Mark Steyn: Wallowing in nuance, Dems lack resolve

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | April 25 2004 | Mark Steyn

[knighthawk]

Ping

[claudiustg]

The more people see of Kerry and his liberal boosters, the better Bush looks.

[Pokey78]

Thanks for the ping!

[MEG33]

Do Americans want to turn Iraq over to someone who won't even take responsibility for the car in his driveway?...Great line.

Actually "the family" owns a long list of gas guzzlers.He was very proud of this fact when visiting an automobile plant...hmmmm

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey! And thanks, knighthawk, for posting it!

The left is foundering because they don't understand how most of the American people think. Good.

[Slings and Arrows]

If Rush has talent on loan from G-d, Steyn has a 99-year lease on his.

Magnificent!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

So, when four contractors get lynched and hung off a bridge in Fallujah, poor foolish Sen. Robert Byrd may think it's time for an ''exit strategy,'' but most Americans want to see the thugs who did it hunted down and killed.

To the unrepayable debt we owe Pat Tillman, we can add that the fact of his celebrity has caused a leap in the number of Americans who now realize that we are involved in a WAR. As this number gets larger our national resolve stiffens. (Even as a certain segment of Congress becomes ever more deeply saddened.)

[McGavin999]

LOL, not only gas guzzelers, but foreign gas guzzelers as well.

[Southack]

" If I had to name the definitive Kerry campaign headline it would be..."

... NEWSFLASH: Democrats discover that they have no new ideas since the 3 decade old Roe v Wade decision, no positive policy ideas for governing America in the future, and a nasty tendency to complain, criticize, bite ankles, and otherwise act like petulant back seat drivers.

[Paul_B]

> do Americans want to hand over responsibility for Iraq to someone who won't even take responsibility for the car in his driveway?

Awesome. Great work, Mark.

[sine_nomine]

He is always brilliant.

[JLS]

As you say what a great ending line and what a great column.

[mewzilla]

Awesome is a darn good word. The whole column. Wow.

[Aeronaut]

And do Americans want to hand over responsibility for Iraq to someone who won't even take responsibility for the car in his driveway?

Someone will jump on this as a tagline, as well they should.

[Gritty]

...do Americans want to hand over Iraq to someone who won't take responsibility for the car in his driveway?

Steyn is priceless. Simply priceless!

[Slings and Arrows]

...in other news, the sun rose in the East.

[Watery Tart]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey!

And thank you, knightkawk for not excerpting!

Thus, the president's numbers aren't affected by the sob sisters of CNN's Baghdad bureau filing their heartrending reports on how thousands of Baathist apparatchiks haven't been paid since they were made redundant from Saddam's Department of Genital Mutilation and Electrode Clamping last April.

No one says it better.

[Common Tator]

I would invite you to consider what every realistic Democrat knows. Defeating George W. Bush in 2004, would be a disaster for Democrats.

That is the big reason that Hillary will not run in 2004 even if she could defeat George Bush in a landslide.

Does any Democratic leader think that pulling out of Iraq mean we would be safe? Would it occur to Hillary and Bill, for example, that all the attacks on the US in Iraq would be redirected to attacks on the US in Afghanistan?

Would it occur to Hllary and Bill that a withdrawal from the Middle east would encourage the Militant Muslims to make major attacks on the United States mainland. Would the stories that the attacks on our troops in Afghaniistan were coming from Iraq endear Hillary to the voters for pulling out of Iraq.

Consider the consequences of a full or even partial pull out. The Muslims would have total proof that our Colors do run. If they thought it before 911 they would know it now. Would they then pull back and leave us alone, or would they attack in the U.S. with all the force they could muster?

They could surely recruit a few non Arab looking people already in the U.S. They could use truck bombs to destroy 20 elementary schools and 10 shopping centers in one day. Ten thousand dead American children and 10 thousand dead American adults would not aid Hillary's popularity. Would that have the socker mom's screaming hatrid at a President Hillary or what? Can you imagine the people understanding that when the choice was fight them over there or fight them over here, Hillary chose over here?

The other option for a President Hillary would be to stay and fight. The problem is Republicans would not offer a President Hillary much support and the Democrats would turn on her. Hillary would get luke warm suport from Republicans. She would get Teddy Kennedy and Sentor Byrd like support from Democrats. She would face real critism from both the left and the right. She would be in a no win situation. After a terrible attack on the US, Democrats would be in the EAT OUR OWN mode and Hillarys's butt would have an "OUR OWN" tattoo in big red letters.

Democrats have spent the last 4 years burning bipartisan support bridges. There would be few if any pro war votes for a President Hillary from either side of the isle. To win in the middle east will take support from Congress and the people that no Democrat including Hillary could get.

Hillary winning the presidency in 2004, could be compared to crowding in to get to the head of the line for the Gas Chamber at Auschwitz. It is not a good thing to do. She will not do it.

[metesky]

Awsome! Tanks.