Earlier this week, Oliver Willis took time out of his hectic schedule to make insulting comments about Michelle Malkin's eyes.

Now, he's writing a lengthy item on the mean-spirited conservatives. Let's take a look:

What is wrong with these people?

"These people?" If Ross Perot used that terminology he'd get booed off a stage...

The idea behind presidential elections in the United States of America is that the candidates present their ideas to the people, debate the relative merits and leave the choice up to the people.

Well...leave the choice up to the people through the Electoral College.

For some reason, George Bush and the Republican Party can’t play the game this way.

OK...That's what this is about. Another "cheating to win the election argument." Let's see how this one goes...

Whether it’s calling John McCain a Manchurian candidate because he had the nerve to suffer in a P.O.W. camp,

Ok. Stop right there. Ted Sampley no more represents President Bush and the Republican party than Michael Moore represents John Kerry and the Democratic party. (Although there are no eyewitnesses saying high-ranking Republicans have been running around giving Ted Sampley bear hugs, or inviting him to sit next to them in box seats at the upcoming convention.)

...right-wing thug David Bossie manipulating audio tapes to attack President Clinton,

As opposed to Michael Moore manipulating video tapes to attack President Bush (and make a bazillion dollars), or Maureen Dowd manipulating quotations?

or spreading lies about Al Gore

OK. Pop quiz, hot shot. (Don't you love Dennis Hopper?) Who said the following: "The most interesting theory that I've heard so far -- which is nothing more than a theory, it can't be proved -- is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is?" Buzzzzzzzz. Time's up. It was Howard Dean. Hmmmmm...I seem to remember a liberal blogger who had endorsed and promoted Howard Dean for the better part of a year...Don't worry. The name will come to me in a little bit.

– they can’t win on the merits of their argument because they know they’d lose.

John Kerry is so sure he can win on the merits of the argument, he keeps campaigning very hard. Except he thinks he can win on the merits of both arguments on every issue. For the war. Against the war. Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. He would have waited to "get the facts." He voted for the $87 billion, he voted against the $87 billion. He's against the death penalty for terrorists. He's for the death penalty for terrorists. He'd favor redeploying troops from Europe and Asia. He's against redeploying troops from Europe and Asia. He supported No Child Left Behind. He badmouths No Child Left Behind. He did nothing to reform the Intelligence Community while on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Now it'd be a centerpiece of his administration. He lobbied Daniel Ortega to align Nicaragua with the U.S. during the Cold War, but Ortega two days later flew to Moscow and signed up for smoking privileges at The Kremlin. But, Kerry says, he'd make a better diplomat than President Bush.

Now, it’s clear to them that they’re stuck in a bad spot. America is no safer than it was on 9/11.

Let's see...
Afghanistan terror training camps destroyed: Check.
Saddam's terror training camps destroyed: Check.
Saddam's cooperation with al Qaeda finished: Check.
Libya gives up WMD: Check.
Extended security at airports: Check.
Patriot Act: Check.
Two thirds of al Qaeda's leadership killed or captured: Check.
Major terror financing pipelines destroyed or disrupted: Check.

The war in Iraq erupts daily into gunfire,

Um, not to be picky, but isn't that the definition of "war?"

our troops stuck between radical fighters and pigheaded bureaucrats afraid that reality may intrude on their well-laid plans to transform the world into their personal playpen.

Playpen? You mean like this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this?

I see pictures of children. Many of them seem happy. Who was pigheaded?

They’ve perverted the American economy into one that rewards polluters,

Cough cough Tyson Chicken cough cough. Oh. Sorry. Continue:

corporate criminals,

Cough cough Marc Rich Cough cough. Wow. Sorry. Please continue:

and shifts the burden onto working families. John Kerry is presenting an alternative path, and people are buying.

Well, fewer and fewer of them are, according to the latest CBS-NY Times poll.

So what can Bush and his party do? They could explain themselves; lay out of a course of action worthy of the greatest nation on the planet earth. But they can’t. Either because they don’t want to or they just can’t. So what’s their response? Smear, smear, and smear.

Well, President Bush and the Republican party have said that Kerry "served nobly in Vietnam. However, some of Kerry's comrades are now reminding us that Kerry didn't believe Vietnam service was all that noble when he got back from the war. Using Kerry's own words constitutes a "smear?"

John Kerry is recognized by the United States government as a hero of war.

So was Bob Dole. Nobody on the left made a big stink about it when he ran for president.

Decorated multiple times for his valor in combat, he’s saved the life of more than one man which is more than most of us can lay claim to. For most decent people, this is admirable, something to give kudos to regardless of affiliation. People like Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell get respect across party lines for their status in our armed forces. But the idea of a Democrat with a decorated combat legacy eats at the core of Bush and the Republican party. That legacy is supposed to be theirs, and heaven forbid you forget it.

