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October 14, 2004
Belly up to the bar, boys!
No more single thing can illustrate how the Left has come to dominate the Democratic Party than the DNC's own Election Manual calling for "pre-emptive strikes." While I've pointed out how democraticunderground, dKos, Indymedia and other Lefty sites have been open in their refusal to accept any GW win in the election, it pales when seeing in black and white that the DNC concurs with such rank and (yes, I'll say it)un-American moonbattiness. Will L.A.M.E. pick this up? Odds, no. For obvious reasons. But it's going through the blogsphere and the reactions are not pretty. Stephen Green of Vodka Pundit perfectly captured the frustration at the abject contempt the Leftist Democrats have for those who have the temerity not to pledge fealty to John Kerry.
If Drudge has it right, then the Kerry-Edwards campaign is going to do its damnedest to turn our fine nation into a banana republic.To these guys, winning office is more important than the sanctity of elections. Holding power is more important than the Constitution. Much as I despise at least half of what most Republicans stand for, they don't seem nearly as willing to trash the system they're trying to run. Too many Democrats, especially at the national level, just don't care that our system, our nation is far more important than any single election.
I could mention the Lautenberg Trick in New Jersey. Or Gore's ballot shenanigans in Florida. Or the voter-registration fraud currently going on in Colorado, Nevada, and elsewhere. Or the Democrats' successful call to bring election observers into this country. Bring them in from where, Venezuela? Hey, no big deal sullying the reputation of the world's oldest continuously-functioning democracy, just so long as we can make the Republicans look bad, right?
The rules don't matter. The reputation of the country doesn't matter. The political health of the nation doesn't matter. Power matters.
I don't mean to say that Republicans haven't used dirty tricks, or won't in the future. But I have yet to see them pull anything as crass as replacing a losing candidate with a more-popular one just weeks before election day, and in violation of state law. I have yet to see Republicans calling on the world's most corrupt international organization, run largely by apparatchiks from the world's most brutal dictatorships, to pass judgment on how we run our elections. I have yet to see the Republicans encouraging their own to commit fraud by shouting "Fraud!" where none yet exists, putting at risk everything we've built here in the last 228 years.
Because, in the end, that's what the national Democrats are doing: They're trying, however inadvertently, to destroy the Republic in order to rule it.
Read the whole thing. Thank you, Stephen.
Posted by Darleen at October 14, 2004 03:14 PM