Their key failing is that they can't recognize that fact.
At first glance it may seem to bolster their position but in fact it causes their whole ideology to crumble.
One member, calling himself George bush-bin-Laden, has been copying-and-pasting essays from left-wing hate sites such as Democratic Underground, Salon and Bartcop. It seems that all of the lefties are circling around the dead like vultures, screeching, "Blame Bush! Blame Bush! Blame Bush!"
As usual, it's either SunRock, NJCher, Youthful Indiscretion or George Bush-bin-Laden jumping on every new thread, spreading the usual 100% organic left-wing fertilizer.
These left-wing fringe dwellers have repeatedly attempted from the very beginning to gain political yardage from these events. For days the conservatives at Capitol Grilling, and even a few liberals who still have a soul, tried to convince them to stop and show some respect for the dead. But they just keep on circling like vultures over the dead, screeching "Blame Bush! Blame Bush! Blame Bush!"
I had to copy-and-paste a statement from Secretary of State Colin Powell that confirmed all aid sent to the Afghans was humanitarian in nature (in the form of grain, medical supplies and other hard goods instead of cash), routed through relief organizations such as Red Crescent to keep it out of the hands of the Taliban. I also provided a link to the State Department website where Powell's statement was first posted. And they still won't stop attacking our duly elected President during a time of crisis, when we should be rallying behind him.
Do they really believe that at some point, in a smoke-filled room at the White House, Bush said to Powell, "Hey, let's send $43 million in small, unmarked bills to Osama bin Laden to help him destroy America"? Do they really expect others who aren't stupid to believe it? (Of course, they've always been able to count on the stupid vote.)
I have also repeatedly pointed out that the Supreme Court was enforcing a statutory deadline for certifying the Florida vote -- in other words, they were enforcing a valid law passed by the elected legislature of the state of Florida -- and that the recounts this spring, at the behest of the Miami Herald and other media, proved that Bush would have won the recount anyway. I also pointed out that over 7500 convicted felons somehow managed to vote in Florida and that their voted were counted; and that a poll of these felons indicated that 68% of them voted for Gore. (At least they can count on the felon vote.)
Finally, I've pointed out that three separate 19th Century presidents won the electoral college and the presidency while losing the popular vote (as Bush did), but nobody calls any of those presidents illegitimate. None of these left-wing fringe dwellers has even attempted to refute any of this, yet they still jump on every new thread to claim that Bush's presidency is illegitimate.
They keep on keepin' on with their cute little plays on words, such as "pResident Shrub" and "Supreme Court Injustices." They have convinced themselves that they are so very, very clever.
Gore was a vice-president during a time of peace and prosperity. Under those conditions he should have ascended to the presidency in a landslide victory. The fact that he did not speaks volumes about the complete moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the party of the Left. The fact that the presidency was even within the reach of George W. Bush is a damning indictment of the DNC.
Before the Republicans took over Congress in 1994, Clinton and the Democrats slashed spending on the CIA, the DIA, the NSA and other intelligence agencies. Among other things, this cost us hundreds of data analysts, who used to sit quietly in their cubicles, sifting through mountains of data. They are the ones who put the pieces of the puzzle together. When the Republicans took over Congress, they tried to restore the funding; but their majority wasn't big enough to be veto-proof.
If those data analysts had still been on the job, one of them might have noticed that known associates of Osama bin Laden were receiving multi-engine pilot training at a flight school in Venice, Florida. When the voting records of the Democratic incumbents on intelligence funding are used against them in the 2002 elections, the bleating, whining and squealing from the Left will be even louder than it was in December.
Since 1992, Democrats have lost about 70 Congressional seats, over 1,200 state legislature seats and 13 governorships to the Republicans, and over 300 Democratic politicians have changed parties.
The last time a Democrat won a landslide victory was in 1964. That was before the party adopted gay rights, the right to kill an unborn child, the disarming of law-abiding citizens to make them defenseless victims of violent crime, and affirmative action quotas as the cornerstones of their platform.
Since 1964, Republicans have won three bona fide landslides, and only one Democrat has ever won more than 50% of the vote: Jimmy Carter in 1976.
And that was right after Watergate.
And it was very close.
And it was 25 years ago.
Consider also that as people grow older, they tend to become more conservative. Remember that old saying attributed to Winston Churchill: "Anyone who is not a liberal at 20 has no heart. Anyone who is not a conservative at 40 has no brain." Now consider that in tandem with the fact that the segment of the population that is eligible to vote is steadily growing older.
The Left used to have a faint glimmer of hope with the younger generation, since they were mostly liberal. Many of them disliked cops. Some of them had even been brainwashed to the point of feeling disgust when seeing a recruiting ad, or hearing a fighter jet fly overhead.
The other night, I saw interviews with a group of students from Stuyvesant High. This is a gifted school in lower Manhattan, very near what used to be the World Trade Center. They were told to stay where they were, and they saw everything from their classroom windows.
And I do mean everything.
Now they welcome the sight of policemen and fighter jets. There's another old saying I'd like to repeat: "A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged." In a sense, this whole generation of young people was mugged last Tuesday. This group from Stuyvesant High used to be very bright, articulate and liberal. They're now very bright, articulate and conservative. And there are millions more like them.
The left-wing fringe dwellers marginalize themselves with every word they post on these websites. Moderate swing voters see the irrational hatred that they spew, and the obsessive-compulsive way in which they still refuse to acknowledge defeat in the state of Florida, and they shake their heads in disbelief and walk into our camp.
Keep up the good work for our party, SunRock.
I cannot wait for 2002.