John Kerry Wants It Too Much
Vox Blogoli IV: Why vote for Bush, and what's wrong with Kerry?
Ah, such sublimely simple questions about which so many more than 250 words could, and have, been written.
I could be glib and say that Bush is strong and Kerry is weak, Bush is decisive and Kerry is a waffler, Bush is a patriot and Kerry is a globalist, Bush has sound judgment and Kerry is always wrong, Bush is a warrior when need be and Kerry is a pacifist to the very gates of Islamist hell.
But such a moment doesn't call for glibness.
The truth is, John Kerry scares me. He scares me as the sort of Carterite/Clintonoid commander-in-chief he would be in a time of national peril, the frankly terrifying depiction of which is all too vividly captured by William Tucker yesterday in the American Spectator.
But that's not the only way in which John Kerry is frightening. Read this AP story that came over the wires this morning. Think about what it means. The campaigning, the polls, the rallies, the conventions, the speeches, the debates, the "ground game," the issues - to Kerry and the Democrats, it's all irrelevant. They will never accept defeat because they don't believe that "democracy" is "legitimate" unless they are handed power. Even if Kerry fails to sue George Bush back to Texas, they'll still agitate and vituperate and obstruct. And, given the wave of domestic terrorism that's hit Republicans over the past month, maybe a lot worse.
In short, a political Samson complex: if Democrats can't rule, then nobody can. Thus will America become increasingly ungovernable.
And that's if Bush wins. If Kerry seizes power, at the head of what has literally become a party of hate, can anybody seriously see them not using that power to so stack and rig the system that America becomes a one-party state in everything but name? And launching a wave of repression and reprisal upon their opponents? If they're defacing campaign signs and painting swastikas on private property now, what will they do then?
John Kerry is a threat to national security, and his party is a threat to American democracy.
John Kerry is not a good man.
George W. Bush is a good man.
We must all vote accordingly - while a good, strong America still stands.
Ah, such sublimely simple questions about which so many more than 250 words could, and have, been written.
I could be glib and say that Bush is strong and Kerry is weak, Bush is decisive and Kerry is a waffler, Bush is a patriot and Kerry is a globalist, Bush has sound judgment and Kerry is always wrong, Bush is a warrior when need be and Kerry is a pacifist to the very gates of Islamist hell.
But such a moment doesn't call for glibness.
The truth is, John Kerry scares me. He scares me as the sort of Carterite/Clintonoid commander-in-chief he would be in a time of national peril, the frankly terrifying depiction of which is all too vividly captured by William Tucker yesterday in the American Spectator.
But that's not the only way in which John Kerry is frightening. Read this AP story that came over the wires this morning. Think about what it means. The campaigning, the polls, the rallies, the conventions, the speeches, the debates, the "ground game," the issues - to Kerry and the Democrats, it's all irrelevant. They will never accept defeat because they don't believe that "democracy" is "legitimate" unless they are handed power. Even if Kerry fails to sue George Bush back to Texas, they'll still agitate and vituperate and obstruct. And, given the wave of domestic terrorism that's hit Republicans over the past month, maybe a lot worse.
In short, a political Samson complex: if Democrats can't rule, then nobody can. Thus will America become increasingly ungovernable.
And that's if Bush wins. If Kerry seizes power, at the head of what has literally become a party of hate, can anybody seriously see them not using that power to so stack and rig the system that America becomes a one-party state in everything but name? And launching a wave of repression and reprisal upon their opponents? If they're defacing campaign signs and painting swastikas on private property now, what will they do then?
John Kerry is a threat to national security, and his party is a threat to American democracy.
John Kerry is not a good man.
George W. Bush is a good man.
We must all vote accordingly - while a good, strong America still stands.
posted by JASmius at 7:40 PM
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