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The Dems electoral props are not up to snuff.

As the Vets here said. Those who respect the uniform are NOT going to be interested in the rabidly Hate America dogma of the current Democrat Leadership. Maybe Democrats should try IDEAS and PLANS instead of gimmicks next time.

Did you know John F. Kerry was a Vietnam War hero....

This is alleged to be the handiwork of one Rahm Emanuel.

I think he leaves a slime trail in his wake.

Hmmm...unfortunate double-entendre by Ms. Orin. Perhaps she didn't realize what she was writing.

I'm surprised Tammy Duckworth has turned out to be an 'anti-war' Dim. Saw her on C-Span a few months ago while she was still in re-hab, and she (along with another very inspiring wounded vet) seemed to have her head screwed on straight. Anybody know what the story is here?

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=20&artnum=2&issue=20060330

Weak Defense

Posted 3/30/2006

National Security: Democrats are offering a strategy for keeping Americans safe. Don't laugh. Well, go ahead and laugh, but sober up quickly. If they take over Congress, it will increase our vulnerability to attack.

Democrats, desperate for attention and votes in the fall mid-term elections, are trying to convince America that they can be trusted with security and defense, issues that have long been Republican strengths.

So, after much reflection, they came up this week with their "Real Security" plan that can be distilled into three words: get bin Laden.

Now why didn't the Bush administration think of that?

The Democrats are late to the game. They had their chance to get Osama bin Laden during Bill Clinton's second term in the White House. And they could have done so with little or no bloodshed.

But Clinton — as president, the titular head of the Democratic Party — passed on an opportunity to take custody of bin Laden in 1996, as well as, according to Mansoor Ijaz, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, "detailed intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas."

Writing in the Los Angeles Times in December 2001, Ijaz said the Clinton administration was simply silent on Sudan's offer to hand over bin Laden and intelligence that might have prevented the 9-11 terrorist strike. Twice. The second time came three months before 17 American sailors were killed in the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen and after bin Laden had been implicated in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.

Save for a few exceptions, Democrats haven't been serious about security and defense since John Kennedy was president. Of course, Lyndon Johnson orchestrated the war in Vietnam like he was playing checkers on his back porch; his focus turned more to politics than national defense and security as the conflict grew.

Then there were the four years of Jimmy Carter, who was far too chummy with dictators and indulgent of Soviet belligerence — that Olympic boycott really showed 'em — plus Sandinista nastiness and crazed Iranians who had the nerve to actually attack U.S. soil.

Congressional Democrats haven't been any better. Aside from Sen. Joe Lieberman, can anyone name one current or recent member of Congress who has been believable on defense and security?

Yet here they are, telling the voters they have a plan that, in the words of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, is "tough and smart" and "will provide the real security President Bush has promised but failed to deliver."

The failed delivery, though, is on the part of the Democrats.

The word from the mainstream media, usually reliable Democratic allies, is that this plan lacks details. We agree. It's really nothing more than promising in general terms to do what's already being done by the Bush White House.

And if Democrats find themselves with a congressional majority in 2007 and the White House in 2009, they will actually do less than that.

The LameStream Media won't say it, and elected Republicans won't say it, and Republican candidates won't say it. Few pundits will say it, but those of us at the grass roots can and do say it: Democrat party operatives and activists hate the military and hope for America's defeat in Iraq.