THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A VAST SLEEPER CELL(Ann Coulter)

anncoulter.com ^ | January 3, 2007 | Ann Coulter

[kellynla]

Fortunately for liberals, the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein the exact same week that former President Ford died, so it didn't seem strange that Nancy Pelosi's flag was at half-staff. Also, Saddam's death made it less of a snub when Harry Reid skipped Ford's funeral.

The passing of Gerald Ford should remind Americans that Democrats are always lying in wait, ready to force a humiliating defeat on America.

More troops, fewer troops, different troops, "redeployment" — all the Democrats' peculiar little talking points are just a way of sounding busy. Who are they kidding? Democrats want to cut and run as fast as possible from Iraq, betraying the Iraqis who supported us and rewarding our enemies — exactly as they did to the South Vietnamese under Ford.

Liberals spent the Vietnam War rooting for the enemy and clamoring for America's defeat, a tradition they have brought back for the Iraq war.

They insisted on calling the Soviet-backed Vietcong "the National Liberation Front of Vietnam," just as they call Islamic fascists killing Americans in Iraq "insurgents." Ho Chi Minh was hailed as a "Jeffersonian Democrat," just as Michael Moore compares the Islamic fascists in Iraq to the Minute Men.

During the Vietnam War, New York Times scion Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger told his father that if an American soldier ran into a North Vietnamese soldier, he would prefer for the American to get shot. "It's the other guy's country," he explained.

Now, as publisher of the Times, Pinch does all he can to help the enemy currently shooting at American soldiers.

After a half-dozen years of Democrat presidents creating a looming disaster in Vietnam — with Kennedy ordering the assassination of our own ally in the middle of the war and Johnson ham-handedly choosing bombing targets from the Oval Office — in 1969, Nixon became president and the world was safe again.

Nixon began a phased withdrawal of American ground troops, while protecting the South Vietnamese by increasing the bombings of the North, mining North Vietnamese harbors and attacking North Vietnamese military supplies in Cambodia — all actions hysterically denounced by American liberals, eager for the communists to defeat America.

Despite the massive anti-war protests staged by the Worst Generation, their takeovers of university buildings and their bombings of federal property to protest the bombing of North Vietnamese property, Nixon's Vietnam policy was apparently popular with normal Americans. In 1972, he won re-election against "peace" candidate George McGovern in a 49-state landslide.

In January 1973, the United States signed the Paris Peace accords, which would have ended the war with honor. In order to achieve a ceasefire, Nixon jammed lousy terms down South Vietnam's throat, such as allowing Vietcong troops to remain in the South. But in return, we promised South Vietnam that we would resume bombing missions and provide military aid if the North attacked.

It would have worked, but the Democrats were desperate for America to lose. They invented "Watergate," the corpus delicti of which wouldn't have merited three column-inches during the Clinton years, and hounded Nixon out of office. (How's Sandy Berger weathering that tough wrist-slap?)

Three months after Nixon was gone, we got the Watergate Congress and with it, the new Democratic Party. In lieu of the old Democratic Party, which lost wars out of incompetence and naivete, the new Democratic Party would lose wars on purpose.

Just one month after the Watergate Congress was elected, North Vietnam attacked the South.

Even milquetoast, pro-abortion, detente-loving Gerald R. Ford knew America had to defend South Vietnam or America's word would be worth nothing. As Ford said, "American unwillingness to provide adequate assistance to allies fighting for their lives could seriously affect our credibility throughout the world as an ally." He pleaded repeatedly with the Democratic Congress simply to authorize aid to South Vietnam — no troops, just money.

But the Democrats turned their backs on South Vietnam, betrayed an ally and trashed America's word. Within a month of Ford's last appeal to Congress to help South Vietnam, Saigon fell.

The entire world watched as American personnel desperately scrambled into helicopters from embassy rooftops in Saigon while beating back our own allies, to whom we could offer no means of escape. It was the most demeaning image of America ever witnessed, until Britney Spears came along.

Southeast Asia was promptly consumed in a maelstrom of violence that seems to occur whenever these "Jeffersonian Democrats" come to power. Communist totalitarians swept through Laos, Cambodia and all of Vietnam. They staged gruesome massacres so vast that none other than Sen. George McGovern called for military intervention to stop a "clear case of genocide" in Cambodia.

Five years after that, Islamic lunatics in Iran felt no compunction about storming the embassy of what was once the greatest superpower on Earth and taking American citizens hostage for 14 months. To this day, al-Qaida boosts the flagging morale of its jihadists by reminding them of America's humiliating retreat from Vietnam.

In addition to being wrong about Ford's pardon of Nixon, liberals were wrong about a few other things from that era. Democrats haven't admitted error in rejecting Ford's pleas on behalf of South Vietnam because there are still dangerous foreigners trying to kill Americans. Nixon is safely interred in the ground, but the enemies of America continue to need the Democrats' help.

[RonDog]

I can't help but wonder if Ann has a viable security detail.

After writing things like this, she may very well need one.

From Happy Birthday Ann Coulter, December 8 - 2006 edition:

-- snip --

LENO: Now, do you travel, like, with a bodyguard now?

Do you find --

COULTER: Well, I travel with conservative men.

