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2004-10-29 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by mojo 2004-10-29 15:13|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Damn! Is Card is Rantburger?

Don't Americans understand that the Left is entitled to power?

That's why it's OK to do selective recounts in Florida and try to disenfranchise American soldiers and sailors -- all the while claiming that it's the Republicans who are disenfranchising people.

That's why it's OK to filibuster in the Senate in order to block the president from appointing perfectly qualified judges -- and why it's OK to make ridiculously false attacks on those judicial appointees.

That's why it's fine for John Kerry to pretend that he'll be tough on defense even though everybody on the Left is counting on him doing just the opposite in office -- because any lie that restores the proper order of things is a good lie.

That's why Kerry and Edwards can lie about Bush's record on stem cell research and make hilarious and offensive claims that if they are elected, the crippled will rise up and walk. A Republican making such a claim would become a complete laughingstock in the media; but if it might sway a single voter to restore the proper order of things, then the Leftist media dare not to discredit the claim.

That's why CBS throws journalistic ethics to the wind and runs with a story about Bush's National Guard service that is based on obviously fabricated documents. That's why ABC News has no problem with exposing only "distortions" by Bush and ignoring outright lies by Kerry.

That's why the New York Times prints a story claiming that Bush said, in a closed meeting, that he plans to "privatize" Social Security -- even though the word privatize is actually the Left's term, which Bush would never utter, and Bush's openly stated plan has always been to allow young workers the option of investing a portion of their Social Security contribution.

There was no news story there at all -- but anything that might scare senior citizens into panicking and voting for Kerry is worth printing.

That's why lawyers and politicians are already gearing up to attempt to steal the election after the fact by making false claims about intimidation of minority voters by evil Republicans -- when they know perfectly well that it's the Left that is openly using tactics of intimidation.

Like when they sent mobs of union workers to "demonstrate" inside the small local offices of the Bush campaign in Florida, terrifying a handful of Bush campaign workers with a Brown-shirt tactic that, if it had been carried out by, say, NRA members against Kerry headquarters, would now be the biggest story of the campaign season.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-10-29 5:02:59 PM|| 2004-10-29 5:02:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 mojo, thanks for posting this. I had no idea that Card thought this way. this is a rather comprehensive statement of the problem with the body politic, a badly inflamed Democrat appendage about to rupture.

Posted by RWV 2004-10-29 5:11:56 PM|| 2004-10-29 5:11:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I reread Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game this past week. Still a great novel.

Considering that it was finished in 1986, it's interesting how one subplot foreshadows the rise of the blogosphere: Ender's brother and sister go online under pseudonyms and become the Wretchard and the Lileks of their day

Posted by Mike 2004-10-29 5:36:32 PM|| 2004-10-29 5:36:32 PM|| Front Page Top