Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Orson Scott Card (registration required) hits the nail on the head on everything that a "conservative" Democrat might find wrong with the direction their party has gone. The media spin, the extremism of their candidates, their radical turn and decent in self-deception by their failure to recognize our real enemies and recognize our real successes...it's leading to one end point - shock, confusion and disbelief when the Democrats suffer yet another electoral debacle in 2004. And what's worse, the self-delusion is so deep they themselves won't even understand what happened.
We have enemies that have earned our hatred, and whom we should fear. They are fanatical terrorists who seek opportunities to kill American civilians here and Israeli civilians in Israel. But right now, our national media and the Democratic Party are trying to get us to believe that the people we should hate and fear are George W. Bush and the Republicans.
I can think of many, many reasons why the Republicans should not control both houses of Congress and the White House. But right now, if the alternative is the Democratic Party as led in Congress and as exemplified by the current candidates for the Democratic nomination, then I can't be the only Democrat who will, with great reluctance, vote not just for George W. Bush, but also for every other candidate of the only party that seems committed to fighting abroad to destroy the enemies that seek to kill us and our friends at home.
And if we elect a government that subverts or weakens or ends our war against terrorism, we can count on this: We will soon face enemies that will make 9/11 look like stubbing our toe, and they will attack us with the confidence and determination that come from knowing that we don't have the will to sustain a war all the way to the end.