17 September, 2013

Erick Erickson, making sense

Grow Up, People. Including You, @DavidFrum | RedState: Yet some decided it was, in the heat of the moment, already time to drag race, politics, and policy arguments into the fray.

I’ve been there. I’ve done that. Even I’ve learned how inappropriate it is.

There are people calling frantically, I’m sure, right now wanting to know if their husband, brother, wife, sister, mom, or dad is alive or dead. There are others being told about their dead or dying or wounded or safe loved ones.

I would not dare step in the way of America’s national past time of bitching about the politics of everything on twitter, but there has to be a better time for it than as the temperature of bodies on the ground in the Navy Yard are not even yet cold.

Life is more than politics. And if you don’t understand that, you are one seriously maladjusted person. Lecturing me that I can’t tell you what to saying means you really don’t get it. I don’t care what you say. You have a right to say it. But if you don’t have the judgment and good sense to understand that now is not the time to say it, you have no capacity to understand why.