Posted on 08/21/2004 7:21:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Conservatives who think progressives are misinformed idealists will forever be blind-sided by the malice of the left-by the cynicism of those who pride themselves on principle, by the viciousness of those who champion sensitivity, by the intolerance of those who call themselves liberal, and by the ruthless disregard for the well-being of the downtrodden by those who preen themselves as social saints.
Conservatives are caught by surprise because they see progressives as merely misguided, when in fact they are fundamentally misdirected. They are the messianists of a religious faith. But it is a false faith and a self-serving religion. Since the redeemed future that justifies their existence and rationalizes their hypocrisy can never be realized, what really motivates progressives is a modern idolatry: their limitless passion for the continuance of Them. .........***Source
Yes, indeed.
This last Swift Boat Vets commercial is the most damning political ad I have ever seen. It uses Kerrys own words to expose him. This last ad is not about medals or how much time one spent in country during their tour. This ad is about honor, and Kerrys lack of it in public testimony before the whole country upon his return. I remember his testimony and prayed that he would pay for his lies some day. Over 30 years later it seems my prayer may be answered.
We won't get a Fonda type apology, and it wouldn't suffice if he gave one.
Anarchists Support Kerry***ATHENS, Ohio - A group of anarchists is taking an unusual step to make its political voice heard - going to the polls.
Anarchists generally pride themselves on their rejection of government and its authority. But a faction of them fed up with the war in Iraq say they plan to cast anti-Bush votes this fall…..***
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.'
-- Winston Smith, "1984" by Geoge Orwell
Here Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely...the fight the Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth have is with Kerry's suitablity to lead America as its President and Commander in Chief..
It was Kerry & crew that decided the ONLY credential Kerry had was his war record...
They did not care that their candidates war record was as phony as he is...
They figured to spin their way out of any situation...
They did not stop to think that every combat veteran of every war would stand up to them.
Especially those Swift Boat Veterans...
They got complacent...they have been pulling the wool over American's eyes for so long...and been able to use the popular media to spin any story any way they liked....they got cocky..and they cannot grasp the fact the SBVT have done an end run around their propagandist gate keepers...
Inspite of 8 yrs of Bill Clinton lies and other propaganda...some Americans are fed up....and have decided that 'character does count' and Kerry's huge deficiency in that department...disqualifies him from public office...certainly from serving as POTUS...
Kerry and his ilk cast aspirtions on Vietnam vets...causing a many in the nation to look down upon them...
The Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth are redeeming Vietnam Vets by exposing the liars...
and their chief...John Kerry...
It's been a long time coming...but in one respect we can thank John Kerry....if he hadnt run for the presidency on his 'war record'...most would have never known how badly he and his friends damaged Vietnam veterans in American's eyes and that it was ALL LIES....
If you have any love for the truth...The Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth are to be supported
by us financially...
God Bless those Guys....
Powerful stuff.
Unfit for Command [Excerpt] Kerry's testimony to the Fulbright Committee was a carefully orchestrated piece of political theater. Fulbright wanted a presentable,
young Kennedy-esque face to put on the antiwar effort, and Kerry wanted a national forum from which to launch his climb to political celebrity. Ted Kennedy
helped arrange Kerry's testimony with Senator Fulbright at a private fundraising event held at the home of Democratic senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan.
………Once Kerry learned that he would have the chance to give testimony before the committee, he recruited the assistance of Adam Walinsky, a speechwriter
noted for his work with Robert Kennedy. Walinsky drafted the speech and coached Kerry on its delivery. The only image Kerry wanted us to see was a myth: a
young man with a burning passion for the truth, the leader forced to sleep on the ground, the man answering his country's call to be where he was urgently needed,
before a committee of the United States Senate where the senators and America were urgently waiting for his firsthand criticism of the war. He porceeded to level
his charges: [End Excerpt]
These people MUST know that something is wrong but they conciously decide to ignore it and proclaim that the falsehood is the truth and believe it!
The topping on the cake is the fact that Orwell was also right about the people themselves. They would anxiously lap up what the media fed them and not know from one day to the next what the "truth" was yesterday.
I guess that's why we keep repeating history.
Truth be known the domestic policies of both parties suck.
Bush will win on the anybody but Kerry vote.
And many of those may be coming from disaffected conservatives who may have decided to sit this one out but changed their minds due to these ads, and the fact that Kerry is such a dangerous weasel.
There is no conservative candidate running in this election.
There is no conservative majority to elect one.
Touche.
:^)
The next one (#3) will cover Paris, POW torture and Kerry's place in the VN war shrine.
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