How To Be a Conservative

This blog post from a conservative blogger (and the right-wingers who post comments) provides in microcosm a useful case study for the right-wing mindset:

1. Never debate the facts, go straight for the ad hominem attacks.
2. Invent a funny nickname for your opponent to support step one.
3. Characterize your opponent's position using religious language to underscore their inherent dogmatism and irrationality [this is so ironic my brain is bleeding].
4. Accuse your opponent of employing your own worst tactics (scare tactics, demagoguery, name-calling).
   
5. Assert that Computer Science and Electrical Engineering are the keys to all scientific understanding (including Environmental science, Biology, etc.)
6. Complain that we tie our own hands by not lowering our standards to the level of our enemies (x doesn't care about human rights, why should we? y doesn't comply with environmental standards, why should we?).
7. Always blame others for everything that goes wrong (personal responsibility only applies to people you don't like).