Audacity of Truth
Rahmbo:
"Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive."
-Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) on Obama's COS, 3/7/10
Velvet Lair- Legends March 18, 2010
- Some things are just not cute March 18, 2010
- The adventures of the lady spider killer continue March 11, 2010
- Intermission February 19, 2010
- People who allow their dogs to poop in other people’s yards February 16, 2010
- Big Government
- Hot Air
- Michelle Malkin
- Video: Baghdad Jim McDermott rails against conservative “indecency”
- Attorneys general launch lawsuit backlash against Demcare
- The gloater-in-chief: “Another stone laid in the foundation of the American dream;” Pelosi jokes: “No money exchanged hands (laughter);” Slaughter: “There is nothing now that we can’t tackle”
- Jake Tapper
- Legal Insurrection
- Lynn Sweet
Ok, I’ll admit it
Ann Althouse has up a must-read post today on admitting depression about how the elections turned out – and she addresses it from a non-partisan perspective:
What is it, exactly?
It’s the failure of Americans to support the war. It’s the folding and crumpling because things didn’t go well enough and the way we conspicuously displayed that to our enemies. They’re going to use that information.
For how long?
Forever.
[...]
What I’m concerned about is national security and, consequently, the way the election was fought and is being interpreted. I’m upset because I think we have sent a terrible message to our enemies: Just hang on long enough and continue to inflict some damage, and the Americans will lose heart and give up. You barely need anything at all. You might not be able to hijack a plane with a box cutter anymore, but you can take back a country — a country we conquered with overwhelming military power — merely by mercilessly and endlessly setting off small bombs in your own town day after day.
How much harder it becomes ever to fight and win a war again. Only pacifists and isolationists should feel good about the way this election was won.
ST reader Gahrie is on a similar wavelength.
It is indeed depressing, but we need to do our best to make lemonade out of lemons (as we say here in the South). I think the far left, many of whom will be in positions of power (like Pelosi, Rangel, Reid, and Conyers), are eventually going to overplay their hands and it won’t take long before the American people start to see what kind of fruitcakes they elected to serve. Hopefully along with that will come a backlash that will force back the more liberal wing, while allowing the moderates on their side and conservatives on our side the opportunity to put forth more sensible proposals this country can get behind. This would give Republicans the opportunity to win back the trust of the American people at the same time the Democratic party’s more liberal wing self-destructs.
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Excellent points.
While we can point to which ideological groups hold ht power now, the fact is that the war has been made the enemy and the troops will bear the brunt of that.
Well, who knows? We kept the Republican voters pretty much, lost the Democrats, as expected, but we also lost the independents, the ones we had been winning.
When things go bad for a party (either one), they can still usually hold their own, because of a sense of loyalty. But the independents are, by definition, loyal to no one, and they have to be held by positive accomplishment — which we did not do.
Our theme was, unfortunately, “Vote for us, ’cause we’re not as bad as the Democrats.” That ain’t a winning theme.
I don’t honestly believe that the Dems will pull the troops out before the mission is accomplished. This isn’t Vietnam, where we were trying to keep a country into two seperate parts. We won this war. We just didn’t expect the rush of foreign fighters to cross the borders in support of such a horrible tyranical regime. This is what we fight now. Which has anyone noticed lately how the MSM is not using the term “insurgent”, but is using the term “terrorist”??? Hmmmmm seems the puff pieces are beginning sooner than I thought they would.
Look Guys, the burden of proof is now on the Dems to prove that we cannot win this war. I don’t believe that they can prove it. I just heard on the news this morning that 10 ‘terrorists” were just caught in Iraq, including quite possibly the new leader of Al Qaida. Which logically the Dems can’t continue to say that Iraq is not apart of the WOT because we keep finding AQ there.
We can find all sorts of holes in the logic, and if we can find them so can a multitude of Americans. It might just be the optimist in me, but I think this can be a good thing for the Reps. If this brings them back to their senses, and helps them realize that conservatism is not just a good idea, but a true discipline then it has the possibility to make us stronger. What is the old clique’?? “What does not kill us, only makes us stronger”, well that might sound corny and all, but let us hope it holds true here. Let’s hope that we can find leaders who will support conservatives, and not try to find moderates. Which is one of the things that really po’d me about GW. Why he continued to believe that moderates were better than conservatives is just beyond me, but that is a discussion for another thread. – Lorica
I don’t honestly believe that the Dems will pull the troops out before the mission is accomplished. This isn’t Vietnam
So the fact that McGovern is running around talking about pulling our troops out by June 2007, and comparing Iraq to Vietnam is just a coincidence?
The long list of Democrats scheduled to meet with McGovern are inaccurate?
Murtha and the Kossacks are going to have no impact on what the Dems do?
Once upon a time I believed in the tooth fairy and the easter bunny, but I grew up…..
There will be a backlash against Democrats – that is for sure. But will it do Republicans any good?
I doubt it. After this year’s do-nothing campaign – in which the RNC’s #1 goal was to not upset Democrats and the MSM – I have little hope that the GOP will magically and mysteriously grow a spine between now and the next election.
2008 will probably be between a Democrat (Feingold is the most likely candidate to emerge) and a Democrat-lite (McCain or Guliani). An election for prom king and queen would be more intellectual than the 2008 presidential election will prove to be.
But the 1000-year Democratic Reich will prove to be short lived. There are a bunch of guys crouching in caves with bombs and guns shouting “Allah akhbar!” who have proven to be smarter and more savvy in war-making than any Democrat ever was.
So the fact that McGovern is running around talking about pulling our troops out by June 2007, and comparing Iraq to Vietnam is just a coincidence?
When I found out about this, it sent a chill down my spine. It’s certainly not good news that they are talking to McGovern, that’s for sure.
It is in the return of the Democratic male that I am most chagrined. How embarrassing it is that America will again be represented by the hip-swishing, limp-wristed lispers whose exhibitions of bravery in the face of enemies who want to murder us will consist of a girly run in cowering, trembling terror to the UN. There you will see the Democratic male in true form, stamping his feet and hysterically sobbing, “they’re not being fair, they’re not being fair”.
Once upon a time I believed in the tooth fairy and the easter bunny, but I grew up…..
But you certainly didn’t learn any common courtesy. I don’t give a squat who meets with whom. The Dems want a win in 2008, and they are not about to pull the troops out in 2007, and have all that negative press as the people are voting. Yes let’s watch all our hard work go to waste and the price of oil sky rocket to 100.00 per barrel, all because some idiot wanted to pull our troops out before the mission could be accomplished. Yeah I grew up too, but am still smart enough to know you aren’t going to get anymore miles out of a horse you just beat to death. – Lorica
Lorica – read what gahrie wrote again. I think you misunderstood.
Re-read it 3 times. Nope seems pretty pugilistic. I am willing to believe that I misunderstand, but I have misunderstood to a point where I can’t see where I went wrong. – Lorica