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FIGURATIVE DROOL
- Mia T , 11-05-02
Perhaps Mondale didn't drool, literally, but the stuff that spewed forth--non sequiturs, petitio principii, imagined laurels, ideological black holes, time warps, warped priorities-- was drivel nonetheless. It was downright scary...and it was an automatic disqualifier...or, at least, in a rational world it would be. Nothing illustrated Mondale's dangerous lack of grasp better than his failure to understand this fundamental truth: protecting the American people from the terrorists trumps protecting labor union collective bargaining. Notwithstanding Wellstone, Walter Mondale is not the accidental candidate. Rather he, and Frank Lautenberg further south and east, are the paradigmatic candidate: they are the precise incarnation of Democrat obsolescence. Mondale-Lautenberg is the last gasp of a party unfit to lead, especially in a post-9/11 world. 
It is obvious to anyone who bothers to remove his political blinders. It is so patently obvious that even those whose political blinders are a permanently fixed fashion statement -- that is to say, even Hollywood -- can see it. (Just ask Whoopie Goldberg...or Rosie O'Donnell...) Bush's poll numbers are a reflection of this self-evident truth. What is manifestly obvious and confirmed on a daily basis is the plain fact that Democrats are, by definition, constitutionally unfit to navigate the ship of state through these troubled, terrorist waters. Democrats were unfit pre-9/11, but few could see it then. It was 9/11 and its aftermath that made this truth crystal clear even to the most simpleminded among us. The unwashed masses, the uninformed, the disinformed can see it now. All America can see it now. Self-preservation is kicking in, trumping petty politics at every turn. (That pesky fundamental truth, again.) And this is why Democrat demagoguery and stupidity and sedition are achieving new lows... We are witnessing the last gasp of a political relic. The Democrat party is not merely obsolete. As 9/11 and clinton-clinton-Daschle action and inaction and the Mondale and Lautenberg candidacies have demonstrated, the Democrat party is very dangerous. Today we can still make a difference. Let's roll! |