They're -- they're pretty fearsome.

Unlike the liberals you showed the last time I was on when I spoke on a college campus. We got the nuanced liberals throwing food, and they missed.

Yeah, unlike them, I think my male friends can take 'em.

-- snip --

...which inspired FReeper TexasBeth was inspired to create THIS masterpiece:

[John David Stutts]

Fortunately for liberals, the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein the exact same week that former President Ford died, so it didn't seem strange that Nancy Pelosi's flag was at half-staff.

Stingingly funny.

[AZLiberty]

"Party hearty" is her motto these days. That picture is from New Year's Eve, shortly before she collapsed and had to be carried out.

[davisfh]

Well done, RonDog. I wasn't aware that this exchange had taken place between Ann and Leno. Leno should be ashamed of himself, but that should be a shame of longstanding.

[jellybean]

Three months after Nixon was gone, we got the Watergate Congress and with it, the new Democratic Party. In lieu of the old Democratic Party, which lost wars out of incompetence and naivete, the new Democratic Party would lose wars on purpose.

Thanks for the ping, knewsy!

Let me know if you'd like to be added to the Ann Coulter ping list.

[Lancey Howard]

You mean 4 days ago??

[The Westerner]

Ford was a sincere man. Not a phony. I lived through those days when he pardoned Nixon. It was the right decision for this nation, in the same way the Founding Fathers made the decision not to outlaw slavery in the new Union: for fear that the Union would break apart. It's a contextual issue. If you watched Ford in the many interviews aired this week, you will see a man who was well-meaning and who loved this country as much as he loved his life.

[vigilante2]

One of the young guys at work asked me today why the flag was at half-staff

I replied didn't you hear saddam hussein died? >sarc<

He dropped his jaw and looked at me cockeyed as if I was serious

[arthurus]

Pretty active for a sleeper cell.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

"They invented "Watergate,"...
Now, there's a stretch, even from Miz Kolter."

When you start a rumor that Fidel Castro had sent money to the rats, that starts the invention.

What do you mean by your tag line?
Are you a rat?

[7thson]

I always felt that - concerning Watergate - the major thing Nixon was guilty of was loyalty. What if - famous last words - after the burglary became known - he got on national television and fired all involved instead of trying to protect them? Could his Presidency have survived? Also, not too many people are commenting on how Ford got to be VP in the first place - because the press already wonded the Presidency with the exposure of Agnew's dealing's while Governor of Maryland. Blood was already in the water and the press/liberals wanted more. I think what happened in 74 is basically what happened in 2006 - the public was exposed 24/7 with nothing but Republican corruption - real or imagined - and without thinking too much on it, voted in a bunch of socialists.

Oh yeah - for those demanding pictures -

[7thson]

One of the few things I respected about Ford was he did best what all ex-Presidents should do - play golf and keep his mouth shut. Then, after his death, we get the taped recording of his interview with Woodward. And being such a manly man, with b***s and a spine - he instructs Woodward not to release what he said until after he died. What a braveheart! Yeah, that's sarcasm. Another Rockefeller Republican!

[alloysteel]

The frightening part of all this is that the Dem'crats would CHEERFULLY either convert to Islam or submit to dhimmitude, rather than support the Bush Administration on any aspect of preserving the free trade of energy across the world.

A secret second agenda is at work here. By making energy scarce (and therefore expensive), the Greenie objective of terminating all this rapid technological progress throughout the world will be halted, or at least slowed. This will have no overall effect beyond artificially handicapping the North Atlantic countries, while allowing eastern Asia to catch up or even proceed into world leadership, thus supplanting the US-British alliance for good and all.

Some days every hand is against you.

[harrowup]

What do you mean by your tag line?

The Republicans have never known how to run Congress and when they screwed up this time by also being disloyal to their President, they justifiably lost the trust of the voters.

Are you a rat?

I am a Democrat who believes in aggressive defense and loyalty.

[danboski]

http://www.therightbrothers.com/index2.php

[auto power]

That sure doesn't look like Britney....look at the nose...Britney has a nose that looks like it's been broken.

[Rummyfan]

Turned out, he was a captain of a ship in the South Vietnamese Navy.

One of my coworkers is also a vet of the South Vietnamese Navy. He got out in the general evacuation with his wife (a couple of his siblings spent years in the re-education camps), first to Guam and then the continental US, from there to working on an apple farm in New York state, to ditch-digging in Pennsylvania, and then decided he needed to go back to school. He got an engineering degree and things got a lot better. His children are all very successful and he is too. But yes it was shameful how we turned our back on South Vietnam (BTW he went back to visit for the first time in thirty years last summer).

[ExTexasRedhead]

Saddam and America's Liberal Democrats are one in the same. Both are enemies of America.

[rlmorel]

Respect. Tough life, and tough experiences. Makes me grateful for certain.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

I always felt that - concerning Watergate - the major thing Nixon was guilty of was loyalty.

You're right. Nixon was basically an honorable man. He was a tough politician but basically honorable. That was his achilles heal. A lessor man. e.g. Clinton, would have thrown Liddy's plumbers under the bus.

He was head and shoulders above the Clintons and Kerrys of the world.