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- Michelle Malkin
- Wheeling & dealing: Snowe pow-wows with Obama; Landrieu, Schumer, Daschle behind the scenes
- Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: 8:15pm Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; Reid: “Ted would be happy.”
- Another day, another Berkeley tantrum
- Jake Tapper
- Lynn Sweet
Why don’t Democrats understand the level of the threat we face from Islamofascism?
It’s BDS, of course, as explained in detail by Jeff Jacoby:
What explains the Democrats’ unwillingness to acknowledge the gravity of the global jihad? In part, it may stem from the sense that Islamists and the left share common foes. George Galloway, the radical antiwar British parliamentarian, declared in 2005 that “the progressive movement around the world and the Muslims have the same enemies. . . the Muslims and the progressives are on the same side.”
But to a large extent, the Democrats’ lack of seriousness about the war we are in can only be explained by Bush Derangement Syndrome. The term was coined by commentator Charles Krauthammer, a former psychiatrist, who defines it as “the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency — nay, the very existence of George W. Bush.”
What if not derangement can explain such fever-swamp nuttiness as the findings of a new Rasmussen poll, which asked whether Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance? Among Democrats, 35 percent believe he did know and another 26 percent weren’t sure. Only 39 percent said he didn’t. In other words, nearly two out of three Democrats are unwilling to say that Bush wasn’t tipped off to 9/11 in advance.
In another poll recently, respondents were asked whether they personally wanted Bush’s new security strategy in Iraq to succeed — not whether they expected it to, but whether they wanted it to. Among Democrats, a stunning 49 percent either hoped that the US plan would fail or couldn’t make up their minds.
As long as the 43d president remains in office, a significant number of Americans will be so consumed with Bush-hatred that they will be unable to acknowledge — let alone defeat — the real evil that confronts us all. Will they come to their senses after Jan. 20, 2009? And even if they do, will it be too late?
Hat tip: GayPatriotWest
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Oh the democrats understand it alright. They understand that if the American people realize how much of threat it is, the dems will lose in the elections. Even the dems acknowledge that the American people feel that the Republicans are better at national security. So, by downplaying the threat they increase their chances of getting more dems elected.
This goes far deeper than BDS. Some categories:
1)There exists a signficant number of Americans who really, really dislike this society and the majority of their fellow citizens.
2)There are also a lot of people who–although they may believe this society is worth preserving–simply cannot understand the seriousness of the threat we face. They are like the “battleship admirals” of the 1920s and early 1930s who simply could not believe that the silly-looking airplanes of the period could represent a realistic challenge to their massive steel vessels.
3)There are many snobs and fad-followers who will go along with whatever plays well in their personal and professional circles, and will convince themselves that they argree with it.
4)There are political operatives who care more about the victory of their party than about the survival of their country.
David put it pretty well. BDS is simply the latest manifestation of the larger problems of anti-Americanism and anti-Christianity.
I’m convinced that the DhimmiRATs and their fellow-travellers would rather live in the slavery of dhimmitude and ultimately die under Sharia rather than “suffer” another election cycle with Republicans, conservatives or Christians (or any combination of the three) in power or in a position to regain power.
David, nice reference to the Battleship Admirals.
They better worry big time if Fred Thompson decides to run if his response to Micheal Moore is any indication.
My feeling is that the Democrats are willing to go to any length to win in 08. They probably also believe that we need to do what Clinton did and simply react and not act. This is the party that HATES the military so anytime they can disgrace the people in uniform that’s just a big bonus.
Quite a bit off-topic, but very pertinent – the “24″ season finale starts in about 15 minutes. Please adjust your live-blogging accordingly
I think that whoever gets the GOP’s nomination for president in 2008 will become the MSM’s and the Democrats’ newest “worst president in history”. Bush-43 will swiftly be forgotten.
It will start something like this. The GOP candidate will make some proposal (on taxes, spending, Iraq, minimum wage – the subject does not matter). We will hear things like, “Even Bush never would have proposed that!!”
I saw the same thing happen with Reagan after the 1980 elections. The Gipper was always being compared to Nixon (it seemed) and Milhouse always came off looking better. Example – we kept hearing about Nixon’s “realism” when dealing with the Soviet Empire and Reagan’s “hard-line” policies that were certain to produce atomic war.
Fred Barnes over at The Weekly Standard has a good article about the phenomenon – comparing Bush-43 to Reagan (by distorting Reagan’s record) in order to make Bush look bad. One day Bush will likewise benefit at the expense of whatever Republican happens to occupy the White House at the time.
WAY off-topic – it seems that the Democrat Congress is caving in on Iraq. Funny how a 29% approval rating from a Gallup poll can do that!
It will take another attack of two to get these loons to realize the danger. Until their loved one is acutally killed by one of these attacks they do not see or care about the danger cuz like the above posters say it makes em look better to get in in the 08 elections. That is pretty pathetic, not caring due to political reasons but it is TRUE.
I fear the cells here are plotting and soon we shall see suicide bombings here in malls, churches, schools, shopping center’s ect. Hell, they don’t even want to protect our borders where I heard the stats show mega Chinese have come in so you know muslims are coming across in droves.
This is really pathetic, when we’re hit again the dems may be able to finally identify the threat but hell, I can’t even be sure of that.