Posted on 11/05/2004 10:44:33 AM PST by CitadelArmyJag
Mr. Krugman, In response to your most recent article, “No Surrender,” which was delightfully dripping with anger. Aside from the fact that it was completely ridiculous, I found your rant horrendously entertaining and disgusting, which prompted me to offer you the thoughts of a young conservative Army officer. You can try to convince yourself and others that the President's victory was one begotten only through vestige sentiments of 9/11 and through the meddlesome intervention of the “religious right,” but this fails to explain the losses that your party has incurred in every election for over a decade now. With the exception of the anomalous Clinton Presidency, which never received the percentage of the vote that Bush just did, your party has not held the executive office since 1980. Come 2008, you will have been out of the office of the presidency for twenty of the last twenty-eight years. Things have been equally bleak for you in the Congress, as you have lost seats and remained a minority in the House for over a decade now. In the Senate, your numbers continue to diminish, with your very leader being ousted this past week. Yet still, you claim “No Surrender!” The ridiculousness of this statement, cried out by you effeminate peaceniks and perpetual capitulators, is only fully revealed when juxtaposed to the unremitting resolve of our President and Armed Forces. I understand that you are jealous and feel alienated from a country that shares neither your liberal agenda nor your twisted moral relativism. Allow me to try to explain it to you. Firstly, your Party is one surrounded by scandal and controversy, and this is no fluke. The Democratic Party suffers from a lack of moral absolutes and the traditional, AMERICAN values that this country holds dear. You have lost the ear of the everyday people, as you no longer have leaders like FDR, Truman, or Kennedy, but have only a party of radical, secular, and socialist fanatics. These fanatics are typified by negative, lying propagandists like Michael Moore and the criminals like Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Jim Traficant, Al Sharpton, Clinton, McGreevy, etc, etc. These “leaders” no longer provide leadership in this country, but issue only “a long litany of complaints.” There are no solutions offered to these complaints, which are then spuriously propagated by media hacks such as yourself. Your party panders to the errant sense of entitlement held by the weakest parts of our society. You are fear mongers, race baters, and poverty pimps, who offer not true leadership, but only fear and dependency. The left tries to divide this country and promulgate the perception of “two Americas.” This a approach at governance is derived not from the Constitution, but from the Communist Manifesto, where talk of optimistic opportunity and personal responsibility is replaced with inflammatory comments directed towards inciting warfare between the classes. Again, as you may gather from the last election, it is not working. But don't surrender yet, as there is more… The scandals and controversies of your party disgust the American people, as they reveal the true core of the Democratic leadership. I am not saying it is not inspirational. The only problem is that it inspires the wrong people. The left has been propping up the enemies of this nation since Vietnam, and has found aid in comfort in your disloyal rants against everything America. Do you ever wonder why Yassar Arafat might have endorsed Kerry? Why Osama Bin Laden so HATES Bush? Do you wonder why eight of the nineteen September 11th hijackers were registered –by A.C.O.R.N. incidentally- democrats? Tell me Krugy, Why do the French love you so? Zell Miller knows! It is because the Democratic Party is “A National Party No More,” having come to prefer a more European, secular and socialist society. Now take a breath Krugster, I am not saying that the entire Democratic Party is comprised of Islamic terrorists. After all, you are a BIG TENT party, with other pseudo-terrorists groups like E.L.F, and P.E.T.A., N.O.W., and N.A.R.A.L. However, the Big Tent party doesn’t stop there… lets not forget the diverse thought pool of liberal academia and the old media, whose disloyalty is only equaled by their pretension and arrogance –another important tenet of liberalism. Newsweek just reported Kerry to have said during his campaign, “I can’t believe that I am losing to this idiot.” IF your leaders aren’t [war] criminals or charlatans –and Kerry was both-, they most certainly are elitist snobs who radiate condescension and self-importance to all who have the misfortune of encountering them. Thus, the American people have done their best to limit their encounters with you by canceling their subscriptions to your liberal rags and by changing the channel. The old media no longer provides your party with the privilege of a filter rose tinted filter, through which your party is propagandized, and conversely, conservatives are vilified. You whine and exclaim, “Propaganda?!?" Oh now, these things happen… Look at Abu Gharib”… Doesn’t anybody care?” The answer is a resounding NO! You must find yourself desperate to understand why the American people didn’t “hold Bush and his cronies accountable” in the last election, if not for the controversies you created, than for their sheer simplicity and inferiority. My answer to you, which you undoubtedly won’t believe or understand, is that the American people sees the contrived attacks made by your leftist papers and networks as just that, contrived attacks. They trust George W. Bush, and believe in the right to protect ourselves without having passed some arbitrary “global test,” and share his belief that marriage is something sacred and worth protecting. I will let you in on a little secret, in mainstream America religious faith and conviction isn’t viewed as pedestrian, and protecting ourselves from terrorism isn’t viewed as a “war crime.” You can say it wasn’t a landslide, but Bush won over 40% of the vote in 47 states. Kerry won over 40% of the vote in 13 states. Bush received more votes than any other President has ever received, and won the popular vote by nearly four million votes. This is something that your beloved Clinton never did, and it’s the first mandate since Bush Sr. beat another out of touch liberal from Massachusetts back in 1988. Your incomprehension of these things is neither unexpected nor unwelcome, as you our party will continue to grow as the Democratic Party continues to separate itself from the majority of the American people. This trend will continue until your party finds a soul again, and in consideration of your own vow to offer “No Surrender,” it doesn’t appear that this epiphany will occur any time soon.
If history instructs us on anything regarding the well worn path lib/socialists will take as they realize reliance upon the ballot box does not successfully lead to their goals, will increasingly turn other means. It will take various forms - open to speculation. Secret societies, cabals,...whatever holds forth the promise of being able to force their will on the masses.
Yeah. the demos are down the tube. They lost their last hope when they gave up Jim Traficant !!
Yeah we have some English majors on board fer sure.
The content is what counts with most of us though.
WELL SAID!
bttt
Sir, a great job! I was so furious at Krugman's article today, thinking that no one would rebut. Well, you were outstanding! Thank you for your service and God Bless!
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