The cowardice of a conservative

I find it more than a little funny that conservatives so often bow out of responsibilities out of pure fear. What really amuses me is how they so often quit, fold and make excuses when confronted with any opposition. They don’t have the emotional or mental equipment to cope so they run. Then they try to turn the tables by lying or misconstruing the reality of their flight with limp excuses. Witness Ann Coulter’s escape from that Ottawa speaking engagement overbooked by incompetent Levant groupies. Christie Blatchford’s retreat is another good one. Or, consider Palin’s half term.

Speaking of Palin, conservatives in Colorado have hit a new low by cancelling a May speech by the half-term governor and then blaming the cancellation on the Arizona shooting incident, a tragedy partially brought on by the rhetoric of said Palin. It takes some balls for conservatives to at one moment cower and the next blame the social climate brought on by themselves. The icing on the cake is the reference to ‘civility’, a day after the comically uncivil Palin insulted Obama’s handling of the Egyptian crisis. (Emphasis mine.)

But the event, sponsored by the Sharon K. Pacheco Foundation, was canceled Saturday, a day after it had been announced to the media. A press release posted on the sponsoring organization’s Facebook page reads, “Due to an onslaught of personal attacks against Gov. Palin and others associated with her appearance, it is with deep sadness and disappointment that, in the best interest of all, we cancel the event for safety concerns.”

The press release goes on to say that no direct threats were made against Palin, nor were any made against members of the organization’s staff, but in light of the shooting rampage in Arizona last month, the negative rhetoric “raises concern for her safety and the safety of others despite the call for civility in America.”

UPDATE: Blue Texan expands on Palin’s idiocy … and conservative cowardice.

UPDATE II: Then there’s the unaware conservative who believes that “we are all children of the Gipper”. The blog post is not kidding about ‘all’; it includes Obama and Cameron. Honest.

UPDATE III: deBeauxOs has a post on the cancellation but adds this bit of ‘smelly fish’:

As the WaPo item observes, this frees Palin’s schedule so she can appear at the NBC/Politico Republican presidential primary debate at the Reagan Presidential Library in California on the same date. Interesting – and opportunistic – timing, I would say.