Actually, the legacy belongs to people like Ken Cordier and Paul Gallanti.

And this will be said again. President Bush called Kerry's service "noble." President Bush is not the one who made Kerry's service in Vietnam a 2004 campaign issue. Kerry is the one who did that.

Bush has now orchestrated a campaign predicated on destroying the record of John Kerry, hiding behind other veterans and Republican operatives in order to do the dirty work.

Just like President Bush "orchestrated" the 9/11 attacks after being "tipped off by the Saudis?" You would think so, since Willis offers as much evidence for this statement as Howard Dean offered for the 9/11 conspiracy one. All he left out were referneces to The Carlyle Group.

They enlist the aid of their friends in the right wing media, printing the book through the ideologically driven Regnery Press (since they know the content wouldn’t stand up to any real journalistic scrutiny), charges are strategically leaked and trumpeted on Matt Drudge’s website, right wing radio hosts from Limbaugh to Hannity to O’Reilly and all their local AM minions in between amplify the message, which is then amped up by bloggers who paradoxically claim the fraudulent claims aren’t receiving any coverage, and the final blow is made as Fox News takes cues from headquarters and blasts the message from shore to shore – pushing the lemming like remnants of what he have that passes for an independent press to cover the story.

You mean all the "digital brownshirts?" Or the "independent press" that wrote about John Kerry- a major presidential candidate - lying about being in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, 1968, when Richard Nixon was president?

Dean Esmay put it another way yesterday, and it's a thought that has many people up in arms: "Oh, what is it you're afraid of, Mr. News Editor Man? That you don't get to be the gatekeeper of what people are allowed to hear about anymore?"

It’s a perversion of democracy.

How dare Americans pervert the Constitution by advocating the free exchange of ideas?

This is what they do, what they are good at. It was once thought that Richard Nixon’s nefarious doings were a deviation from the norm – certainly the party wasn’t always like that? That was wrong. That is the Republican party, and the only way they’ve changed is for the worse.

There wasn't an awful lot of protest coming out of the left about Michael Moore's F9/11. Kerry detested MoveOn.Org's hosting of Bush-is-Hitler video commercials so strongly, he hired the group's head of web operations to be a paid campaign official. George Soros - maybe Willis has heard of him - has compared Bush to Hitler and has vowed to spend his entire fortune to defeat the president. Howard Dean, during war time, called President Bush "the enemy." Al Sharpton hoaxed America and exploited a teen-age girl, and was rewarded with a balloons, applause, and a prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Maybe Willis can explain how the Democratic party has changed for the better.

I’m someone who believes in the heroic ideal; that at the end of the day good will triumph over evil. I don’t believe that anymore. Al Gore stood still while Bush and his party ripped apart years of public service,

After Al Gore smeared Bill Bradley's years of public service and introduced Willie Horton into the 1988 presidential campaign...

while hiding Bush’s failures as a governor, national guardsman, and businessman from the people and an uninterested and lazy press. Even at that juncture, more people still voted for Gore and Bush had to run to the supreme court for help.

We're back to the "he stole the election" argument. That constitutes "full circle," doesn't it?

Now the candidate of the Democratic party is John Kerry, and he’s seen this president preside over the largest terrorist attack ever in the history of this nation, responding by a half-assed attack in Afghanistan (with dangerously inept follow through) followed by an unwarranted invasion and occupation in Iraq (with a criminally negligent and dangerous aftermath).

Translation: After years of planning during the Clinton Administration, al Qaeda attacked the U.S. on 9/11. Since then, Bush has won two wars and the U.S. has killed or captured two-thirds of al Qaeda's top leadership.

John Kerry watched as America became a world leader that could only get the world to work with it through bribery and threats.

Wow. Tony Blair must feel gipped. Great Britain did it because they thought what they were doing was right.

He saw that, and decided that he would present his slate of how things could be better to the people. For that George Bush has gone into the gutter again,

Again, it boils down to linking President Bush to the Swift Boat Veteran's for Truth, even without an iota of evidence. (Or, rather, the same threshold of evidence that would link Kerry to the MoveOn.org Hitler ads or Michael Moore's movie.)

but Kerry is fighting back. I hope he fights back harder and harder. Every day, non stop. Whether he wins or loses I want him to be swinging all the way. These people need to be stopped because they’re destroying the soul of America.

In other words, people are looking at the record and starting to doubt Kerry. In other words, he seems to argue, we need to preserve the soul of America, and Willis' ability to make unseemly remarks about how people look.