Posted 3/3/2004 by Pierre Legrand
State of mind, a common man’s view of the world around him.
Its ok I say to myself, maybe just a bit more duct tape around my head will make the pain go away, perhaps just another wrap will prevent it from simply exploding into a thousand pieces over the latest insanity by the Democrats. After all how much nuttier can the Democrats get? They don’t really hate their country do they? And if some do hate their country for what it stands for, it’s only a small percentage right? After all they couldn’t hate the President so much and want the power of the Presidency so badly that they would be glad to see him fail in the war on terror right? RIGHT?

Is political office so important to these Democrats that they are willing to lie about the economy, distort the successes of the war, while hoping for disaster so they can say “told you so”? Is it a measure of the success of President Bush’s policies on the war on terror that they are able to distort our countries successes? If the war was less successful and we had suffered several more attacks on the scale of 9/11 or larger would they be so willing to attack our President? Do they believe the war is over?

I always have to wonder just exactly how we acted back in 1944. Were the Republicans screaming into any mike, or camera about how the war was being lost, that the President was lying? Did Republican candidates for the Presidency think it wise to say that Roosevelt was incompetent and the war was being lost? After the disasters in Africa did they demand that the administration admit the war was a bad idea and retreat? Were there Generals being interviewed during the landings on Normandy screaming and hollering that the strategy was bound for defeat, and that our boys were being killed because of the incompetence of the Roosevelt administration? Did anyone claim that the Roosevelt administration was only involved in Europe so that it could corner the market on French wine & truffles? If so can someone please point out the record, because I have searched and found nothing of the sort? No one would have dreamt of making our country appear weak in our enemies’ eyes. Everyone understood that giving aid and comfort to the enemy was a very bad idea at best and traitorous at worst. And making our country and its leaders appear weak would have been correctly seen as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. And yet all this and more is regular fare these days.

In the midst of a war that is more dangerous by far than any we have fought, we have a group of people who are seemingly oblivious to the dangers and whose only concern is power. It makes no difference to them what is damaged on their road to power, their only concern being attaining this power, or so it seems from my humble spot out in the sticks.

Naturally at this point the skeptics are wondering if it’s possible to have dissent in my view of the world. I think it’s not only possible but absolutely crucial to have dissent. But dissent differs by an order of magnitude from the politics of destruction. And no I don’t want the government to limit free speech, but on the other hand I do want my Government officials and yes that includes Democrats to observe the simple fact that just because you CAN say something doesn’t mean you SHOULD say it. Policy differences are a worthwhile topic for discussion, accusing the Administration of planning the war on Iraq to get contracts for Halliburton is stepping out a bit far. It hurts both sides of the debate, by casting doubt amongst the unread public and it destroys the credibility of our two party system by destroying the Democratic Party with those better read.

The question must be asked of the Democrats, is the war on terror won? Have we passed that time of terrible danger? Do I no longer have to fear waking up in the morning and while I’m putting shoes on my daughter having my wife call asking me if I see the television. And when I turn it on, can I be sure that she is just warning me of some amusing story and not some tragedy of biblical proportions? Will I see smiles and not terror? Will my two daughters and one son be able to sit down and watch this together or must I send them into the other room while the scenes of some terrible murderous rampage are played out on television? If the answer to this, is the possibility for terror on that scale still exists, who is the greater enemy, George Bush or the Islamofacists? Do the Democrats enhance our countries security by dragging the President down into the gutter with accusations of treason, betrayal, conspiracy and whatever else penetrates their singled minded pursuit of power? Is it better for our enemies to believe that there is a group of politicians who would appease them? Do they fear John Kerry or George W. Bush as James Lileks so brilliantly points out.

Its time for the serious Democrats to win the control of their party. They were once the warriors who were fearless, carrying battles to the far corners of the world to root out and destroy the worst in mankind before those war's fell to their children. Now they have become the party of, lets delay the inevitable and let the following generations deal with the mess. Now they laugh at anyone so common as to call someone or some country evil, to the worst of the Democratic party evil apparently stopped existing when the Nazis were defeated. Now the only places where evil might be found are those places where the US has acted to free people. It is the US that is evil, not the thugs who drop children into paper shredders, it is the US that is depraved, not the thugs who demand that a woman raped have 4 men testify that they witnessed the rape and unless the poor soul can find those men she is stoned to death as an adulterous....evil only exists to these Democrats where it is easily confronted. When evil men with bad intentions are faced, evil conveniently is never seen. They declare themselves Alpha males, but its evident that bravery is unknown to these men. Foolish risks taken in the heat of the moment is not a token of bravery but stupidity, true bravery can only exist when its exhibited by a person in full control of his facilities, who knows he may lose his life but that if he doesn’t act he may lose something even more dear. That is bravery. That is the fireman racing up the stairs, that is the Special Forces operator deep in enemy territory, that is common foot soldier deep into an area, that has suffered a thousand years of war, doing his best to apply his self taught common sense on a seemingly unsolvable situation, that is a President who takes difficult decisions because that’s what he is supposed to do. Alpha males, bah its only a Metro Sexual’s description of what the rest of us know as a poser.

The war is on and whether we will fight or not the enemy is upon us. Who will defend us best? Who does the enemy fear more, that’s who I want as my President.

Here is more from Instapundit who naturally has links to alot of people more eloquent than I.