Antiwar Wackadoos Are Winning

Los Angeles Times ^ | August 11, 2006

[Vision]

These columnists live in their own minds. They're heroes there.

[cripplecreek]

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.

[badpacifist]

Antiwar Wackadoos Are Winning

Oh really? See you in November.

[callthemlikeyouseethem]

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."

[hflynn]

I hope the LA Times has reporters covering Sen. Joe Lieberman's victory speech and Ned Lamont's concession speech in November.

[fanfan]

Very good tag line.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Antiwar Wackadoos Are Winning Whinning

Now the title is correct. ;-)

[divine_moment_of_facts]

The Liberals are like Hebollah... While no one was watching.. They built up their Weapons (MSM propaganda, ACLU, NAACP, NOW, etc.).. They infiltrated those who sympathize with them (the Democrat party)... They deny their true agenda (socialism/Communism).

[PROTESTBYPROXY]

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!

[MarkL]

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.

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

[divine_moment_of_facts]

So true... They are Busted in more ways than one.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

What happened was just that the whole democracy thing worked just the way it's supposed to, for once. A majority of citizens oppose the war in Iraq, so they went to the polls and voted for the guy who shares their views, instead of the guy who doesn't.

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.

[Dominic Harr]

Opposing the war in Iraq isn't fringe anymore — it's become part of what defines ordinary Americans.

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.

[cripplecreek]

In the case of primary elections, a small percentage of the voters vote for the guy who shares their view

[bybybill]

Your post was right bon the mark. My question is why the antiwar fools are never held accountable? Do the ever feel any responsibility for their actions? And, it`s not like they don`t know, because, since Vietnam, our enemies have announced that their strategy was to prolong the conflict till we gave up and went home.

[DakotaRed]

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

[Darnright]

>Antiwar Wackadoos Are Winning<

Whew, for a moment there, I thought Georgia voters tossed her out.

[BonnieJ]

The media has tried to show them as winning all along, with exaggerated numbers and distorted reporting.

[A. Pole]

Past elections were won by a small margin. What keeps Republicans in power is a strange infatuation of Democrats with "gay marriage", abortion, stem cells research, Celebration of Diversity in public schools, suppression of religion in public sphere etc etc.

The New Deal style Democrats with some traditional moral values would win one landslide after another as they used to in the past.