Posted on 11/05/2004 10:44:33 AM PST by CitadelArmyJag
Mr. Krugman, In response to your most recent article, “No Surrender,” which was delightfully dripping with anger. Aside from the fact that it was completely ridiculous, I found your rant horrendously entertaining and disgusting, which prompted me to offer you the thoughts of a young conservative Army officer. You can try to convince yourself and others that the President's victory was one begotten only through vestige sentiments of 9/11 and through the meddlesome intervention of the “religious right,” but this fails to explain the losses that your party has incurred in every election for over a decade now. With the exception of the anomalous Clinton Presidency, which never received the percentage of the vote that Bush just did, your party has not held the executive office since 1980. Come 2008, you will have been out of the office of the presidency for twenty of the last twenty-eight years. Things have been equally bleak for you in the Congress, as you have lost seats and remained a minority in the House for over a decade now. In the Senate, your numbers continue to diminish, with your very leader being ousted this past week. Yet still, you claim “No Surrender!” The ridiculousness of this statement, cried out by you effeminate peaceniks and perpetual capitulators, is only fully revealed when juxtaposed to the unremitting resolve of our President and Armed Forces. I understand that you are jealous and feel alienated from a country that shares neither your liberal agenda nor your twisted moral relativism. Allow me to try to explain it to you. Firstly, your Party is one surrounded by scandal and controversy, and this is no fluke. The Democratic Party suffers from a lack of moral absolutes and the traditional, AMERICAN values that this country holds dear. You have lost the ear of the everyday people, as you no longer have leaders like FDR, Truman, or Kennedy, but have only a party of radical, secular, and socialist fanatics. These fanatics are typified by negative, lying propagandists like Michael Moore and the criminals like Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Jim Traficant, Al Sharpton, Clinton, McGreevy, etc, etc. These “leaders” no longer provide leadership in this country, but issue only “a long litany of complaints.” There are no solutions offered to these complaints, which are then spuriously propagated by media hacks such as yourself. Your party panders to the errant sense of entitlement held by the weakest parts of our society. You are fear mongers, race baters, and poverty pimps, who offer not true leadership, but only fear and dependency. The left tries to divide this country and promulgate the perception of “two Americas.” This a approach at governance is derived not from the Constitution, but from the Communist Manifesto, where talk of optimistic opportunity and personal responsibility is replaced with inflammatory comments directed towards inciting warfare between the classes. Again, as you may gather from the last election, it is not working. But don't surrender yet, as there is more… The scandals and controversies of your party disgust the American people, as they reveal the true core of the Democratic leadership. I am not saying it is not inspirational. The only problem is that it inspires the wrong people. The left has been propping up the enemies of this nation since Vietnam, and has found aid in comfort in your disloyal rants against everything America. Do you ever wonder why Yassar Arafat might have endorsed Kerry? Why Osama Bin Laden so HATES Bush? Do you wonder why eight of the nineteen September 11th hijackers were registered –by A.C.O.R.N. incidentally- democrats? Tell me Krugy, Why do the French love you so? Zell Miller knows! It is because the Democratic Party is “A National Party No More,” having come to prefer a more European, secular and socialist society. Now take a breath Krugster, I am not saying that the entire Democratic Party is comprised of Islamic terrorists. After all, you are a BIG TENT party, with other pseudo-terrorists groups like E.L.F, and P.E.T.A., N.O.W., and N.A.R.A.L. However, the Big Tent party doesn’t stop there… lets not forget the diverse thought pool of liberal academia and the old media, whose disloyalty is only equaled by their pretension and arrogance –another important tenet of liberalism. Newsweek just reported Kerry to have said during his campaign, “I can’t believe that I am losing to this idiot.” IF your leaders aren’t [war] criminals or charlatans –and Kerry was both-, they most certainly are elitist snobs who radiate condescension and self-importance to all who have the misfortune of encountering them. Thus, the American people have done their best to limit their encounters with you by canceling their subscriptions to your liberal rags and by changing the channel. The old media no longer provides your party with the privilege of a filter rose tinted filter, through which your party is propagandized, and conversely, conservatives are vilified. You whine and exclaim, “Propaganda?!?" Oh now, these things happen… Look at Abu Gharib”… Doesn’t anybody care?” The answer is a resounding NO! You must find yourself desperate to understand why the American people didn’t “hold Bush and his cronies accountable” in the last election, if not for the controversies you created, than for their sheer simplicity and inferiority. My answer to you, which you undoubtedly won’t believe or understand, is that the American people sees the contrived attacks made by your leftist papers and networks as just that, contrived attacks. They trust George W. Bush, and believe in the right to protect ourselves without having passed some arbitrary “global test,” and share his belief that marriage is something sacred and worth protecting. I will let you in on a little secret, in mainstream America religious faith and conviction isn’t viewed as pedestrian, and protecting ourselves from terrorism isn’t viewed as a “war crime.” You can say it wasn’t a landslide, but Bush won over 40% of the vote in 47 states. Kerry won over 40% of the vote in 13 states. Bush received more votes than any other President has ever received, and won the popular vote by nearly four million votes. This is something that your beloved Clinton never did, and it’s the first mandate since Bush Sr. beat another out of touch liberal from Massachusetts back in 1988. Your incomprehension of these things is neither unexpected nor unwelcome, as you our party will continue to grow as the Democratic Party continues to separate itself from the majority of the American people. This trend will continue until your party finds a soul again, and in consideration of your own vow to offer “No Surrender,” it doesn’t appear that this epiphany will occur any time soon.
