stupid? Or is he so blindly partisan that he sees no similarities between the Franken and Bush accusations. He didn't even acknowledge the comparison in his article. Can the libs really be so blind to their own raw hypocrisy and, well... their logical blind spots? The next four years could be entertaining if we play our cards right.