Posted on 10/17/2004 10:19:15 PM PDT by kattracks
With eye-crossingly close presidential polls, it's time to imagine what it would be like to live through the Kerry years. Kerry -- unchanged, he says, by the attacks of Sept. 11 -- promises to take us "to the place we were, where terrorists are ... a nuisance." Flying blind on Sept. 10th. No messy wars on the horizon. No civilizational death struggles in sight. All we have to fear is the occasional attack on the skyscraper, the disco, the embassy, the barracks, the school, the resort, the bus.Twenty-five Chechens have crossed the Arizona border? What a nuisance. Happy days are here again.
What would Kerry's leadership bring? He has planned his first swoony days in office, a post-election honeymoon, but with the United Nations, not the U.S. Congress. In those first weeks, Kerry would go to the U.N. and "to our traditional allies to affirm that the United States has rejoined the community of nations."Why wait? Inaugurations are probably overrated. Indeed, the sooner a President Kerry returns from his Mea Culpa Tour, the sooner a President Kerry starts the Iraqi Peace Talks with all factions, including, as France has so tactfully suggested, "a certain number of groups or people who now have chosen the path of resistance by arms." Sounds like Baathist remnants and Al Qaeda affiliates to me. I wonder if the French definition of "arms" includes hacksaws? Oh well. I can see the peace conference now, and the White House photo-op to follow: John, Jacques, maybe Moqtada. Which must be what Kerry means by "global test."
But first, that quick lap around the oil-for-food wing of the U.N. Security Council. For what else is Kerry's "community of nations" but those biggest wheels on the take from Saddam Hussein -- France, Germany, Russia, China? (Yes, the same nations that obstructed pre-war U.S. efforts at the Security Council.) Meanwhile, the 30 nations of Bush's coalition just might be "no-go" zones for a President Kerry after all the garbage Candidate Kerry has heaped on their contributions to the war on terror.
"Immoral" is what Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski calls his Kerry treatment. Italy, a nation that has bled for Iraq, is smarting anew over an old Kerry slap broadcast on Italian television this week. "The Iraqi army," Kerry said before the war, "is in such bad shape even the Italian army could kick their butts."So much for politesse, or lack thereof -- something to expect in a Kerry administration. Remember Debate Two? Kerry was unguardedly true to his sun-kingly self when justifying a tax hike for Americans, including small-business owners, who earn $200,000 or more. "Looking around here, at this group here," he said, "I suspect there are only three people here who are going to be affected" by his tax increase: himself, the president and ABC's Charles Gibson. In other words, John Kerry scanned that room full of American citizens and decided no one looked his equal. Le top bracket, c'est moi. Yuck.
Was he right? Not about voters' incomes, but, really, about anything? Was John Kerry right to champion the cause of North Vietnam's brutal communist dictators? (They think so: The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City depicts Kerry as a hero of its victory against the United States.) Was he right to boost the Soviet-supported Sandinista regime in Nicaragua? To knock the liberation of Marxist Grenada as a "bully's show of force"? To embrace the nuclear freeze movement during the height of the Cold War? To vote against the first Gulf War? If Americans elect John Kerry president, they will answer yes, validating a long career of uninterrupted, unshakeable leftism that has opposed, time and again, the expansion of freedom and democracy.
If Kerry had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power, and in Kuwait. If Kerry had his way, Ronald Reagan's military expansion, which bloodlessly defeated the Soviet Union, would never have occurred. Indeed, Kerry called the Strategic Defense Initiative, the visionary straw that broke the U.S.S.R.'s back, a "cancer on our nation's defense." If, in a time of war, we elect a man whose idea of protecting American lives is holding summits, canceling such vital weapons programs as "bunker-buster" nukes, and allowing such enemies as Iran to keep its nuclear power plants in exchange for promises, we would not only be repudiating the security-boosting moral interventionism of President Bush. We would also be rejecting the doctrine of peace through strength that Ronald Reagan applied with triumphant result against communism's evil empire.
Of course, John Kerry called the Reagan years a "moral darkness." Was he right? I would hope the answer breaks the tie.
May God help us all
Don’t panic. If JK wins, life will go on. America survived four years of the Peanut Peacenik and eight of the Arkansas Sinkmeister — it’ll survive John Freaking Kerry. We’re tough.
What do I plan to do if Kerry wins? Sit down at my desk and go to work as usual, that’s what. It's my duty, and I intend to do it, no matter who's calling the shots from the Big Desk.
The government is not America. The people are America. As long as we average folk keep our optimism and our faith, we'll do just fine.
Yes, life will go on if Kerry wins but it will go on with Hillary Clinton getting a lifetime appointment to The Supreme Court of the U.S. Should that happen, life is over as we've known it.
I'm not that optomistic about Kerry.
If he gets elected, it will send a very bone-chilling message to the terrorists - America can be had.
I expect we will be hit again, and again, and again. Hopefully, most of us will survive. But .. what if they manage to hit the capital - it will bring govt to a standstill - while that might be a good thing in some respects - it would not be a good thing.
But .. I don't believe Kerry will be elected. The public may not like Bush .. but reality says Kerry is on another planet if he think he can negotiated with them.
Unless the Rats get 60 Senate seats, Hillary has no chance of confirmation to the Supreme Court does she?
Kerry I think can only win through fraud, which is a good possibility. If he succeeds, we will take some hits, you're right about that. Kerry could be replaced in four years by a hard line candidate who would win on a promise of internment camps and massive bombing campaigns.
No doubt about it. Only problem is it will probably be far worse than 9/11.
Nonsense. I can think of a dozen GOP senators off the top of my head who would vote to confirm her. They did not stop Ruth Bader Ginsburg, they will not stop Hillary.
This plus side is unlimited flu shots! sarcasm of course!
Something to make you wake up screaming.
"The horror! The horror!..."
Don't shudder, Honey! It isn't going to happen!
Kerry's gonna lose
That is just the sort delusion that precludes a revolution. The founders provided a way to handle a situation like we have today in America i.e. the 2nd amendment.. Lulled to sleep by platitudes like above.. is what has caused "us" to be on the brink of America becoming a democracy in the final morphing of this republic to Mob Rule(democracy).. Optimism is Utopian thinking when it is time for a healthy Pessimism.. because there are times
I tend to be an Opto-pessimist because there is time for both.. The "ever the optimist" types are Utopian in nature.. much like communists.. There is room for optimism and pessimism but knowing proper the time for them separates one from becoming a sheeple.. and food for the wolves.. After the Bolsheviks(1917) the Russian people did NOT do just fine... The Bolshiviks were few.. american democrats are NOT few... to say america is not prime for revolution, civil war, or some kind of insurrection is, well, utopian.. And Toto will not be welcome this trip over the rainbow.. all the good witches are dead...
Kerry is going down this time around - I'm not waiting through 4 years of his garbage.
I've just recently read an article from the very left - within her article, she discusses with several of her lefty friends that she does not believe Kerry has any idea what the WOT is all about, and she's voting Bush. Some of her friends agree.
If even the extreme left are worried about Kerry's ability to handle the WOT .. there are going to be hoards of democrats voting for Bush.
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