Oh God, tell me you put paragraph breaks in the version you sent to NYT...
Bump!
"Don't Surrender!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender")
Yeah, Dem Lib'rals got no class...RATS' tyranny's built fer fools...
We learn more from the FReepublic Forum, Nation, then we ever learned in school!!
We'll fight Left's fear...our neighborhoods're standin' proud...
Singin' from our hearts...we're singin' loud!!
We shan't git tired...our goal must be EXPOSE Left's LIES!!
So git up and FReep now...
Dutch Reagan's promise lives on in all who remember...
Yer Effete, Kerry, you'll surrender!!
We're soldiers in a Righteous fight...it's our Peace we'll defend...
RATS retreat, Kerry, you'll surrender!!
DemRAT faces are mad and cold...
Left's schemes are weak and olde...
We abhor Big Guv'ment and Medyuh Spin...
And Right's ready to stand tall again!!
We hear the Lib'rals voices cheerin' fer John...
DemRATS, they ain't too smart!!
Well maybe we could give Libs a place of their own...
Send Dem Lib-uh-rulls to Mars!!
Folks, George Dubyuh's promise since that sad day in September...
"No retreat...Dubyuh won't surrender!!"
George Dubyuh, he will do what's Right...our Country he'll defend!!
Don't retreat, Nation, don't surrender!!
Folks, hit the streets to fight fer Right...we'll win!!
We're armed with the TRUTH 'gainst Lib'ral spin...
Culture War's the fight we're wagin'...
RATS say the fault's ours fer the war we're winnin'...
I wanna FReep Elites...Peacenik's LIE...damn the Lib'rals' dread!!
Fer our wide open country we shall fight...we got heroic dreams in our head!!
Folks, George Dubyuh's promise since that sad day in September...
"No retreat, Country won't surrender!!"
George Dubyuh, he will do what's Right...our Country he'll defend!!
Boldly FReep, Nation don't surrender!!
Mudboy Slim
If you stare at it just right you can see Krugman's face in the text.
Right. The 60's liberal psychotics have had their brief run with the Clintons. They thought the Clinton presidency was just the start when actually it was the peak. They are has beens, just like Dashle. That generation has passed and mantle of power moves on to the next. Our young sons and daughters don't even know who Bob Dillon and Carol King are, and they also don't care. Contrary to the Krugman type opinions, this is not Bush radically taking America, it is the sound of a dying dinosaur called the 60's generation. Sure, they still think they are cool and know more than the midlands, but they are fading into oblivion as the next new generation cares less about their bleeding hearts, and none too soon. We live in a troubled and dangerous world, and to preserve our way is going to take a lot more than Hillary flipping the peace sign all over again. So walk away Clintons. This election proved that money and old media are irrelevant. Stay holed up in your urban penthouse enclave Krugman. You're buddies Clinton and Kerry, have traded up from being Arkansas hicks. Isn't that what they wanted? The respect of the New York Slimes elite? Excellent. They got you and so now just go on together with your cackling chorus like a bunch of wet hens. The rest of America is out there inventing a bright future for ourselves, and we don't mind leaving you bloodsucking, pussy-whipped liberals to save the environment, your homosexual friends, and all the teachers in the NEA from the rest of the nation of hicks who actually have the plans and the ability to make the world a truly better place.
Sir:
YOU are brilliant and DEAD ON.
RLTW
Yikes.... Yeah, that didnt post very well here did it? Sorry about that.
WHOOP WHOOP! Excellent letter.
Great post!
Might be a long read, but it's really well written. Excellent response.
Thank you for posting this inspiring reply to Mr. Krugman's commentary in the NYT.
I hope President Bush is given the opportunity to read this letter.
Over and over I'm reminded of Peggy Noonan telling Chris Matthews "You just meet a better class of man in our military" :)
PROUD Screaming Eagle Mom:)
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Yup. And I married one!
Proofread before sending.
Note "filter rose colered filter" and "as you our party will continue to grow as".
Excellent article!!! You have said everything better than I can express. Kudos to you, Sir!!!
As a wife of a young conservative Army officer I applaud you for standing up to this broad. Liberals think that Middle America have lost their minds. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is the liberals that have lost touch with reality. Thank you for your service, sir!
31st ADA Ft. Bliss, TX
HOOAH!!!!
Ping
Americas voice from one of Americas finest. Thank you for protecting my life and those of my fellow Americans albeit even if they don't want it!
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