The Real Issue in This Election
Cox and Forkum are two of the most popular political cartoonists of our day. Here is a fresh example, with some commentary: Evasive Maneuvers
Look at that picture carefully: the voters have just driven a tank over the Democratic Party. That donkey still thinks he got run over because he plumped for gay marriage. Of course,
That is a perfect metaphor for what George W. Bush, very correctly, did: as soon as he made his victory speech, he must have summoned his war planners--or, more likely, given them the "execute" order. Here we are, not even two weeks after the election, and we're about to finish cleaning the rats out of Fallujah and have also gathered a wealth of intelligence take--or "evidence" if you will.
Cox and Forkum's commentary does, however, fail to account totally for why the Democrats set themselves up to lose. Why did they get in the way of the War on Terror? Because the top people in that party are the same anti-Vietnam peaceniks who learned to loathe the military. So among the moral values that the Democrats trashed to their detriment are respect for military valor, honor, and above all, victory. That's a bad platform to stand on in a war against an enemy that has already scored a deadly hit on your neighbors.
Where is John Wayne when we need him? Ronald Reagan's own biography of Wayne has this choice excerpt:
Look at that picture carefully: the voters have just driven a tank over the Democratic Party. That donkey still thinks he got run over because he plumped for gay marriage. Of course,
- The Democratic Party never said "Boo!" on one side or the other on that matter, and
- of the eleven states that voted on Constitutional amendments banning gay "marriage," all of them approved of their respective amendments easily, and Kerry carried about half those States.
That is a perfect metaphor for what George W. Bush, very correctly, did: as soon as he made his victory speech, he must have summoned his war planners--or, more likely, given them the "execute" order. Here we are, not even two weeks after the election, and we're about to finish cleaning the rats out of Fallujah and have also gathered a wealth of intelligence take--or "evidence" if you will.
Cox and Forkum's commentary does, however, fail to account totally for why the Democrats set themselves up to lose. Why did they get in the way of the War on Terror? Because the top people in that party are the same anti-Vietnam peaceniks who learned to loathe the military. So among the moral values that the Democrats trashed to their detriment are respect for military valor, honor, and above all, victory. That's a bad platform to stand on in a war against an enemy that has already scored a deadly hit on your neighbors.
Where is John Wayne when we need him? Ronald Reagan's own biography of Wayne has this choice excerpt:
I saw his loyalty in action many times. I remember that when Duke and Jimmy Stewart were on their way to my second inauguration as governor of California they encountered a crowd of demonstrators under the banner of the Vietcong flag. Jimmy had just lost a son in Vietnam. Duke excused himself for a moment and walked into the crowd. In a moment there was no Vietcong flag.I'm just waiting for the first nitwit protester to fly a green crescent-moon-and-star flag at some anti-war protest today.
posted by Temlakos at 2:20 PM
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