Whew, for a moment there, I thought Georgia voters tossed her out.
Posted on 08/12/2006 8:22:50 AM PDT by A. Pole
WHAT DO YOU have to do to get a little peace and quiet around here? It used to be possible to adopt an antiwar platform and be left entirely alone by most mainstream Americans. Sure, you'd be sneered at by the media, ostracized by the major political parties and, from time to time, your in-laws would accuse you of living on the radical fringe.
But at least it was quiet out there on the fringe.
That's the whole point of fringes, right? They're not supposed to be too populated. The antiwar fringe used to be sort of like the frontier: nothing but virgin territory, big sky and social misfits. Yep, in those days, you could stand on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and shout, "Hey, the whole war in Iraq thing, it's a huge mistake!" And no matter how loud you were shouting, it would be a big empty space all around you as senators and representatives scurried to avoid antiwar contamination.
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Today, the antiwar fringe is starting to resemble California during the Gold Rush of 1849. When gold was discovered in 1848, California had a nonnative population of 14,000 and technically belonged to Mexico. By the end of 1849, the lure of gold had brought the nonnative population up to a boisterous 100,000 — and California had been formally absorbed into the United States.
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The antiwar crowd is accomplishing the same thing they've always accomplished. They're ending exactly zero wars and extending all wars and getting more people killed than any decisive victory ever could.
Oh really? See you in November.
First thing we do is stop calling them wackadoos... they are sympathizers, if not the enemy themselves...
President Bush, Aug 12, 2006: "I ask for your patience, cooperation, and vigilance in the coming days."
I hope the LA Times has reporters covering Sen. Joe Lieberman's victory speech and Ned Lamont's concession speech in November.
Very good tag line.
Now the title is correct. ;-)
It is time to push them out of the way. Dems are going to get us killed! Iran is just waiting for them to come to power, Dems put the mullahs in power. Carter is the original idiot!
Huh???!!!???
"Sneered at by the media?" What planet is this guy from? Since the early 1970s, "the media" have been incredible supporters of the "peace movement," as long as the war being fought is in the interest of the US. Interestingly enough, they don't seem to mind the US fighting wars that aren't in the national interest...
But even during dem administrations, the media has been at least mildly "anti-war." Of course, as soon as you get to a republican administration, the caterwalling of the media against the wars have been deafening!
Mark
So true... They are Busted in more ways than one.
Um... no. A majority of the Democrats who went to the polls voted for the guy who shares their views. That doesn't mean a majority of citizens, as a whole, agree with him.
You'd think they'd wait till they wone just *one* single election, before crowing. Wouldn'tcha?
Winning a party primary. Big whoop. Dukakis won a bunch of them!
I've got my eye on this election cycle. If they win in just one single general election, I may change my opinion of them. But for now, they still are "the fringe".
Just like, and let's face it, we here on FR are 'the fringe'. Typically, a FReeper is politically active, tech-savy, educated beyond the average, and enjoys spirited debate on the issues.
All of which allows us to use this fabulous tool FR to magnify our voices to a scream.
In the case of primary elections, a small percentage of the voters vote for the guy who shares their view
I, for one, eagerly look forward to November when the anti-war whackos will discover they are just a figment of their own imaginations.
All pacifism has ever accomplished is more deaths and longer wars.
Kumbaya does not translate well into the language of terrorists
Whew, for a moment there, I thought Georgia voters tossed her out.
The media has tried to show them as winning all along, with exaggerated numbers and distorted reporting.
The New Deal style Democrats with some traditional moral values would win one landslide after another as they used to in the past.
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