I brought up this point a long time ago. When Dims are out of power, they oppose everything, which means, even if the cause is right and just, they are against it. When dims are in power, repubs will support them if they do things that are right and just. Which leads to the sickening thought that if we truly want to win the war on Terror we need to get an Ass, ur Donkey in the white house. That way a sympathetic media, Europe and leftist moonbats will turn a blind eye to what would be called "war crime" "Atrocities"(i.e. war) while a republican is in office.
No, I am not advocating this so save the hate mail, I'm just pointing out a truism.
That would possibly work if not for the fact that any Dem elected to the Presidency would likely switch to appeasement mode on January 21, with disaster as the end result.
No, we need to ignore the idiots and the Drive-by Media, and carry, which appears to be what Bush is doing. I do think that a Rudy presidency looks more likely after yesterday as people realize that we are going to be at War with Islam for at least the next five years.
Israel is a case-in-study for this idea now. They do have a central-left coalition with a Labor leader (long time leftist union boss) in the position of a defence minister. Prime Minister Olmert's own family is raving leftists activists. Israeli left dominated media is behaving better than it ever did over the last many-many years. One explanation can be of course that they finally got it. But I still cynically think that the fact that the war is waged by the left had greatly helped to clarify their brains.
On another hand, the Israel is much more timid, slow and unsure in its prolonged actions that it should have been (and used to be) in such situation. Just another side of the coin.
That way a sympathetic media, Europe and leftist moonbats will turn a blind eye to what would be called "war crime" "Atrocities"(i.e. war) while a republican is in office.
The NewYorkSlimes will turn hawkish sure, but the likes of al-Guardian or Le Formage-capitulations-Monde and Guenter Grass Die Zeit will keep on US bashing. Saw a lot of bashings on Bubba in the 1990s from these media saying that Clinton was too "right-wing".