Progressive, Lies, and am I being redundant?

Progressive, Lies, and am I being redundant?
http://soaznewsx.com/Opinion/ID/5599/Emil-Franzi-Weak-effort-by-a-weak-editorial-board

""Define or be defined. Saul Alinsky, among others, knew that well and always attempted to define his enemies before they did so themselves. It is a popular progressive elitist and liberal (lately synonymous with elitist) trick to define ideology as something bad and moderation as something good while simultaneously claiming your own ideology is the moderation you seek.""

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"So few people cast ballots in primaries that, practically speaking, a fraction of Arizonans pick the candidates who face off in November. Too often those are politicians who cater to the ideological wings of their parties, to the detriment of common-sense 

Note – they never told you how THEY define "common-sense" government but a cursory perusal of their editorials easily defines them as dogmatic and even slobbering elitist liberals of the snot-impacted variety.""

The Arizona Daily Star claimed they did GOP voters a favor on Sunday by not endorsing any of the six candidates running in the Aug. 26 GOP primary for governor, but would simply present their relative strengths and concerns.

Instead, they simply trashed all six for taking conservative positions.

They also claimed to be a moderating influence, not ideologically motivated.

Define or be defined. Saul Alinsky, among others, knew that well and always attempted to define his enemies before they did so themselves. It is a popular progressive elitist and liberal (lately synonymous with elitist) trick to define ideology as something bad and moderation as something good while simultaneously claiming your own ideology is the moderation you seek.

Here's how they spin it:

"So few people cast ballots in primaries that, practically speaking, a fraction of Arizonans pick the candidates who face off in November. Too often those are politicians who cater to the ideological wings of their parties, to the detriment of common-sense 

Note – they never told you how THEY define "common-sense" government but a cursory perusal of their editorials easily defines them as dogmatic and even slobbering elitist liberals of the snot-impacted variety.

They then spun those strengths and concerns into the following:

"Strengths" for Ken Bennett: "Bevy of public experience … eight years as state senator. Elected to Prescott City Council, and state Board of Education."

Bennett was PRESIDENT of the Arizona Senate, and the State Board of Education is not an elective office.

Their "concerns" are that he wants to eliminate the state income tax, opposed Medicaid expansion and has an unworkable plan for health care. Obviously, they gave him a brief glance.

"""Strengths" for Doug Ducey: They summate by giving him credit for being a competent state Treasurer and having business experience and support.

"Concerns" are lack of specificity on his opposition to Medicaid expansion and income tax elimination. Fair enough, but they expose their hand when they hit him for saying the Arizona-Mexico border is "wide open and unsecured," which they then declaim "Isn't factual." They then list all the hardcore conservatives who support him they have previously trashed in other editorials. They also banged him for being "unclear" about how to keep Davis-Monthan AFB in business.""

""Besides the sloppy reporting, it obvious that the Star editorial writers are acting as wolves (or hyenas) in sheep's clothing pretending moderation, common sense and objectivity when they are nothing more than liberal Democrat hacks with worn-out or fraudulent concerns who are ignoring too many real ones.""

I enjoy Emil's creative insults, also true