Will My Democrat Friends Really Watch and Cheer This?

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 9/13/06 | Purple Mountains

[PurpleMountains]

I have many friends who are Democrats. I believe most of them are more moderate than those whose rantings are off the wall, but their silence has been deafening in the face of such episodes as the trashing of Justice Roberts and his family, calling the President a Hitler, equating Guantanamo to Soviet gulags and Nazi concentration camps, exposing secret programs that protect us, the Plame-Wilson cabal, etc., etc., etc. When you stand silently by when something is done in your name, you lend support to that something. Are you going to stand silently by as this film is shown and cheered or are you going to stand up and say, “wait a minute; this is beyond the pale – even for Bush haters”?

[rj45mis]

The thing I have been wrestling with is at what point do honorable people speak up and say, enough! Where is the outcry against this sickness? Our politicians are so embroiled in reelection campaigns they don't want to say anything to lend ammunition to the opponents. I believe Santorum and other honorable men and women should speak out and condemn this in spite of their politics. Where are the real men in our country...besides in the WH.

[syriacus]

Many Democrats do not think things through. The float through life on slogans and "ideals."

They will not change until they see one of their major "ideals" crushed by their own party. Let's hope some Democratic voters are shocked at this mistreatment of our President.

For me, a former super liberal, it was my party's attacks on Clarence Thomas that woke me up.

To me, the Democratic party had always been the party of "fairness." I watched most of the hearings, and couldn't help but notice the Left's misrepresentation of what transpired.

I could no longer belong to a party filled with people who would sacrifice a human being in order to score points.