Panic Time: Carrier landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln (E-Mail Editorial)

"Frantic" barely describes the mindset of the lefties these days. With the sprint phase of Election 2004 scarcely a year away, and with a collection of potential presidential candidates 'mongst the Democrats that any zoo keeper would be proud to have in his ape house, politicos and pundits alike are beating old themes like filthy carpets as they try to regain the approval of an electorate/readership that is abandoning them in droves. There is one new tactic, though - that of trying to make scandal out of glory. Take the prez's recent carrier landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln, f'rinstance:

West Virginia senator (small 's') Richard Byrd about went nuts over the incident. T'was a horrible waste of taxpayer dollars, said he, without so much as offering up even a weak apology for the years of fiscal violations by this former Grand Salamander (or whatever slithery title he held in the KKK). The man is known even by extraterrestrials as the biggest pork pig in US Senate history. Is this fool with the irritating drawl serious? Scarcely a bill passes Congress that doesn't have Byrd's sticky fingerprints and an extra billion or two written in fine print at the bottom of the last page. If Poor Richard is so damned concerned about the public pocketbook, he has a funny way of showing it. The money he's responsible for wasting would not only pay for GW's plane ride, it'd buy the plane, the carrier, and pay for several more wars. It's almost like having Ted Kennedy sit on a panel to judge someone else's moral fiber...wait; that's already happened.

Well, the Bush carrier landing fracas wasn't really as much an issue as it was a wobbly bandwagon to jump on anyway. Lord only knows that if Silly Willy had been able to tear himself away from those steamy sessions in the Oval Office - and if he hadn't feared being ejected into the sea by some right-thinking Navy pilot - he might have conjured up the intestinal fortitude to have done the same thing in an effort to polish his image. And the lefty press would have applauded the stunt wildly, like one of those orchestrated Baghdad love fests for humanity's pal Saddam. But it would have required that our former Philanderer in Chief possess the brains to recognize global dangers and the guts to do something about them before that "photo-op" would have meant anything.

He didn't, and neither do those in politics and media who are incapable of abandoning their roles as derision artists, even in the face of the obvious: this is the first actual president we've had in a while. Filled with bitterness over the fact that most of the public have figured them out, and filled with angst over what probably lies ahead if they can't find something - ANYTHING - that will turn the tide by November '04, they run in circles grasping at fluff. The result?

Oh my God - the president visited the gallant to thank them for their sacrifice and valor, a much more heinous thing than, say, Hillary Clinton blowing off a meeting with Gold Star Mothers, who've lost children in the defense of Queen Hillary's country and way of life.

I did sort of think I'd heard the last of this moronic theme with an article entitled "Military imagery rings hollow", by DeWayne Wickham of the Gannett News "Service", some eight or ten days ago. DeWayne didn't think Bush had earned the right to do that landing thing - which he saw as bravado - because Bush "dodged" Vietnam by enlisting in the National Guard.

(Aside to DeWayne: I don't know what your military experience is, or what you actually know about my generation's war, but nobody of that time "dodged" Vietnam by enlisting. Plenty of Guardsmen of my acquaintance ended up there. The "dodgers" ended up in Canada.)

Given DeWayne's obvious lefty slant, I can well imagine that he counted himself among those who loudly spouted that military experience wasn't necessary at all to be president during the campaign for the Dodger in Chief in '92, who even went so far as to put his disdain for things military in writing and send it to his draft board. If I'm accurate in this assessment of DeWayne, it would pretty much disqualify him from even having an opinion about Bush's appearance on the Abe.

But, like I said, I thought that was going to be the last of it when, wouldn't you just know it, good ol' Joel Connelly of the Seattle P-I still thought the mud was fresh enough to fling - so he flung it. Then he picked up another gob and took aim. You see, Everett Community College, of his and my former locale, has decided to no longer give tuition breaks to veterans, and it's all Bush's fault. While the prez was zooming out to make nice with our heroes, he was secretly contriving to pull their futures out from under them, at least according to Joel.

There are only a couple of problems with Joel's charge. First, it isn't happening here in Kentucky. If this were a Bushian plot, wouldn't it be a nationwide plot? Does this downsizing of benefits at Everett CC mean Bush has something against that particular institution of higher learning?

Everett Community College isn't run by the federal Department of Education. It's run by the State of Washington, one of the most fiscally corrupt entities in the country. A shell game has been played with people's money there for decades. No one can identify where the money goes anymore. All that's certain is that the Entity continually wants more of it, and it will trample voter-passed laws to get it. Bush's fault?

Well, logic isn't a strong point where articles by Joel are concerned. Take that filthy rug called (shudder) GLOBAL WARMING that Joel was beating yet again in his piece (entitled "Grim news is lost in shadow of TV imagery" [there's that word again]). Canadian media, apparently much more astute than the American cable channels Joel fumes about, still monitor this outrage in their pursuit of environmental awareness. What they apparently don't monitor - and neither does Joel - is the Canadian city of Victoria, British Columbia, which is still dumping its raw sewage into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Talk about shadows...

Expect more of this tripe as we near Landslide Day '04 and the leftie panic level intensifies. All of Bush's transgressions will be brought to the fore; his taste in clothing is poor, his diction is lacking, his eyes are too close together, he smirks when we pound to snot out of some tinpot dictator, he allows states to abuse educational opportunities...he gets rides in jets.

The telling moment about the carrier landing was when McAullife asked the repubs to make a pledge to not show the landing in campaign commercials......the libes know that event was on of the greatest in presidential politics.

It will now be in the history books forever along with the admiration on the faces of the members of the armed forces present to greet their commander in chief.

I would love to see the president now parachute in with the 82nd airborne just to see senator "KKK" Byrd have to be carried off the senate floor to change his depends.....LOL

Well said, YKC. When I watched this live, I had tears in my eyes.

Ronald Reagan, who understood collectivism, and its variants, better than any US President that I can recall, said that the defining characteristic of leftists is their belief that the end justifies the means. In other words, their morality or code of values is best described as complete amorality. They will lie, cheat, steal, murder, as long as their agenda is advanced.

What I admire about Bush, whom I view as a "Junior Ronnie", is WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get. He stands out from the crowd with his convictions, his courage, and his fine moral compass.

As the soviet archives revealed, Reagan puzzled and instilled fear in the soviet nomenclatura. They said this is a man who means what he says and for whom ideas are important.

I think Bush is evolving along these lines.

G-d Bless America, Forever.

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