Tuesday, October 26, 2004

 
-Said it before and will say it again, Kerry and many others are not unpatriotic because they criticize Bush's conduct of the war on terrorism, they criticize him because they are unpatriotic. Out of cowardice or political expediency or because they truly don't wish to be *too* divisive during a time of war, mainstream Republicans haven't much used such ad hominem arguments however much justified since at least the time during which Coulter's Tailgunner Joe was viewed as something less than evil incarnate. And as said before if Kerry had given the appearence of bending over backward to be fair to our President during a time of war-say, tirelessly *defending* scores of major and minor decisions made by the Bush administration in foreign policy(eg. eg. "that would be Monday Morning Quarterbacking; Bush made choice "A," as might have I in his shoes, and those who say he should have made choice "B", a choice I might have also made(nuance would be ok here)fail to realize that might have led to consequence C, blah blah, blah)Kerry might be doing far *better* in the polls than he is doing now as voters decided that maybe Bush *was* incompetent and that Kerry would be a non-divisive patriot deserving of a chance to do better.
Republicans might not have been perfectly non-partisan angels had a President Gore had to deal with 9/11, but I don't believe the historical record suggests that their 2004 campaign would have even remotely resembled that of this year's Democrats.
And Kerry's(and many others like him) opposition to U.S. involvement in southeast asia was so patently unpatriotic as to, if anything, stiffen the resolve to pay any price etc. even among those who would have supported a commander in chief who withdrew our troops while acknowledging the magnitude and tragedy of our defeat, and the overall decency of our forces.(*all* of which Kerry savagely denigrated as he argued absurdly that there wouldn't be many refugees after a communist victory, and that most Vietnamese peasants knew next to nothing about communism(news flash-the tenets of communism are simple and have a universal sociobiological appeal(yeah, we're *all* communist sympathisizers to some extent; even us ol' anti-communists)and I'll bet that a lot of peasants had to sit through hours and hours of Commie 101 by visiting Vietcong lecturers during the 60s)and that many of our troops and most of our commanders, not the enemy, were the *real* war criminals. -worth untangling the syntax?---nah.....