Hugh Hewitt MEGA PING!!
Posted on 12/17/2003 12:48:30 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Dean goes over the cliff
Posted: December 17, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
"But the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer."
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. That was an amazing statement. We ought to stay and think on it a bit.
The statement came from Howard Dean, who had carefully re-crafted his "big foreign-policy speech" delivered in Los Angeles on Monday to reflect circumstances after the capture of Saddam. So many people are saying stupid things, that the "stupid things people are saying" commentary is accumulating at a torrential rate. Bloggers are in overdrive – see Andrew Sullivan attempting to chronicle the meltdowns here and there.
Some stupid things matter much more than others, particularly those said by leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. Over at the New York Post, Deborah Orin details the profanity and racist language that dominated a Dean fund-raiser, but that's just Dean's core support group talking. We just don't much care what comics Judy Gold and David Cross have to say. (Note that I have to use the word "comic" to let you know who they are, which is why we don't really care what they say.)
But Dean labored long and hard over his set-piece speech. It was premeditated. He can't claim he spoke off the cuff and excuse his words away as he did after the Chris Matthew interview or the NPR meltdown. He's gotta live with this one:
But the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer.
Dean's rivals jumped all over it, according to the New York Times' Jodi Wilgoren and Randal Archibold. But we don't need cues from Dean's fellow candidates. Ask yourself: Is anyone stating such a thing qualified to be president?
This statement is so obstinately ideological and so completely and transparently false, that even the MoveOn.org crowd must have said to themselves, "Whoa. That's pretty weird."
I think Dean may have jumped the shark with this one. And I deeply regret it. No single person better embodies the spirit of the delusional and crank-infected left in this country than Howard Dean. He is the voice of Streisand and all political comics; he is Al Franken with better clothes; he is Congressman McDermott and Sen. Leahy; he is the crowd in front of the A.N.S.W.E.R. rally; and he genuinely represents about 25 percent of the American electorate which is a majority in the Democratic Party.
But not even that 25 percent is that crazy when it comes to Saddam. Howard added megalomania to the witches brew of crazy left thinking, and came down on the side of Saddam's capture not mattering because if Saddam's capture did matter, then Howard's theory of the world would have been flawed.
Howard of the Hague cannot conceive of his view of the world being flawed, so he worked backward to the conclusion that grabbing Saddam doesn't make the United States safer. That is simply and conclusively nuts, and you know it, I know it and most of Dean's people know it.
But Dean doesn't know it. He worked hard on this speech. It is reported that he extensively rewrote it after Sunday's big news. So give him the credit of his own, thought-through conclusions.
Dean isn't fit to be president of the United States because he lacks even a high-school level competency of threat assessment. Period. I fear that even Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary voters will conclude the same thing.
On the chance that the Democratic primary electorate is as deeply infected with delusion as Howard, please visit GeorgeWBush.com and make a contribution in honor of capturing Saddam. Doesn't have to be much. But consider it a vote for sanity and purpose in the White House. And your affirmation that capturing Saddam does indeed make the U.S. safer.
All we have to do is stand by, and watch him implode.
The unfolding of current events- like the capture of Saddam, and the information we are learning- will be the end of him. He's in a hole, and still digging...
……………………….The events of the past week - his endorsement by former Vice President Gore and a major foreign-policy speech made all the more newsworthy by the capture of Saddam Hussein - have firmly given him the aura of presumptive Democratic nominee. And even if the Democrats' informal "stop Dean" movement is pedaling as fast as ever, no single, clear alternative to Dean within the party has emerged.
Thus, analysts say, it is not too soon for the former Vermont governor to shift toward the center and aim his sights solely on the president. In fact, such a move could have the effect of bringing in more Democratic primary supporters, beyond his hard-core liberal base.
"The sooner he begins [to pivot], the better off he'll be" in the general election, says Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, who characterized Dean's foreign policy speech on Monday as moderate overall. "For a while I thought it would cost him with his key supporters, but it's clear that it has not... They want him to do whatever it takes to win."***
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Of that I have no doubt. Another year of reinventing, spinning and lying (and that's just the media).
An apt description, eh?
The commie rat added another communist to his foreign policy team the other day, John, the traitor Mark Halperin.
Halperin is also ABC news director.
What an eye-opener!
Like rust, I never sleep...
Seriously, we're all OK- Taffy likes to get me up early for the morning Rat Hunt-- she thinks rats are some kind of wonderful trophy animal, while I just can't get enthused over catching such vermin-- but it's her job, and she's good at it.
I wish I could recall the name of the cartoonist who drew it- years ago, I remember seeing a cartoon of a hunting lodge, with heads of different types of varmints mounted over the fireplace- rats, mice, etc., and a couple of dogs and cats sharing drinks by the fire and reminising over the "game" they had killed...
We on the right/libertarian side were slandered throughout the Clinton years for being "haters," but at least it had roots in facts and evidence. Whether it was selling security secrets to the Red Chinese or blow jobs in the Oval Office, there were reasons to doubt if the Clintons were fit to hold office of any kind, let alone high office.
With President Bush, it's so extreme, it is almost a parody of itself. Comic-opera stuff.
The Left makes me think of a band of mutant, semi-itelligent cockroaches who just learned how to switch on the kitchen lights, and don't realize what they are revealing to the rest of the house...
Duh- the Pulp Mill must be emitting Stupid Gas again...
Why does there have to be a "single, clear alternative" yet? Let the voters decide.
The nation wouldn't be in the situation of having Dean frame the debate if the news magazines, etc, weren't so quick to declare unbeatable frontrunners.
Look at Wesley Clark. The media annointed him the person to stop Dean before he was even registered in the Democratic Party.
If I recall correctly, GWB actually had to beat people in the primaries before he was guaranteed the nomination.
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