[Puppage]

Dems Don't Get Terror Threat

That's because John Kerry told us that the threat of terrorism is overblown.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

That bin Laden plotted to kill 3,000 Americans during the waning years of his term is irrelevant.

bin Laden plotted to kill 50,000 + Americans.

It was a miracle that only 3,000 died that day!!

[Huck]

February 10, 2004 -- PRESIDENT Bush's $530 billion expansion of Medicare won't kill anyone, and it can be reversed. Bush's tax cuts won't kill anyone, and they can be repealed. A $500 billion budget deficit won't kill anyone, and it can be repaid. Islamist terrorists can - and will - kill people. So voters who are unhappy with Bush's unchecked spending habit - and they have a point - had better hold their noses and come to the polls in November.

Islamist terrorists remain the clearest and most present danger to America. Yet the Democrats who represent themselves as the foreign-policy experts of the pack would turn the clock on national security back to the middle of the Clinton era.

Ok. Work with me on this. Will there ever be a time when terror is not a threat? Seems to me the answer is no. The war on terror is a permanent war, isn't it? Will there ever come a day when we say "OK, let's let our guard down now. It's safe?" I don't think so.

Ok then. If you accept that premise, then what are we to make of the first paragraph? Does a strong stance on terrorism now mean you can spend us into oblivion, cuz it "won't kill you?" And meanwhile, we're blaming the Dims for being weak on terror, but 9-11 happened with the GOP in control of all 3 branches. Go figure.

[God luvs America]

Do you have a direct link to the story rather then just the front page of the AJC?

[petitfour]

We went to a Kerry campaign stop the other day. ZERO security. We walked right in. We were within tobacco-spittin' distance of the guy. One report of the event said there were 1000+ folks in attendance. I think that was an overestimation. However, are all Kerry events this free? What about the other candidates? Even if there is no SS protection until the convention or whatever the rule is, shouldn't security for candidates and their event attendees be a priority?

[DixieCapricorn]

President Bush needs to win in a landslide. Otherwise the Dems will take the election results to court, and if it again goes to the Supreme Court, I don't trust them after Campaign Finance Reform. We must get everyone out to vote Republican.

[mabelkitty]

The Dems in the Senate can't even secure their own network server, and they want us to trust them with security of our country?

Is this a joke or what?

[petercooper]

She's great!

Common sense.

[American_Centurion]

I now have a new tagline.

[sr4402]

I searched on NICOLE GELINAS for any articles in ajc.com with no luck. A Yahoo search reveals her writing articles for other papers like the NY Post.

Where is the URL for this article?

[InvisibleChurch]

it's not that they don't 'get' the threat, they just don't believe that any one of them will actually be a victim of terrorism, but that when others are, they can step in and increase the size of government (even larger than W is making it)

[Stallone]

Destroy the Left at every opportunity.

Admit nothing, provide no apologies or excuses.

Parry each thrust and shoot to kill.

[rhema]

[Rummyfan]

Wow! This from the Journal Constitution!

[Windcatcher]

My theory is that the Dems don't value working stiffs -- only allies (committed lefties). If the 9/11 attackers had waited and hit the Oscars instead, the Klymers in the country would be wailing, gnashing teeth, and screaming bloody murder. Berkeley students would tear down their dorms brick by brick and build a Second Wailing Wall. Seattle lefties would build an even bigger statue of Lenin. The NYT would black out the front page for a week. People who get up, kiss their significant others boodbye, and go to work in the WTC, the belly of the Capitalist beast, just aren't valued -- except potentially as a way to accuse W of sleeping at the wheel.

[XHogPilot]

This is an OUTSTANDING article. Found it today at RealClearPolitics.com - glad to see its already posted. It would be nice if everyone at FR read it. No, I take that back, it would be nice if the whole country read it.

Also posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075015/posts