[Tolik]

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[paudio]

I like to think that the 'exceptionalism' may be applied to the Western Europe. They're the only one that become secular and leaves all cultural heritage behind them... Perhaps because they're the earliest one that experienced modernity. Others, such as America, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and so on, can embrace modernity while at the same time maintain their religiosity.

[Angry Enough]

Another dead hit. Go, Victor.

[Tax-chick]

later

[Max Combined]

Right on!

[G.Mason]

"Now is not the time for the Democrats to harp about "a divided county," but to ensure that next time Hollywood, MoveOn.org, rock stars, and billionaire currency speculators do not headline their campaign, though venom and money they may bring.

Perhaps someone in the Democratic party will tally up a Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry and conclude that there is a pattern here that leads to political suicide."

With some respect to Victor Hanson, even I was not that naive in grade school.

May the "Dimocrat dinosaur" continue it's slide into the tar pits of obscurity.

[Mia T]

absolutely brilliant

ping

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES
(the self-anointed 'intelligentsia' and 'intelligence' are mutually exclusive constructs)

[CaraM]

Excellent Summation. This is a keeper.

[OXENinFLA]

"Their differences were the stuff of legalistic nit-pickers who might have equally parsed Mussolini's fascism from Hitler's Nazism or claimed that Mao's Marxism so differed from Stalin's Communism that the two could never have teamed up in Korea with yet a third wild-card totalitarian."

[gobucks]

Now is not the time for the Democrats to harp about "a divided county," but to ensure that next time Hollywood, MoveOn.org, rock stars, and billionaire currency speculators do not headline their campaign, though venom and money they may bring.

Please, let's limit the advice to the enemy, Ok? The bottom line is the dems threw an incredible amount of money in the RIGHT direction. It was PERFECTLY spent. We need to cheer them on to CONTINUE to do just this, not discourage them.

For pete's sake, doesn't anyone remember Operation Fortitude?

[goldstategop]

Kudos to Victor Davis Hanson! The American people know true intelligence when they see it and it doesn't come from the mushy, addle-minded nonsense of the professoriate and Michael Moore Hate America wackos. Americans do not like being lectured to and told they can't do things right or their beliefs are wrong. Our approach is very much correct and will make the world a better place. Its matters not if the UN, the Eurotrash, Arab dictators and terrorists and America's liberal cognoscenti join up in arms against it. No country on Earth has embraced more fervently the idea that freedom is God's gift to humanity than America. And that is why this country is the last best hope of reason, peace, goodwill and justice on Earth.

[The Great Yazoo]

Two multimillionaire lawyers from the East Coast were not populists in the manner of a Richard Gephardt, and it was the epitome of arrogance to pretend that they were.

Kerry probably lost the election the day he chose Edwards as his veep as opposed to Dick Gephardt. Gephardt probably would have carried Missouri and may have made a difference in Ohio. Edwards really helped nowhere.

Kerry probably feared Gephardt, because Gephardt's private sector labor union political base makes him somewhat independent of the effete northeastern liberal establishment and its lapdogs, the mainstreet media.

[PhilipFreneau]

This is by far the best analysis I have read on the election.

[CaptRon]

America saw the election-eve face of bin Laden, heard his pathetic rant — and shrugged that he, not it, was going down.

I love this line.

[xkaydet65]

A direct hit by one of the two most important writers in America. The other being Colonel Ralph Peters Army of the US(ret.). Between these two men they have done more to support the president and our nation in its continuing struggle than any pundits or scribes.

[King Prout]

brilliant and concise, as ever.
thanks for the ping

[RottiBiz]

Thanks, Tolik -- an exceptional read.

It definitely made my day.

[tet68]

"...so confident was he in the exceptionalism of America..."

VDH has it right here, it's perhaps not so much that we
believed in George W. as much as he believed in US!

As JFK (the real one) once said, ...to do the hard things,
to make the hard choices, to do what's right. (not exact
quote.)

These things make America great, and worthy of a leader
like GWB, who must strive to live up to our expectations
as we must strive to live up to his.

This is something the opposition could not and cannot do,
because they are eliteist in nature and feel that
the nation cannot possibly live up to their standards,
and for that reason governance should be best left
to them, there is no spur to them to live up to the
values and expectations of the nation, it's all beneath
them.

Because of this contempt, they cannot rise above themselves
and expand to deliver greatness, they are not called upon
to give that 110%, the maximum effort that has to be brought
up from some where between the gut and the heart.

Zell knows this and he knows what it's called, Esprit d' Corps.

They don't have it, it's all about them, there's nothing
bigger or more important. Oh they'll tell you it's having
a social conscience etc,etc, but only if THEY are the ones
doing it.

t68.

[najida]

Good read!