| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Yeah, I support the Liberals, too! |
| 2005-06-27 |
| Karl Rove, the alleged mad genius of political campaigning, is in really hot water. Or is it really cold water? Or, maybe thatâs just loud rap music playing in the background. Forgive me if I get my Nazi-like torture techniques mixed up. In any event, Karl Rove is in trouble. Something remarkably outrageous had to be said in order for Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Howard Dean, Harry Reid, and John Kerry to demand that Rove âapologize or resignâ approximately 18 seconds after Rove finished his speech. This should be compared to the immediate calls for an apology that Senate Democrats launched at Dick Durbin for comparing the troops to a mob of fascist, murdering barbarians on the Senate floor last week. Oh wait, that didnât happen. Hysterical over-reaction is saved for the fully substantial comments made by a presidential advisor at a fund-raiser. Any day now Iâm expecting an apology from Rove. He will probably apologize for the liberalsâ misunderstanding of his comments. âHey, Iâm sorry you are an idiot, apology accepted?â What Rove said is quite groundbreaking. After likening Hillary Clinton to Adolf Hitler, Robert Byrd, to the Grandmaster of the KKK, and Michael Moore to âthat guy who orders a diet Coke with his super-sized #7, â he announced that Ted Kennedy had become the latest recipient of the Betty Ford Alcoholic Awareness program. Okay, so none of that happened either. But at least if it did happen the Democrats would actually have had something to complain about. (And, inasmuch as most of that is fairly accurate, they would have been really, really mad.) What Rove did say was--and be warned this is really shocking--that âconservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.â Yawn. Not only is this factually true, but it has been said a million times before and even by the president himself while campaigning this past year. My guess is the Democrats are trying to get the heat off of Durbin, who offered a faux-pology, for awhile. Not going to work, but nice try guys. Democrats, of course, call Roveâs remarks preposterous. Unfortunately for them, and because of that silly thing called the âinternet,â their comments are trapped in endless archives of hundreds of newspapers across the country. For those with short memories who canât remember all the way back to 2001 (and Iâm specifically referring to those people who suddenly think Hillary Clinton is a moderate), the truth can be quickly revisited, and equally inescapable, with a few clicks of the mouse. So despite their refutation that they did not want to âprepare indictmentsâ or try to understand âwhy the hate us,â they, sadly, canât hide from their own shadows. It is quite simple really. Democrats wanted to arrest Osama bin Laden, Republicans wanted to kill him. Liberals wanted to âunderstandâ why militant Islamo-fasicts wanted to kill us and die for their cause, and conservatives understood what âmilitantâ and âfanaticalâ meant and wanted to help them in their cause: to die. If Rove was lying liberals would have brushed off his comments. But he wasnât, and that really infuriates them. But while liberals are wringing their hands over the truth, they are still ignoring the most serious and reckless charges lobbed by a Democrat against the troops since at least last month. With liberals itâs almost becoming a fascinating weekly routine. Lodge ridiculous accusations against the troops, say you love them, and apologize after the public is outraged. From now on, Iâm employing the liberal slander exception in my own career. I can say anything mean and outrageous about liberals so long as I follow such comments with empty adoration. Therefore, liberals are a bunch of anti-American, flag burning, baby-killing, Jetta-driving hippies who hate the troops, smell like the French, and live off the government in a massive conspiracy to destroy America. But all is fair, and donât criticize me, because I support the liberals. About the Writer: Dustin Hawkins is a freelance writer and graduate student at Florida Atlantic University. His website is: http://www.dustinmhawkins.com/ . Dustin receives e-mail at dustinmhawkins@yahoo.com. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #6 You know the Failed Left - want America to obey the UNO whose Mandates are NOT to be followed or obeyed except via Media propaganda; want POTUS's and Pols who make promises but then don't keep them, and argue that GITMO and GLAZE/CHRISTINA-GATE = Soviet Gulag or Auschwitz, where milyuuuhns and zilyuuhns are horribly tortured and maimed eating gourmet chicken and seeing scantily-clad female boobies!? AND, are "forced" FORCED F-O-R-C-E-D To behave militantly and obscenely because of the actions of GOP-Right, and just because the GOP-Right or Anyone doesn't know what the the hell was done wrong first doesn't mean the GOP-Right weren't criminal brutes and thugs, brutish and thuggish, to begin with!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-06-27 21:17 |
| #5 Aw, JFM - That is malicious, gratuitous, and completely unfair. I like it. |
| Posted by: Darth VAda 2005-06-27 20:22 |
| #4 I support liberals... as long as they shoot to one another |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-06-27 15:52 |
| #3 Will sits around kibbitzing with yo-yos like Stephanapoopalis. So true! |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-06-27 12:58 |
| #2 The thust of George Wills complaint against Rove was that Rove was unfairly lumping well meaning liberals into the same barrel.... Unfair? Durbin's comments and the deafening roar of Democratic reaction (oh, wait, that was only Mayor Daley), the Democrats/liberals are firmly on the record as being the party of terrorist rights and jihadi group hugs. If they can win elections with that on their resume, then there's no hope for us anyhow. However, I suspect they can't which is why Rove said what he did. Which is why Rove is paid the big bucks to win presidential campaigns and Will sits around kibbitzing with yo-yos like Stephanapoopalis. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2005-06-27 12:06 |
| #1 I caught a snippet of Stephanopolis last night. They were on about the Rove comments and they actually got George Will to admit "Rove made a mistake". And I had to be, once again, impressed at the Democratic party's ability to change the subject. Even if Karl Rove made "a mistake", which I don't believe, then his comments were hardly more worthy of discussion than were Durbin's comparison of Gitmo to gulags, that inspired Rove's remark. Ahhh...how well the those Dems shake the shiny keys to fill the airwaves with endless, repetive mantras that Republicans are bad, bad, very bad. I caught something right before that on Stephanopolis' show, can't recall what, where the all predictable discussion led to how George Bush was bad because of something, yawn, can't remember what. The People(TM) are upset with him because of something. It's downright boring and predictable to the point of becoming comic. Ok, so he's bad - have you got any other news? I waded through the dimmy underground this morning. It's all the same predictable stuff, nothing new, nothing of real substance. Republicans are stupid. The war is failing. George Bush is a monkey with big ears. Compare that to rantburg which has real reporting on what's really going on, not peanut throwing from the peanut gallery, though we get to do that too. Democrats have reduced themselves to "Vote for us because GW is a monkey who has big ears" and "war is bad for creatures and other living things". Yeah, but lately, some of us have noticed that so is mass starvation and genocide by tyrants. The thust of George Wills complaint against Rove was that Rove was unfairly lumping well meaning liberals into the same barrel as Michael Moore, and that's just not right cause there are some are good, happy liberal folk, who wish for peace and prosperity. Yeah, well, it's about as meaningful as all of those peaceful Muslims who refuse to condemn beheadings, blowing up the the WTC and do little more than complain that the soldiers didn't put their gloves on when handling the Koran, while they call for the death to America in their Friday sermons. It's not that we don't doubt that there are many peaceful Muslims and many peaceful liberals, it's just that if they won't stand up, then they can't be counted. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-06-27 11:27 |