Monday, August 22, 2005
Self-Destruction: Please Continue
I've been watching the Left lately (meaning the last few years) with an increasing degree of glee and amusement. The most-recent example of what I've enjoyed so much is one Cindy Sheehan.
For a partisan like me, she has been a cornucopia of political pleasure. The more the MSM flogs her story, the better it gets. And there's a reason for this: the MSM no longer has its oft-referenced-but-no-longer-true stranglehold on information available to the public. So when the MSM presents the Mourning Mother™ opposed to the war, Sean Hannity (et al) reminds us of what else she's said on Michael Moore's website or at a rally held in support of a lawyer convicted of assisting her terrorist clientele. Good stuff.
Do I mourn for this sad lady's loss? Certainly. But that emotion had run its course when she declared that the elected president of the United States was the "biggest terrorist in the world." Or perhaps it was when Ralph Nader's memo to Ms Sheehan showed up on Al Jazeera, providing yet another bullet of inspirational ammunition to our enemy.
And I suppose that would be the one thing that would put a cork in my sniggering pie hole about all this the Left has been up to. In addition to shaming themselves mindlessly in the public arena, they're also giving hope to our enemy that we might just quit Iraq before the job is done. Just yesterday on the McLaughlin Group (or Grope, as it were) I sat, mouth agape, as I listened to one commentator predict that there would, by the end of this year, be a major resurgence of an organized and massively-supported Anti-War Movement.
Presumably, such a "movement" would tend to convince the terrorists that if they push just a little harder, and for just a little longer, they might succeed in their goal of convincing the West that we should just walk away from Iraq. And, naturally, that "pushing" would end up costing more American and Iraqi lives. This is, obviously, of little concern to the likes of Ms Sheehan, Mr. Moore, president Carter or David Duke (also one of Sheehan's supporters) and the like.
So, presented with the inevitable effects of the Left's unintended self-destruction - humorous self-immolation and far less amusing aid and comfort to the enemy - I guess I can split the difference and just enjoy a certain sense of warm satisfaction from knowing that as the Left continues apace their influence (both here and with the enemy) will continue to diminish.
And I fully anticipate that I'll continue to be afforded that enjoyment because, for example, John Kerry (blessed be his name) was in Seattle this weekend (oh joy), and said that there was nothing wrong with the Democratic Party and that they should continue on course.
Coincidentally, this also happened to be something said by Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic.
Well, not really, but it's a fun thought.
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I've been watching the Left lately (meaning the last few years) with an increasing degree of glee and amusement. The most-recent example of what I've enjoyed so much is one Cindy Sheehan.
For a partisan like me, she has been a cornucopia of political pleasure. The more the MSM flogs her story, the better it gets. And there's a reason for this: the MSM no longer has its oft-referenced-but-no-longer-true stranglehold on information available to the public. So when the MSM presents the Mourning Mother™ opposed to the war, Sean Hannity (et al) reminds us of what else she's said on Michael Moore's website or at a rally held in support of a lawyer convicted of assisting her terrorist clientele. Good stuff.
Do I mourn for this sad lady's loss? Certainly. But that emotion had run its course when she declared that the elected president of the United States was the "biggest terrorist in the world." Or perhaps it was when Ralph Nader's memo to Ms Sheehan showed up on Al Jazeera, providing yet another bullet of inspirational ammunition to our enemy.
And I suppose that would be the one thing that would put a cork in my sniggering pie hole about all this the Left has been up to. In addition to shaming themselves mindlessly in the public arena, they're also giving hope to our enemy that we might just quit Iraq before the job is done. Just yesterday on the McLaughlin Group (or Grope, as it were) I sat, mouth agape, as I listened to one commentator predict that there would, by the end of this year, be a major resurgence of an organized and massively-supported Anti-War Movement.
Presumably, such a "movement" would tend to convince the terrorists that if they push just a little harder, and for just a little longer, they might succeed in their goal of convincing the West that we should just walk away from Iraq. And, naturally, that "pushing" would end up costing more American and Iraqi lives. This is, obviously, of little concern to the likes of Ms Sheehan, Mr. Moore, president Carter or David Duke (also one of Sheehan's supporters) and the like.
So, presented with the inevitable effects of the Left's unintended self-destruction - humorous self-immolation and far less amusing aid and comfort to the enemy - I guess I can split the difference and just enjoy a certain sense of warm satisfaction from knowing that as the Left continues apace their influence (both here and with the enemy) will continue to diminish.
And I fully anticipate that I'll continue to be afforded that enjoyment because, for example, John Kerry (blessed be his name) was in Seattle this weekend (oh joy), and said that there was nothing wrong with the Democratic Party and that they should continue on course.
Coincidentally, this also happened to be something said by Edward Smith, captain of the Titanic.
Well, not really, but it's a fun thought.
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