[CharlesThe Hammer]

Superb discussion MARRON. Your allusion to Jacobin egalitarianism as the root of the Red Menace, and your accurate depiction of our loss of heart in the Vietnam proxy battle of the Cold War, revitalized my resolve by their allegiance to shining Truth. Your piece is not only worthy of a careful reading, it is a stern klaxton that general quarters are on for "all hands". The equivocation, revisionism, minimizing, and assorted "fifth column" ploys have begun: "The President is a draft dodger."; "The Iraq war was an engineered political trick."; "Mounting casualties in Iraq undermine the President's credibility"; "President Bush lied about WMDs"; "There is no exit strategy for Iraq". A traitor is held up as a "war hero". Victory is relabeled as defeat. A vigorous economy is harangued as a jobless depression. Honorable men are called liars. Liars swear to their calumny. It's all so familiar; 1974 all over again. This time it's going to be different. No losing heart. Semper fi.

[Fawnn]

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness..." -Is. 5:20

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It's all so familiar; 1974 all over again. This time it's going to be different. No losing heart.

1974? Very much so, in the sense that the Democrats are again trying to remove an honorable incumbent with extreme tendentiousness.

But I prefer to say that the Democrats want 1964 - to elect a president, and a Congress, which would be as politically overwhelming and as feckless and inept as the Johnson Administration. A catastrophe in foreign and domestic policy from which we have been gradually recovering for forty years. That is their objective, but they will please God fall halfway short - squarely in the 1984 Reagan reelection landslide.