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Feb 28, 2004 Sen. Zell Miller has company on my “Most Liked Democrat Tree”. Orson Scott Card takes his fellow democrats to task for some of the more seriously stupid things said and done by his party in the name of political expedience. His December 16, 2003 article in “WSJ.com” entitled, “The Campaign of Hate and Fear” nails the dealers in rhetoric right between the “ploys”. Imagine a democrat actually asking himself, “Could this insane, self-destructive, extremist-dominated party actually win the presidency?” I love that question! I love Orson Scott Card! Mr. Card rightfully identifies the strategy of the enemies of America in the war against terrorism: “If you make war cost enough, Americans will give up and go home.” The democrat challenges against the war policies of the Bush administration, “Threatens to undermine our war effort [and] give encouragement to our enemies.” It will also “cost American lives” because Bush is not Clinton. Iraq is not Somalia. Iraq is not Vietnam. We are fighting this war to win it. Mr. Card truly understands President Bush who “explicitly said” the Iraq campaign is not over. We have a long way to go there and the blame must be laid where it belongs. We should blame the enemy. A question we must all consider is, “Think what it [would] mean if we elect a democrat candidate who has committed himself to an antiwar posture in order to get his party’s nomination?” MAN! I think of what President Bush said a little while ago, admitting he was a “war President”. Charles Rangel is still blasting Bush for that comment. When John Kerry was asked, “Are you a war president?”, his response was “I am a jobs president. I am a health care president, I am a blah, blah, blah …”, and all of that means squat when needing to fight a war. Mr. Card knows that almost all the anti-Bush anti- war talk is rhetoric. There is not one serious, intelligent counter argument. This nation was attacked. It must not be attacked again. To take the war to our enemies is exactly the right tactic. To take an anti-war posture now would only certify the efforts of our enemies. The correlations Mr. Card makes between Iraq and Vietnam boil down to this: We did not fight Vietnam to win. We must fight the war against terrorism to win. What of the economy? Bush inherited a Clinton created recession, but the critics blamed Bush with the help of liberal media. The proposed tax cuts had not even been signed into law when they became the chief cause for the recession. Mr. Card said, “We are being lied to and “spun”, and not in a trivial way.” It is the democrats, and they are not being held to account for their lies “as they do when the liars and haters are Republicans or conservatives.” Every day we read and hear the negatives of the economy while the positives are downplayed or glossed over. “We have a major recovery, but, unfortunately, it is “Jobless,” (except of course for the 320,000 created last month). This nation has enough enemies and yet the democrats rant as though it is the President and all Republicans that we should “hate and fear”. Bush is evil. Bush is Hitler. Bush is the devil. That is all just so much crap! Card says, “I keep looking, as a democrat, for a single candidate who is actually offering a significant improvement over the Republican policies that in fact don’t work…” Aren’t we all? All we have heard from this entire campaign is how someone is voting democrat because anything is better than Bush. “ANYTHING?” “ANYTHING?’ We had a big taste of “anything” from 1992 through 2000. That taste was BAD! We are now receiving the taste of substance and policy and actual governance; things surely more palpable. I don’t believe President Bush has solicited the Communist Chinese for a single dollar of campaign cash and I haven’t seen Dick Cheney walking out of any Buddhist Temple with a handful of checks either. I understand Mr. Card has come under severe condemnation for his words of support for the President and his words against those who stir up the “Hate and Fear” for political gain. He blames his own party. This past year of certifiable democrat debates only managed to highlight the hatred. Not one single debate allowed for any logical discussion of issues or the offering of real solutions to real problems. Everything was Bush’s fault and the only way to fix anything is to get rid of Bush. That is not a platform. That is a “Campaign of Hate and Fear”. It is sad so few democrats see that. Well, said Mr. Card. ------------ About the Author: Independent, Conservative, Christian. Married 29 years with 5 children raised and one grandson being raised. 30 year Army Veteran and published poet with www.poetry.com since Y2K. Email Michael John McCrae: michael.mccrae@us.army.mil Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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