Putting The "D" In "DisLoyal"
The American Soviet Socialist Union is shot through with hypocrisy, the Democrat Party's racists and anti-Semites are coming (back) out of the closet, and Harry Reid, the one-time "conservative Democrat" from Nevada, has come to personify the functional lobotomization of contemporary liberalism.
But it is still militant pacifism - or, some dare call it, treason - that most defines today's DisLoyal Opposition.
According to the Boston Globe (via TKS), only half of Democrats surveyed in a left-wing poll consider winning the GWOT to be a "top priority," versus 62% who think "stopping the spread of AIDS" belongs in that spot. Only five out of every eight Donks believe American troops should defend our embassies overseas against terrorist attacks (Remember that embassies are sovereign territory no different from contiguous American soil).
This poll was taken seventeen months ago. Given the hysterical sedition that was the Dem reaction to the leak of the NSA terrorist surveillance program, it's a pretty safe bet that those numbers haven't risen since then, and have probably plunged instead.
J-Ger cites another, more recent survey with dismayingly but predictably similar results. To wit: 41% of Democrats think Operation Enduring Freedom, the post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan to crush al Qaeda's then-base of operations and its Taliban hosts, was a "mistake," and almost 43% of the out-of-power party would oppose the use of military force against any "terrorist camp" anywhere. Guess this blows up the whole "Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror" meme.
Geraghty sagely asks, "If their base voters have views like this, how hawkish can elected Democrats be?" The answer, of course, is, "As much as necessary to con enough voters into electing them," provided they have enough candidates with Clintonoid dissembling capabilities. Have no illusions about the Donk base going along, either - if they heaved Dr. Demented overboard in favor of Mr. French the last time on the avowed grounds of "electability," they won't fail to support a faux hawk that actually can flip another "red" state or two.
If Mrs. Clinton wondered why her ears were burning just now, now she knows.
But it is still militant pacifism - or, some dare call it, treason - that most defines today's DisLoyal Opposition.
According to the Boston Globe (via TKS), only half of Democrats surveyed in a left-wing poll consider winning the GWOT to be a "top priority," versus 62% who think "stopping the spread of AIDS" belongs in that spot. Only five out of every eight Donks believe American troops should defend our embassies overseas against terrorist attacks (Remember that embassies are sovereign territory no different from contiguous American soil).
This poll was taken seventeen months ago. Given the hysterical sedition that was the Dem reaction to the leak of the NSA terrorist surveillance program, it's a pretty safe bet that those numbers haven't risen since then, and have probably plunged instead.
J-Ger cites another, more recent survey with dismayingly but predictably similar results. To wit: 41% of Democrats think Operation Enduring Freedom, the post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan to crush al Qaeda's then-base of operations and its Taliban hosts, was a "mistake," and almost 43% of the out-of-power party would oppose the use of military force against any "terrorist camp" anywhere. Guess this blows up the whole "Iraq is a distraction from the war on terror" meme.
Geraghty sagely asks, "If their base voters have views like this, how hawkish can elected Democrats be?" The answer, of course, is, "As much as necessary to con enough voters into electing them," provided they have enough candidates with Clintonoid dissembling capabilities. Have no illusions about the Donk base going along, either - if they heaved Dr. Demented overboard in favor of Mr. French the last time on the avowed grounds of "electability," they won't fail to support a faux hawk that actually can flip another "red" state or two.
If Mrs. Clinton wondered why her ears were burning just now, now she knows.
posted by JASmius at 8:03 AM
<<< Home