Democrats Think You're Stupid
A few weeks ago, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), a distinguished Vietnam veteran turned congressman in the twilight of his career, held a press conference criticizing President Bush's handling of the war in Iraq. In his speech, Murtha suggested it was time for the United States to pull out of Iraq. And a star was instantly born.
Murtha became the hottest "get" on all the pundit talk shows. Here was a Vietnam veteran and a "long time defense hawk" suggesting the war was going badly and it was time to cut our losses and get out. The anti-war movement had found their new Cindy Sheehan, only this one had some credibility. The media portrayed Murtha as the wise old man lecturing the incompetent draft dodging fool on how to run a war.
Republicans countered the Murtha movement by putting up a non-binding vote recommending the President withdraw the troops from Iraq immediately. The vote was defeated 403-3. So much for that. Murtha is still making the rounds calling for an end to the war, but his support has greatly diminished.
This entire chain of events stinks of politics. Nobody cares about what is best for our troops or what is best for America. People in Washington are only worried about getting re-elected. Republicans put up a vote with the intent of it being defeated. I'm not pleased with them playing politics with the troops and war policy, but I understand they were reacting and did it to prove a point. The point they were trying to make is that the Democrats think you are stupid.
The Democrats have been playing this political game the past several years where they mask their positions and hope you can't see their real intent. They understand they cannot say they favor gay marriage, because they know that everywhere it goes up for a vote it gets overwhelmingly shot down. They know they cannot say they don't want you to own guns because they know you will not vote for them if they do. In this case, the democrats desperately want President Bush to fail in this War on Terror because they fear Bush will secure the legacy of being tough on terrorism that Clinton could not achieve at the bargaining table. Presidents that create legacies benefit their party for decades. If Republicans are perceived as being tough on terrorism, the American people will never trust the Democrats with the keys to the military.
But they cannot come out and say they want Bush to fail because you will equate his failure with America losing. So they call Bush an idiot. They call him imcompetent. They call him corrupt. They say they support the troops, but not the war. Convenient since their last Presidential candidate contradicted this stance by voting for the war, but then voted to not support the troops by giving them the funding the purchase the supplies they now claim the Administration is not giving them. They do anything they can to talk a good game against terrorism without giving any credit to Dubbya. They suggest they could run the war better, while conveniently never providing their own plan. Then when one of them grows the courage to stand up and take a position, they all stand behind him until it comes up for a vote at which time they turn and leave him out to dry and suffer a 403-3 defeat.
The Democratic Party is void of morals. They have no message. No plan for America. No plan for the War on Terrorism. Their constant attacks on President Bush are getting old. Recently I was reading a liberal blog where the writer was talking about the need for the democrats to fight the Alito nomination. A telling line in his post was when he said, "(we have to) make the American people believe that (we) believe in something." Inadvertently he spelled it out perfectly. He doesn't propose that the democrats tell the American people what they believe in, rather he implores the Democrats to make the American people think they believe in something. People are tired of debating how and why we got into the war. America realizes that we're in it now and we need a plan. The Republicans want to get the Iraqis through the elections, train a sufficient number of troops to take over, and then bring our boys home. The Democrats just wish America would hurry up and lose so they can win the next election by default, but they can't tell you that.
Murtha became the hottest "get" on all the pundit talk shows. Here was a Vietnam veteran and a "long time defense hawk" suggesting the war was going badly and it was time to cut our losses and get out. The anti-war movement had found their new Cindy Sheehan, only this one had some credibility. The media portrayed Murtha as the wise old man lecturing the incompetent draft dodging fool on how to run a war.
Republicans countered the Murtha movement by putting up a non-binding vote recommending the President withdraw the troops from Iraq immediately. The vote was defeated 403-3. So much for that. Murtha is still making the rounds calling for an end to the war, but his support has greatly diminished.
This entire chain of events stinks of politics. Nobody cares about what is best for our troops or what is best for America. People in Washington are only worried about getting re-elected. Republicans put up a vote with the intent of it being defeated. I'm not pleased with them playing politics with the troops and war policy, but I understand they were reacting and did it to prove a point. The point they were trying to make is that the Democrats think you are stupid.
The Democrats have been playing this political game the past several years where they mask their positions and hope you can't see their real intent. They understand they cannot say they favor gay marriage, because they know that everywhere it goes up for a vote it gets overwhelmingly shot down. They know they cannot say they don't want you to own guns because they know you will not vote for them if they do. In this case, the democrats desperately want President Bush to fail in this War on Terror because they fear Bush will secure the legacy of being tough on terrorism that Clinton could not achieve at the bargaining table. Presidents that create legacies benefit their party for decades. If Republicans are perceived as being tough on terrorism, the American people will never trust the Democrats with the keys to the military.
But they cannot come out and say they want Bush to fail because you will equate his failure with America losing. So they call Bush an idiot. They call him imcompetent. They call him corrupt. They say they support the troops, but not the war. Convenient since their last Presidential candidate contradicted this stance by voting for the war, but then voted to not support the troops by giving them the funding the purchase the supplies they now claim the Administration is not giving them. They do anything they can to talk a good game against terrorism without giving any credit to Dubbya. They suggest they could run the war better, while conveniently never providing their own plan. Then when one of them grows the courage to stand up and take a position, they all stand behind him until it comes up for a vote at which time they turn and leave him out to dry and suffer a 403-3 defeat.
The Democratic Party is void of morals. They have no message. No plan for America. No plan for the War on Terrorism. Their constant attacks on President Bush are getting old. Recently I was reading a liberal blog where the writer was talking about the need for the democrats to fight the Alito nomination. A telling line in his post was when he said, "(we have to) make the American people believe that (we) believe in something." Inadvertently he spelled it out perfectly. He doesn't propose that the democrats tell the American people what they believe in, rather he implores the Democrats to make the American people think they believe in something. People are tired of debating how and why we got into the war. America realizes that we're in it now and we need a plan. The Republicans want to get the Iraqis through the elections, train a sufficient number of troops to take over, and then bring our boys home. The Democrats just wish America would hurry up and lose so they can win the next election by default, but they can't tell you that.
posted by Mike at 1:08 PM
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