As much as I appreciate Michelle Malkin and other prominent conservatives and their contributions, they are walking a fine line between delivering an important  message and being down right out-of-touch and mean.

With this well-oiled propaganda campaign buoying his efforts, President Obama used his State of the Nation address last night to advance his push for a massive government home foreclosure plan that will help “responsible homeowners avoid foreclosure.”

But a closer look at ACORN’s sob stories shows that the prototypical foreclosure “victims” don’t deserve an ounce of sympathy — or a cent of our money.

While there have been some unscrupulous dealings going on, not all of those who’ve been foreclosed on are America’s “losers”.

I don’t know how Michelle Malkin earns her money, but I personally wouldn’t feel comfortable being able to contribute to prominent publications, appear as a regular national television pundit, fly all over the country videotaping protests, while dissing people less blessed.

While there are people who intentionally got in over their heads and now have their hands out aided by criminal organizations like ACORN, many people just plain ol’ lost their jobs. In some cases, when they fell behind in their mortgages, their lender wouldn’t accept anything but full repayment, thus setting up the snowball towards foreclosure.

These people aren’t losers. They don’t consider themselves victims, haven’t sought after (and received) a taxpayer bailout, and have tried to right their ships despite what happened. But to have people like Michelle, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli, and all the others quick to call PEOPLE losers and lump those who tried to do the right thing and had genuine back luck in with those who just wanted to game the system, is the very antithesis of what compassionate conservatism was supposed to be.

In fact, it makes us all look mean.

I’m not being thin-skinned here and know Michelle and the others aren’t referring to those who played by the rules and met with one of life’s speed bumps. But when talking about the “losers”, every attempt should be made to mention the two categories of people involved. The appearance of lumping everyone into the same group gives the Randi Rhodes’, Rachel Maddows, and Alan Colmes’ of the world their “asshole Republican” talking points for years.

I would never hope Michelle Malkin would go through what my family has endured over the last year, but I sincerely believe she (and the noted others) would choose their words carefully if all of a sudden, bad things happened in their lives. Sure, it’s easy to tell people to “pull themselves up by the bootstraps” when you’re essentially set for life, but don’t forget who your audience is and insult them.

I understand the anger, but direct it at those in government and the private sector who caused this mess and are shielding themselves from blame.

Maybe Michelle Malkin truly believes “those foreclosure victims deserve no sympathy”, but while working at Fox in the 90′s, a VP once told us “The people you screw over on the way up, are the people you meet on the way down.”

Heaven forbid, Malkin goes through what we did, but if this economy starts claiming more high-profile personalities, I sincerely doubt she’d want the people’s response to be, “Good!”

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