Not too long ago, I noted how many on the left were celebrating medical issues being suffered by Kentucky's two Republican senators, Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul.
Now, the tolerance on the left is again on full display as news has come out of the death of prominent businessman and political activist David Koch.
Koch and his brother, Charles, comprise the Koch Brothers that you hear so much about, mostly in derisive and derogatory terms from liberals. They ran their family's private Kansas-based company.
Koch was 79 and had been in declining health, resulting in him stepping away from much of his business and political activity in recent years. He was a Libertarian Party candidate for vice president in 1980 ,who later became more conservative in his views, before swinging back to the libertarian outlook in later years.
I generally support their ideas for lower taxes and smaller government, but in recent years the Kochs have taken a more libertarian bent in their activism that's a bit off-putting to this tea party conservative. Their advocacy for more lax immigration standards is one significant place where I'm in disagreement with them. Ditto their foreign policy views regarding America's use of force to engage our enemies before they engage us. And the social/moral/cultural stances David Koch took are 100 percent opposite from what conservatives believe. He supported drug legalization, abortion, and gay marriage. Even those positions, held in reverence by the left, weren't enough to mitigate the hate so many had for him.
But by and large, their work has been good for the country and good for conservative causes. Their championing of free market principles is in line with our founding fathers, but is anathema to the left's vision for our society.
So it was no surprise to see the cyber celebrations break out in the comments sections of news stories announcing David Koch's death. Had I bet everything I owned on the probability of that happening, I'd have doubled my money.
On the comments section of WYMT-TV's Facebook post about his death alone, liberals were rejoicing. Snarky comments, GIFs of celebratory dances, and the typical lies about what he stood for populated the feed.
And Twitter? There's a reason Rush Limbaugh refers to it as a cesspool. Koch's death was a trending topic, and virtually none of the tweets were mournful in nature.
Here's a little message for some of those on the left: Don't lecture us on the right about tolerance and civility when you don't practice those traits yourself.
