Bush bashing is not really about Bush

FPM ^ | 7/29/04 | David Horowitz

[swilhelm73]

Many observers of the Democratic convention have noted how the Democrats managed to get their Bush-bashing under control. Of course, it's all relative. Their principal speakers accused Bush of being unpatriotic, of lying to send Americans to their (needless) deaths ("I will not be a president who misleads..." was the way Kerry put it) and of letting the Saudis run the war against terror -- shades of the convention's biggest celebrity, Michael Moore. So the under-control facade was no more than a cosmetic understating of their standard vicious and unprincipled attacks (and don't you love how they whine about Republicans conducting a negative campaign),

But it is a cardinal mistake to presume this ferocious near-psychotic hate is all about George Bush. Every individual has personality traits that can become irritating given the right surrounding cirumstances. So his famous smirk can seem smug, his humor callous, his religious faith threateningly intolerant for those who dislike him for other reasons. Which is precisely the point. Jimmy Carter's faith, or Jesse Jacksons for that matter, never cause Democrats the slightest concern. That's because they are leftists who share the Democrats now dominant antagonism to American purposes. For that is what the Bush-bashing is really about -- the Democrats hatred of the war on terror. All the boilerplate baloney of the Democratic convention, the military salutes, the bravado about winning the war on terror was so much smoke in the eyes designed to cover up this basic fact. The Democrats do not accept that we are at war with radical Islam and a loose confederation of terrorist states which includes Iran, Syria, the Palestinian Authority and the non-Islamic dictatorship of North Korea. Nor do they want to recognize that France is not an ally and the UN, a moral cesspool, is a collection of tyrannies dominated by the double-dealing anti-American League of Arab states (yes, we deal with them, but that is because a divided nation, which is what we are, cannot fight them all at once, nor would it be smart to do so).

Unwillingness to recognize these facts is why the Democrats hate John Ashcroft, ridicule Tom Ridge and want Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld removed. But there is a deeper reason as well. Radical Islam shares the fundamental attitudes towards America of the radical left and is in a defacto alliance with the radical left (as I will show in a book called Unholy Alliance to be published by Regnery in September). This radical left is now deeply entrencehd in the Democratic Party. One radical leftist organization the SEIU is contributing $64 million to the Democratic presidential campaign this year. The stranglehold the left has on the Democratic Party was evident in the roster of stars at the party convention: Sharpton, Kennedy, Carter, Teresa and Moore. But it is the rise of extra-party fund-raising organizations like the radically left Moveon.org combined with the radical government unions (SEIU, AFSCME, NEA) that reflect what has really happened to the Democratic Party. Here is the judgment of a remarkable story that appeared in last Sunday's New York Times ("Wiring the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy" by Matt Bai):

"It is not unthinkable that the privatization of Democratic politics is a step toward institutional obsolescence. People like Andy Rappaport and Jonathan Soros might succeed in revitalizing progressive politics -- while at the same time destroying what we now call the Democratic Party. What seems all but certain is that the future of Democratic politics will more closely resemble MoveOn.org than it will resemble anything that happens on the convention floor in Boston." This is a warning about the influence of the radical left from a more moderate left. Conservatives and Democrats who do not share the anti-American agendas of the radical left should take note. The hatred is not about George Bush or John Ashcroft. Every Republican who opposes the left, every American who opposes the left -- and does so effectively -- will be the target of this hate. It is not personal. It is political and the sooner the rest of us wake up to that fact, the better we will be able to oppose them.

[swilhelm73]

That must have been quite a viewing pleasure. The man is sharp as a tack and unlike the vast majority of conservative pundits pulls *no* punches.

[Deb]

"Payback" is only an excuse. The Left and Democrats are always on the side of those who hate America most. Conversely, they're against anyone who is anti-Communist and vocally pro-US.

PS: Central Casting is a casting office for extras, not actors. It's a common mistake.

[#3Fan]

Yeah, that's what was best about it. He had a Moore-type call in and he got straight to the point and pointed out how "ignorant" the caller was. I hate it when some of them suck-up to the callers. Horowitz didn't. :^)

[okie01]

Here is the judgment of a remarkable story that appeared in last Sunday's New York Times ("Wiring the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy" by Matt Bai)

Has this been posted on FR? If not, it needs to be, I should think.

[okie01]

If you like, the issue concerns the ratio of deep stupidity vs active malice within Dem ranks. Horowitz is basically saying, unless and until the merely stupid ones run the malicious ones out on a rail, the Democratic party is essentially a hostile power.

The Democratic party must reform itself, in the country's best interest.

Otherwise, it must be crushed. Like a bug. And another party must emerge from the ashes. Witness the Whigs...and the Republicans.