Dems hiding the ball

Jewish World Review ^ | 3-2-2004 | David Limbaugh

[BMC1]

Political campaigns ought to be about helping the electorate to determine the candidates' respective positions on the issues, but Democrats, in a number of ways, are determined to obscure rather than clarify, and there has to be a reason for that.

Just look at some of the things they do, all the while pretending to champion "democracy." They try to disenfranchise the military vote. They try to muzzle political speech through draconian campaign finance reform legislation.

They circumvent the will of the people through judicial activism and by blocking the appointment of constitutionalist judges. They seek to intimidate Republicans from discussing the Democratic candidates' records on the issues, such as Kerry's softness on crucial weapons systems, by falsely characterizing such legitimate inquiries as negative campaigning. (All the while, by the way, they flagrantly engage in true dirty campaigning, such as falsely accusing Bush of felonious AWOL while in the Air National Guard).

They willfully alter their stated positions on issues, just to avoid giving President Bush credit for doing what they — the Democrats, not Republicans — wanted in the first place, such as throwing obscene amounts of federal money at public education.

They gratuitously attack the president for almost anything just to have something to criticize him about, such as their ridiculous rush to blame him for the unrest in Haiti. Their knee-jerk reaction to everything is "It's Bush's fault," rather than attempting to contribute constructively to formulating solutions for the problems. They criticize Bush for his unilateralism, then condemn him for not intervening unilaterally in Haiti.

They mislead the public by saying Bush misled the public about intelligence information on WMD to which they had equal access and upon which they based their decision to support his decision to attack Iraq. They mischaracterize the terrorist activity in post-war Iraq as discontented Iraqis longing for a restoration of Saddam's benevolent rule.

They attempt to paint the president as insensitive to the "working class" because one of his economic advisors truthfully stated that "outsourcing" jobs can be beneficial to the economy because of comparative advantage — a concept even few liberal economists would dispute. They don't tell their constituents, whom they would prefer to exploit, that while some domestic jobs are lost in this process, everyone's prices for goods are reduced, including those whose interests they pretend to safeguard.

[Peach]

Excellent article.

[Tax Government]

Tellint it like it is...

I just read an excellent book about North Korean totalitarianism -- an autobiography by North Korean female spy Hyun Hee Kim, who blew up KAL Flight 858. After capture, she was pardoned in true Christian turn-the-cheek fashion by South Korea. Fyi the title is "The Tears of My Soul"; it was recommended by an FR post a few weeks back.

The parallels between democRATs and the rulers of North Korea are too striking to ignore. One can see this in both groups' cynicism, manipulativeness, and eagnerness to control public opinion. If democRATs had half a chance, America's system would be far closer to North Korea's than it is now.

Take that, demoSWINE.

[AFPhys]

This article is one of the best that I've ever read refuting the concept of Kerry as president.

The part of the article NOT copied above is even better than that copied. I encourage everyone to take a trip to JWR to read it.

[Peach]

That is a terrific article. Thanks for pointing it out.