Why the Dems Will Lose

National Review Online ^ | 7-30-04 | Michael Novak

[BibChr]

Wow. The party without a soul.

I've often said: they sold their soul for Bill Clinton.

Remains sold.

Dan

[maica]

Good work!

The only translation tool needed for Dem speak is to reverse the polarity. Add or subtract the negative to each sentence to get the true meaning of any dem statement. They hide their true feelings, but this translation tool reveals all very easily!

What Kerry/Shrum/McAuliffe are really selling:

Pessimism
Tax Increases
Destruction of the Family
Weak on defense

[EllaMinnow]

In that same spirit, I find it hard to believe that the Creator who gave us liberty will ignore President Bush's willingness to sacrifice his own presidency for the liberation of Afghanistan and Iraq — their 50 million citizens, and perhaps their progeny for ages to come. A kind of cosmic justice (which does not always materialize, I recognize) calls for vindication. Especially when the president has been so unfairly calumniated by his foes, domestic and foreign.

Wow.

[Lurking in Kansas]

*bravo*

One of your better ones! ;-)

[maica]

I not only agree with you, I hear the undertones of priming for the "revolution" in the words of Clinton, Rangel and others this summer. I think prayer and vigilance are our only hope after W wins.

The Dems believe that it is their destiny to dispense "government" money. Any time the Rs do it is, by definition, illegitimate.


The Entitlement constituencies are being told that they are being cheated by this administration. Just one example: Bush gave Kennedy the No Child Left Behind money, a huge increase in federal funding for education, but the day after the bill-signing it was not enough for the dems.

[NavyCanDo]

As a Veteran it made me ill to see the parade of his "band of brothers", and the major focus on Kerry's tour in Vietnam including showing the film. You would of swore he was the greatest hero of the war. A Rambo. When he approached the podium, and said "I am John Kerry and I am reporting for duty" then saluting the delegates, I nearly lost it. He is a sicko….

It was an impassioned speech that fired up the delegates, but a complete failure in my opinion. I have always said John Kerry is a "ME TOO, BUT I CAN DO IT BETTER" sort of guy, and that speech was just that. He chose to Present himself as a better War President, but gave few details on how he would do that other than increase the military by 40,000 troops (which will be needed to replace those who will leave the military if this jerk becomes their Commander and Chief.) And he would restore our relationships to the countries that were against us going to Iraq. He didn't say he would pull troops out of Iraq or offer an exit strategy which angers the No-War-In-Iraq people. I could hear their anger last night on KIRO radio. It was hilarious.

A failure because - the speech alienated the anti-war democrats, who will have to hold their nose and vote for the non-Bush or go with their convictions and vote Nader. Polls show that people think Bush is a better person for fighting the war in Iraq and on terrorism. Kerry will have to convince those people otherwise, without flip-flopping on what is already on record. Like when he said Bush does not have enough troops in Iraq to do the job, and now he is saying no more should be sent. It's also hard to convince people he is the better war president when most troops support Bush.
The rest of the speech was the normal preaching of the DNC Party lines, that big industry outsourcing jobs, the evil drug companies, richest among us need to be taxed more, we should never go to war alone, women's rights, abortion, etc.

[SunnySide]

after November, Kerry chillin out with french bread

[Jalapeno]

Yes, since they coined the phrase "Character doesn't matter" back in 92, it has been a complete downward spiral.

[KDD]

Bush will win even though many conservatives are angry with his liberal big govt. expansions(everythig from his generous with our money social policies to increasing police state powers), and his open borders policies.

But Bush understands the Muslim threat.

And Kerry is a foolish man. He is unelectable

The Democrats might as well ran Sharpton.

Small government conservatives and civil libertarians are left with but one choice, and that is to vote for national security...and that means a vote for Bush.





And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action..

[LS]

It's going to be ugly, so get ready. They will DEFINITELY try to impeach Bush over something---obviously, as long as we hold the House, that's a non-starter.

If we EXPAND our lead in the Senate, they will go utterly ballistic. (If we had the foresight to run good candidates in IL, NV, AR, and CA, we could have possibly gotten the 60 votes and then, I'm convinced, they would have gotten violent).

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thank you very much. I've sent them a few but to no avail. That one is a little caustic. True but caustic.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Thanks.

[VadeRetro]

Novak, who too often seems rather Machiavellian, lost in tactical detail, almost bloodless, wrote this well.

[Charlotte Corday]

How will they hate him when they lose to him on November 2 by three or four percentage points?

Is three or four points nationwide a sufficient margin considering the Democratic vote fraud/refight the election in the courts strategy??

[Legion04]

I saw a bit of kerry's speech at the DNC yesterday and he was talking about how he will fight terrorism and really stressing on terrorists and terrorism for a bit.
uhhhh...hate to break it to you johnny boy, but President Bush has already been fighting terrorism and continues to do a great job at doing so.

[Paradox]

What will it be like — if after all this hatred, all this effort, all those millions upon millions of dollars spent to express disdain, contempt, and hate — Bush wins again, flashes a victory symbol over his head, grins, strides around shaking hands, glows with exuberance and radiance?

I have thought about this quite a bit. I have never seen this kind of hatred for the President, and believe me, it sometimes got pretty bad here on FreeRepublic for Clinton. But nowhere near the frenzy that is MAINSTREAM in the Left today. I hate to say this, but I would not be shocked if a Bush win would lead to an assassination attempt on him sometime later.

[myself6]

Ive been racking my brains for years trying to come up with a way to make the left TOTALLY lose it. I want them to become ultra-radical and openly violent. I want them to have the perception that they cannot achieve their twisted goals through civil means.

In short, I want them to start the revolution.

why?

Because it will finally give us a legitimate excuse to shoot them. More importantly though, this is the only way we are going to get OUR revolution started.

[Tax Government]

Anyone who wants to be president as much as Kerry does, is automatically disqualified.

[BibChr]

Yeah. Who knew that would have consequences?

Okay, you.

Well, and me.

And most everyone else.

But I mean, besides that.

Dan

[skeeter]

I have thought about this quite a bit. I have never seen this kind of hatred for the President, and believe me, it sometimes got pretty bad here on FreeRepublic for Clinton

I've thought about this as well, and have concluded that what we felt for Clinton was nothing like thier hatred for Bush. The animosity for Clinton was a reaction - to his obvious dishonesty & immorality, to his constant references to his political opponents(me included) as 'the bad guys' responsible for every ill imaginable, etc. Compounding the frustration was the shifting standards of the 'watchdog' press never calling him to account.

Bush has done nothing if not reach out to his opponents. He has never sought to divide as a political ploy, and any mistakes he's made have been out of his desire to do whats right. And the mainstream media have scarcely given him credit for his authentic achievements.

I can understand being opposed to Bush on principle, even to the point of wanting badly to see him beaten in Nov. But I cannot understand the hatred.