The Democrats are staking their whole run for the presidency this year on the news being bad. For them to unseat a sitting wartime president they need things to go badly. They need the economy to go badly. They need the war to go badly.
I understand you want your guy to win. Hey, it's an election and you're the party out of power. Significantly out of power. The presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate are not in your control. Only the courts and the press. You're miffed and you want power back. I understand that.
I understand that you're still steamed about the election of 2000. Your guy got the most votes and you lost the presidency because of the arcane Electoral College. I get that. You feel robbed. I understand. You even want to grab on to every "Bush Stole the Election" story you can even when the facts don't back you up. You want to yell "Count every vote!" even when all the votes were counted by a media consortium after the election and found that Bush still won. Doesn't matter, you want to be mad. You want to yell "Bush disenfranchised the blacks!" even though civil rights commissions investigated after the election and found that wasn't true. Doesn't matter. You want to be mad. You want the base to be mad. Fine. Hold on to that illogical bitterness if it gets you through the election.
I understand that you want to read every news story in absolutely the most negative light about the Bush administration.
But rooting against the war is going too far. And playing up every "Bush Lied, Kids died" conspiracy is hurting our image abroad when our troops are in harm's way.
Democrats - I implore you. You need to rethink your embrace of every outlandish Michael Moore or Howard Dean charge just because it feeds your hatred of George W. Bush. It really is undermining the war effort. And time eventually exposes the falsity of your claims.
Here are the latest two examples:
1. Bush elevated the security threat level just for political gain last week.
Tom Ridge raised the security threat level in New York. When pressed by the media and partisan Democrats he said that some of the intelligence information was old. The Democrat spin machine suddenly started pumping out the story that the threat wasn't real and that Bush did it for political gain in an election year.
However, the story is slowly coming out. Yes there was old intelligence. But there was also a new arrest of a high level Al Qaida operative in Pakistan with information on his computer that updated the old intelligence. It was a real threat based on a new arrest. Tom Ridge and his team were limited in what the could say without revealing intelligence sources. Democrats played on that and made wild accusations knowing that Ridge would be limited in defending his actions in order to keep intelligence safeguarded. The Democrats actions are despicable and indefensible in wartime.
2. Democrats continue to allege that there was no connection between Iraq and Al Qaida and therefore the invasion of Iraq could not be placed in the scope of the War on Terror.
The danger for the Democrats here is that as more information is made public from Iraq it will support the connection.
Here's an important story in the news this week related to Iraqi funding of Al Qaida using the totally corrupted Food for Oil program. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/8/8/125457.shtml
Bottom line: Democrats - you've got to rethink embracing every outrageous charge against the Bush administration in wartime just to get your guy elected. It's harmful to the country. Stop it.
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