The Redhunter

When our nation was founded, we had men of real character and courage fighting for their nascent America, one in which liberty and freedom trumped the authorative tendencies of the monarchy. Patrick Henry gave words to those efforts:

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

My, how far we have fallen, with an administration that parlays the incessant fear of its supporters into increased authoritativeness [sic] to the point where he now resembles the very despot we fought in our war of independence.

And his supporters bellow, as they cower under their beds:

"Here's our liberties, just spare us from death!"

These blowhards pretend they are macho even as they piddle on themselves in abject terror from every "boo!" that comes out of Osama Bin Laden's mouth. They like to speak about how tough they are, even though they send others to fight their battles and couldn't last a day in places like Iraq, or Sudan, or the El Salvador of my youth, or any other war-torn nation....

The breathtaking cowardice of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists knows no bounds. They hide behind the American flag and our genuinely brave men and women in uniform. It's bad enough that they wouldn't deign to join the boots in the ground in Iraq. But now they make a mockery of our Constitution, for the very values that motivated our Founding Fathers to put their lives on the line to combat the unchecked powers of the British monarchy.

It's not entirely clear as to whether he's talking about the War on Terror in general or the war in Iraq in particular, although it doesn't really matter. The speciousness of his "chickenhawk" argument has been dealt with elsewhere, so I won't waste time on that one now.

Good News and Bad News

Actually, it's not just good news for Republicans, but for anyone who cares about winning the War on Terror around the world, and as such that includes reasonable Democrats.

As Byron York demonstrated in his excellent book The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, the Democrat party is almost entirely in the grip of far left groups like Moveon.org, and people like Michael Moore and George Soros. The Daily Kos is one of if not the most influential and important left-wing sites on the Internet.

Markos Moulitsas himself "is closely connected to the Democratic party leadership", as York observes. York also reveals that Moulitsas meets regulary with the staff of minority leader Senator Harry Reid(and sometimes with the Senator himself), and after the 2004 elections addressed the Democrat Senate Caucus itself.

Of course, anyone who has simply read the papers knows that most Democrats are becoming more and more unhinged in their denunciations of President Bush and the war in Iraq.

The Good News is that this helps the Republicans. And in order to continue winning the War on Terror we need to keep them in power both in the White House and Congress. Even though the public might be uneasy with aspects of the President's policies, they will not turn en masse to the Democrats given their current general state of lunacy.

The Bad News is that this is that our country needs two parties who are both determined to win the War on Terror in general and the War in Iraq in particular. One reads with nostalgia the debates between Richard M Nixon and John F Kennedy in 1960, they were both strong anti-communists, and both wanted the strongest military posture we could reasonably afford.

Those were the days. Now we fight not only our enemies overseas, but A New Fifth Column at home who want to undermine us. We must not let them succeed.