I was semi-wrong and I'm semi-sorry. (Karol Sheinin)
Karol Sheinin
John McCain often rubs me the wrong way. I hate that this longtime Washington politician was considered the maverick outsider in the 2000 election. I hate that Democrats claim to love him despite his sameness on most issues with Bush. And most of all, I hate Campaign Finance Reform, otherwise known as the Act To Ensure That Only The Media Has Any Control over people's opinions on their candidates.
So, tonight, when he went on and on in his speech about his "Democratic friends," I was annoyed. But then, he gave the killer line of the speech with the loudest applause coming after the words "film maker" and it went on and on and on:
"It was a choice between war and a graver threat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our critics abroad. Not our political opponents. And certainly not a disingenious film maker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribably cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves, and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls."
So, tonight, when he went on and on in his speech about his "Democratic friends," I was annoyed. But then, he gave the killer line of the speech with the loudest applause coming after the words "film maker" and it went on and on and on:
"It was a choice between war and a graver threat. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our critics abroad. Not our political opponents. And certainly not a disingenious film maker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribably cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves, and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls."
Who the heck are those losers commenting on your blog?... They're so out there they might have well been the equivalent of "Mobys" for the Republicans (or are you just cursed with some really DUMB lefty commenters?)
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD KAROL DO SOMETHING! hehe.
I thought about responding with something substantive but decided to let the moonbats play as there are some types of people not worth arguing with.
....Now I'm thinking about toying with them but I hate to dumb down a debate to a "I'm boning your mother" level.
Unfortunately, for John McCain, Rudy did a much better job. We might see the very strange thing of a rightwing, pro-life GOP nominating a middle of the road, pro-choicer in 2008...because he's rock-solid on the war.
Jeb I just don't know too much about.
That said, the President has done a stellar job of recognizing that we are at war and that the way to be done with it is to go straight through and come out of it on the other side as the winner.
The Democrats have been somnambulating since 9/10/2001. They still think the main issue is economic equality through more federal spending and controls. The Republicans are at least partially awake. They realize that we are at War and that that is the key issue.
The outcome of this War on Islam's Terror will decide everything else. The very survival of America and Western civilization is at stake. If we lose, there will be no homosexual marriage, no liberty or equality for women, no freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, no privacy, no freedom at all.
And we will either win or lose. There is no substitute for victory. Negotiation, compromise, detente, coexistence, accomodation, appeasement -- out of the question. There can be no compromise with an enemy that seeks to enslave or destroy us. We must never surrender. We must fight to the death. Either we destroy the enemy or else they will destroy us.
"Victory, victory at all cost, victory however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."
-Winston Churchill
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.