The Deafening Silence
When Al Gore challenged the outcome of the election in Florida in 2000 we were treated to a mantra about the importance of counting every vote, and about how evil the Republicans were for trying to suppress voter turnout. Black voters were chased away by Republicans in police squad cars parked 4 or 5 blocks away, they told us. Elderly voters were tricked into believing that the election had been postponed, they said. Voters were tricked into voting for Pat Buchanan because the Republicans kidnapped their people and replaced them with body doubles who redesigned the ballots to trick honest Democrats into voting for the Fascist Party (of course, military ballots had to be disposed of since, as we all know, they are part of the fascist military industrial complex). The Republicans tried to suppress the vote,they bleated, and that was wrong, wrong, wrong!
In the `04 election we were again treated to this same litany of complaints, and told how, of all the Republican sins, the greatest of these was unfair vote counting. The Democrats challenged the results in Ohio, complaining that voting machines were rigged for Bush. They even dragged the certification of the election out in Congress, admitting it was an exercise in futility but claiming ``the process`` required this to protect the peoples right to vote. (But, of course, they are not obstructionist.) It seems every vote-including those of the deceased, the imprisoned, and Mary Poppins-MUST be counted (and often) or the democratic process is in peril.
That`s why the silence on Iraq is so deafening. Al-Zarqawi and his People for the Islamic Way attack polling places, blowing away innocent people to prevent a free election, and we hear a roaring silence from those stalwart defenders of democracy and the higher principle of counting every vote. WHERE IS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY??? Why aren`t we hearing from Greg Craig, from Al Gore, from Terry McAuliff? Where is that great defender of liberty, Michael Moore? The right to vote was sooo precious to them when they were on the losing end. Now it isn`t worth mentioning. Why?
I`ll tell you why. During the election of `04 several Republican campaign headquarters were firebombed or shot at. Doesn`t that seem vaguely familiar? It seems the Democrats and the ``insurgents`` have similar methods; bomb your enemies to keep them from getting out the vote. (Have the insurgents hired James Carville to advise them?) The Democrats wanted Bush to lose in `04, and they want him to lose now. They don`t CARE about the fairness of elections, or about national security. All they care about is vengence; they dream of dragging Bush and those ``neocons`` down, and damn the costs!
During the election season John Kerry frequently rose up on his high jackass in a rage if anyone dared say anything which could be construed a challenge to his patriotism. We heard this refrain from the entire Democrat establishment; ``how dare you question our patriotism``. Well, I DARE!! A party who endlessly attacks the commander in chief, attacks the whole reason for war, claims it is the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time, who claims it is to make money for Bush`s ``oil buddies``, who holds up money, and support, and who accuses our soldiers of war crimes, is the very definition of unpatriotic. THEY CAN`T EVEN CONDEMN OUR ENEMIES FOR BOMBING POLLING PLACES! Yes, they have condemned THEMSELVES with their own mouths! The Democrats have no patriotism. They do not love their country. All they care about is their own fortunes, their own power. The silence is deafening!
In bygone years the opposition party was loyal in time of war(that`s why they were called the loyal opposition). Politics, it was said, ended at the water`s edge; no more. This all changed when the Democrats lost power. The important thing, the only thing, is reacquiring that power-all else must be sacrificed to this end. Soldiers must die, freedom must be squelched (in Iraq and elsewhere), our national security must be compromised-EVERYTHING must be subordinated to the Democrats lust for power. The ghost of George Orwell haunts the halls of the Party caucus; the purpose of power,said Orwell in his novel 1984, is power. That is all they know, and all they understand.
This is one of the most shameful displays in the history of the Republic. Future scholars will marvel at the spectacle of one of the two governing parties in the United States essentially turning traitor. History will judge them very, very harshly.
In the `04 election we were again treated to this same litany of complaints, and told how, of all the Republican sins, the greatest of these was unfair vote counting. The Democrats challenged the results in Ohio, complaining that voting machines were rigged for Bush. They even dragged the certification of the election out in Congress, admitting it was an exercise in futility but claiming ``the process`` required this to protect the peoples right to vote. (But, of course, they are not obstructionist.) It seems every vote-including those of the deceased, the imprisoned, and Mary Poppins-MUST be counted (and often) or the democratic process is in peril.
