RINOS all.
Posted on 04/29/2007 7:04:54 PM PDT by new yorker 77
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for the Democratic presidential candidates. Just as they're settling into their game plans, one inconvenient truth after another emerges to disrupt them. And that doesn't even include Al Gore's weather forecasts.
Last week was especially nettlesome. It started with GOP front-runner Rudy Giuliani laying down the marker that America would be safer with a Republican President, a surprise attack that put the Dems' Gang of Eight on the defensive. Then in quick succession came former CIA Director George Tenet's warning of likely Al Qaeda attacks in the U.S. and a report that Saudi Arabia had arrested 172 militants who were plotting to blow up oil installations in the desert kingdom.
The cumulative effect was to remind the nation that the war on terror, or whatever it's called these days, is far from over. That reminder served as a warning to the candidates that wooing liberal primary voters with too much peace talk could put the party's nominee at odds with swing voters in next year's general election.
Even attacking President Bush on Iraq offers no political haven. Just as Dems in Congress finally pushed through a unified bill requiring Bush to start bringing the troops home, our commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, was in Washington warning that a pullback would mean even more violence. In response to some Democrats who say Iraq is so bad our actions don't matter much, Petraeus laid down his own marker: "It can get much, much worse," he said.
Sen. Hillary Clinton expressed the squeeze she was feeling, saying, "we don't want Democrats being blamed for our troops not being well-equipped" even though they want them home.
Campaigns, of course, are never smooth and easy. Surprises don't come only in October. An event can come out of nowhere and instantly change the dynamics, making a mess out of assumptions and strategies. The position that looked smart Monday can create a new vulnerability Tuesday.
For Democrats, nothing has the power to disrupt politics like terrorism. The belief that Bush was better at fighting it cost John Kerry the election he should have won in 2004. Although public disgust with Bush's handling of Iraq won Dems both houses of Congress last year, the ability of genuine threats of terrorism to create a new sense of insecurity among voters remains just a headline away.
The subject even caused a stir in the sober first debate on Thursday. Moderator Brian Williams' surprising question about a hypothetical attack on two U.S. cities forced the candidates to snap out of their bring-the-troops-home, Bush-bashing party and play commander in chief. Given how anti-war activists are pulling the party leftward, the question seemed to catch nearly all the candidates off guard at first. Sen. Barack Obama recovered to issue a strong rebuke to the peaceniks on the stage, but it's clearly not a big subject in any of their campaign playbooks.
But reality has a way of intruding. Coincidentally, Tenet, in a new book devoted mostly to trying to resurrect his reputation and trash Vice President Cheney's, also raises the possibility of new attacks. He writes that he is puzzled that Al Qaeda has not unleashed "suicide bombers to cause chaos in a half-dozen American shopping malls on any given day."
He goes on: "I do know of one thing in my gut. Al Qaeda is here and waiting."
And now Democrats know it, too. Whatever else happens, they can't say they weren't warned.
mgoodwin@nydailynews.com
They are also faced with the reality that no matter how many people lie about Iraq being a failure, most Americans will never reward terrorists by agreeing that our troops are failures in Iraq, because they are not.
Terrorism is our reality and GOP cowards who agree with the lies of Democrats and terrorists on Iraq will not save them.
GOP cowards who hate our troops and want to stab them in the back by agreeing to leave Iraq based on the lie that it is a failure are insignificant in number.
The surrender/Pro-terrorist talk was not part of the conversation before Election 2006.
Most Americans will stand with our troops for victory in Iraq and in the War on Terror.
The Iraq veterans I speak to are disipointed that many Americans, including some Republicans, continue to lie about Iraq being a failure.
My neighbor, who served two tours in Iraq, said to me the other day, "Do they know that when they call Iraq a failure, for one, they are lying, second they are calling us failures, and third, they sound like the terrorists?
Interesting that this appears in the Daily News, which is generally pro-Democrat and pro-hillary.
Got any names?
Reality really bites doesn't it?
GOP cowards who hate our troops and want to stab them in the back...
Got any names?
HAGEL! my own senator...
The reason Al Queda isn’t uleashing suicide bombers here is the same reason Japan only tried disultry attacks on the US mainland. They’d already stirred up a hornets nest and the amount of damage they could do paled beside the prospect of a citizenry aroused even more.
The Japanese did try to send balloons that would start a pandemic, but that effort failed. One wonders how many Al Queda balloons have been sent this way that failed or were caught.
RINOS all.
I think you nailed it. Besides, with the Democrats win, the odds look even better for Al-Queda. I expect to see major problems if the Democrats get the Prersidency and control both houses.
Sorry. The Distinguished Senior Senator from the great State of Nebraska, His Exalted Eminence Charles Timothy “Chuck” Hagel, defected to the Democrat camp but as the worst Senator lacks the intelligence and the sanity to recognize his true newfound partisan affiliation.
“GOP cowards who hate our troop....”
I am disgusted with the behavior of most of those on the Hill regardless of party, however I do not believe that anyone “hates” our troops, especially those in the GOP. As a veteran both of the military and weekly support the troops rallies, I can see that there are those that don’t understand the consequences of their actions such as Reid, Pelosi, MoveOn.org, International ANSWER, etc.
It would indeed be nice if the GOP would stand up to the Dems. It would be if the Dems didn’t lie, slander, and stab America, not just her troops, in every way possible. And better yet, if the American public didn’t buy into the Democrat & Leftist agenda. But then that would mean that more people would have to learn to critically think, and then get off their duffs and into the street to make a stand. The Lefties find time, why not us?
If that ain't hate...
Coincidentally, Tenet, in a new book devoted mostly to trying to resurrect his reputation and trash Vice President Cheney’s,
George Tenet’s Imaginary Encounter... With Richard Perle.
The Weekly Standard ^ | 4/29/07 | William Kristol
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“however I do not believe that anyone ‘hates’ our troops.”
Sorry for the late reply, Freep Friend, but you have been huffing glue if you don’t believe for a second that the serpent-head of liberalism, despises everything that the American military represents. I would argue the only thing they hate more than the military, is a mirror.
That picture is disgusting and at the same time typical of the Left. It is too bad that more people don’t get to see pictures like this. Perhaps it would motivate them to get off their duffs and stand up for our troops, and America!
The people carrying that sign and attending the protest ARE NOT Republicans.
““however I do not believe that anyone ‘hates’ our troops.”
“Sorry for the late reply, Freep Friend, but you have been huffing glue if you don’t believe for a second that the serpent-head of liberalism, despises everything that the American military represents. I would argue the only thing they hate more than the military, is a mirror.”
It’s okay. Nope, haven’t been huffing anything, let alone dead horses. My response regarded elected officials from the Left, and you are talking about the non-elected officials. Speech that is couched in generalities, as I was engaging in, has built-in exceptions. California has a few of those hard core Lefties that dispise the military, such as Rep. Woolsey. I have seen these Lefties up close when I counter their protests...every week. I have been called a “Nazi”, “facist”, “racist”, etc on more than one occasion. It is especially horrid when one is trying to sing the National Anthem or “God Bless America”.
Take care!
I was answering what you said about “I do not believe that anyone ‘hates’ our troops”. I was just pointing out that there are plenty of people in this country that hate our troops. I never said they were RINOs.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“got any names...”
Chuch Hagel, and those 2 turncoats in the House from NC and MD who voted for the 124 billion to cry defeat which Bush VETOED!
Thanks for the clarification. We agree.
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