If there's one thing conservatives love more than posing like they're tough guys with guns, it's squealing and hiding behind the couch, trembling in fear at the "thugs" and "socialists" that crowd their imaginary worlds. The disconnect between this extreme cowardice---who's afraid of imaginary people?---and the manly pose that's otherwise adopted is just another example of how being a wingnut first requires remarkable abilities to handle cognitive dissonance. And nowhere is the right wing cowardice more evident than in the reaction to the Wisconsin protesters. To hear right wingers carry on about it, a bunch of schoolteachers calmly refusing to leave a public area that their tax dollars pay for in protest of proposed government policies to screw them over is basically the equivalent of rioting in the streets by people who are demanding jobs as professional rapists that get paid a million a year (and without tossing any balls around during a competitive sport at all!).
