AND THEY EAT BABIES!
Lately, it seems that I can’t surf the web without reading some blogger claiming that Democrats want “the terrorists” to win (Jake’s comment here is fairly representative: “Democrats are praying that Terrorists all over the world win. They feel that it is their only chance to survive.”).
Or likening Alabama Judge Moore’s removal, to the first step in the ACLU’s “final solution” for religion in the U.S. (This post is fairly typical).
Oh, let’s not forget that cultural traitor, Michael Moore, (courtesy Jeff Jarvis) and now, I can add Strom Thurmond, er, I mean, Zell Miller, calling the non-confirmation of Judge Rogers Brown a lynching.
(I hope Justice Clarence Thomas is getting residuals on that one!).
Holy hyberole batman, has the Right lost it?
Democrats don’t want the terrorists to win — for the love of Mary, all but one of the Democratic Senators voted for the “Patriot Act” (Save us, Superman… I mean Russ), Sen-Ergizer bunny Schumer (seriously, he is everywhere at all times, doing everything) constantly calls for the Bush Administration to pony-up the cash to protect the nation’s harbor and nuclear plants, not to mention deliver money to shore up our first-responders.
And even the Dems and liberals who want to see the Act repealed, do not favor repeal, so “terrorists win,” but so that Americans don’t lose — liberties and rights and freedoms. I thought that living our American life was the best way to fight terrorism anyway?
The “doves” who oppose war, do so because they think that there are other ways to win the peace. (Interestingly, American blacks fighting injustice and terror, in the form of burnings and lynchings, (not the high-tech Zell Miller kind, but the dead body in a tree kind) in 1960s America, had the choice between winning through violence or nonviolence. I think we can all agree that the nonviolent, legal routes won the day and history and the judicial system have been merciless toward the ones that chose guns and bombs.)
Do we wish that the Bush Administration had finished the job in Afghanistan before leading the charge into Iraq? Yessir, indeedy. Again, not to score one for the terrorists, just so we’re clear.
Fact is, there is nothing that will cement the President Bush re-election like another attack on American soil. The pols know how to play the fear card in elections like nobody’s business (Willie Horton, white hands…boo! Osama’s under your bed).
So, no, the Dems don’t want the terrorists to win. We don’t want them to win in the physical sense of blowing apart our people and infrastructure. We also don’t want them to succeed in the erosion of our philosophy, principles and culture, either.
Speaking of which, “cultural treason?”
Please.
I don’t have anymore than a layman’s expertise in treason, but doesn’t it involve playing both sides? Pretending to work for one side and then selling or giving away that information to that side’s enemy? How on earth can that word, with any modifier, be applied to Michael Moore?
He says exactly the same things wherever he goes: Germany, London, Hollywood.
“Bush stole the election. Please help us, this banana republic is going to destroy the world, oh and give poor people a living wage.”
Rinse, repeat.
Whether or not you agree with him, and just so Kashei (come to think of it, I’ve been defending Moore, to Not Geniuses’ Ezra, as well) doesn’t have to wonder: President Bush is our constitutionally elected President, I don’t think the United States is on a quest for empire and I don’t hate corporate America, Michael Moore is and always has been clear about his views - whether at home or abroad. And if he calls you stupid again just say what your mama taught you “I’m rubber you’re glue, I graduated from college, did you?”
Besides, poor people should have a living wage.
Oh, and how come no one shouts about how Michael Moore, a Jewish member of the NRA, by the way, advises the Palestinians to adopt non-violent means in their conflict?
Now, I’m sure many critics will say: what about George Soros saying that President Bush and America are like Hitler and the rise of the nazis? Good, now, you’re understanding me.
That talk is on exactly the same level as the hysterical ACLU=Nazis comparisons.
Do I even have to point out the lunacy of the “gal you’re going to get lynched” talk from Zell?
Fine, look at the nominees that we’re talking about: an african-american woman, a latino man, two white women and two white guys ( Only Estrada and Rogers Brown get any play nowadays, but I seem to remember Pickering is white and I assume we’d have heard if the others were judges of color — if I’m wrong, let me know) It’s a virtual Benetton Ad — this has nothing to do with racial or gender bias.
Now, people weren’t really blogging back then: but does anybody remember when President Clinton seemed to blame Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing?
Silly, right? (Unless that needle in McVeigh’s arm on June 11, 2001 really should have taken down the former speaker and current drug addict…)
So, let’s all calmly step away from Ted Rall column (on behalf of victims of domestic violence, I’ve got to say that comparing him to a wife beater was terribly flip and inappropriate.)
These are serious disputes that a relatively young and powerful nation needs to have: what is the role of religion in our government, what is our place on the world stage, should politics be a factor in choosing judges, how do we protect ourselves from killers — but if we are going to advance the discourse, we have to start from a place of mutual respect or at least one of calm reason.
Otherwise, we’ve just got Hitler’s nazis lynching wife-beaters, so that the terrorists win.