That`s why the silence on Iraq is so deafening. Al-Zarqawi and his People for the Islamic Way attack polling places, blowing away innocent people to prevent a free election, and we hear a roaring silence from those stalwart defenders of democracy and the higher principle of counting every vote. WHERE IS THE DEMOCRAT PARTY??? Why aren`t we hearing from Greg Craig, from Al Gore, from Terry McAuliff? Where is that great defender of liberty, Michael Moore? The right to vote was sooo precious to them when they were on the losing end. Now it isn`t worth mentioning. Why?
I`ll tell you why. During the election of `04 several Republican campaign headquarters were firebombed or shot at. Doesn`t that seem vaguely familiar? It seems the Democrats and the ``insurgents`` have similar methods; bomb your enemies to keep them from getting out the vote. (Have the insurgents hired James Carville to advise them?) The Democrats wanted Bush to lose in `04, and they want him to lose now. They don`t CARE about the fairness of elections, or about national security. All they care about is vengence; they dream of dragging Bush and those ``neocons`` down, and damn the costs!
During the election season John Kerry frequently rose up on his high jackass in a rage if anyone dared say anything which could be construed a challenge to his patriotism. We heard this refrain from the entire Democrat establishment; ``how dare you question our patriotism``. Well, I DARE!! A party who endlessly attacks the commander in chief, attacks the whole reason for war, claims it is the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time, who claims it is to make money for Bush`s ``oil buddies``, who holds up money, and support, and who accuses our soldiers of war crimes, is the very definition of unpatriotic. THEY CAN`T EVEN CONDEMN OUR ENEMIES FOR BOMBING POLLING PLACES! Yes, they have condemned THEMSELVES with their own mouths! The Democrats have no patriotism. They do not love their country. All they care about is their own fortunes, their own power. The silence is deafening!
In bygone years the opposition party was loyal in time of war(that`s why they were called the loyal opposition). Politics, it was said, ended at the water`s edge; no more. This all changed when the Democrats lost power. The important thing, the only thing, is reacquiring that power-all else must be sacrificed to this end. Soldiers must die, freedom must be squelched (in Iraq and elsewhere), our national security must be compromised-EVERYTHING must be subordinated to the Democrats lust for power. The ghost of George Orwell haunts the halls of the Party caucus; the purpose of power,said Orwell in his novel 1984, is power. That is all they know, and all they understand.
This is one of the most shameful displays in the history of the Republic. Future scholars will marvel at the spectacle of one of the two governing parties in the United States essentially turning traitor. History will judge them very, very harshly.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 4:16 PM
2 Comments:
The democrats and the leftist media are so fixated on recapturing their “glory days” of the Vietnam era, that the have lost touch with what is good for America and perhaps the world. A near perfect illustration of this phenomenon was the surge of “good” economic news that magically appeared just after the November elections when it could do Bush little good and John Kerry no harm. Most of which was released and went largely un-reported earlier in the late summer and early fall of 2004. Rush first brought this dichotomy to my attention a few years ago and I have since come to accept it as a sad fact, “What’s bad for America is good for the democrats.” It appears they have adopted this mantra for universal application on every issue. They are playing a dangerous game that has the potential to do them little good and all of us great harm.
They are left standing on the wrong side of an issue yet again, blinded by their hatred for George W. Bush.
They are melting before our eyes in a cauldron of impotence, self-hatred and rage --- either Ted Kennedy explodes --- or the whole party implodes like the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz. They are only destroying themselves with this obstructionism and defeatism. The tragic part is that the democrat party has been a disastrous failure for over 40 years. The last thing they can look back to as a "success" is their demoralization of America's will to fight in the Vietnam war -- and sadly, to them, this is the only avenue they see to a rennaissance -- to destroy another American war effort. In so many ways, the democrat party has become the party of nostalgia, and unfortunately, what they are nostalgic for are their young years when they were bearded, anti-social war protestors. They actually feel that they did a noble and great thing by demonstrating and ending the war in Vietnam. They have no new plans to offer, so all they can do is harken back to what they see as a glorious past and destroy anything anyone wants to do on a positive basis. In the long run, although it drives us nuts, they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. Witness the recent elections. There is very little there, in this impotent and hateful rage, to draw idealistic and young people. Young people today are not the hippies who rebelled against the mores of a 50's post-war generation. They want to get ahead and believe in something. Believing in hatred and seething resentment is not an attractive philosophy.
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