It is well written and makes me AGAIN wonder why I allow my father and I to be associated w/ a group that threatens & torments Lars Larson & his family, goes after the Rossi family, believes more in the UN than the US, and bashes our troops...
It is also worth noting that Howard Dean is from Vermont and therefore New England.
I am about to call 1-800-JOIN-WSRP and join up!
Because since when did stealing elections, harassing soldiers, and tormenting spokespeople of the other side become okay?
...since when did stealing elections, harassing soldiers, and tormenting spokespeople of the other side become okay?
These violations of fair play all stem from Mr. Gore's decision in 2000 to attempt to win an election in court. It marked a huge departure from the usual rules of conduct. It showed just how desperate and outside the mainstream the Democratic Party had become. Rather than functioning as an American political party, in its desperation the Democrats had become a revolutionary force.
Stealing elections in America is old hat, and we've winked at such misconduct ever since Aaron Burr founded Tammany Hall in the 1820's. But when the occasional vote stealers were caught, they understood that what they had done was wrong, and they took their punishment like men. Now there are ideological justifications for stealing election, all of them stemming from 2000. Of late we've heard a number of Democrats in this state justify their theft as tit-for-tat because of our "theft" of Florida in 2000. One even dared to write an op-ed in the Seattle Times making this case.
Harassing soldiers is a return to behavior during the late Vietnam era, when most people had given up on that war. Places like Seattle, Berkeley and San Francisco have substantial remnants of that old radicalism still alive and well, whereas most people who behaved that way 35 years ago have some sense of shame for their behavior.
Tormenting spokespeople of the other side is the part of political guerilla warfare that happens just before one side takes up arms and drives the conflict to the next level. We have to go back to the period just before the Civil War to see that behavior in our history.
The more radical elements of the Democratic Party, i.e. the "Deaniacs", are pushing events to the edge of violence. What they've forgotten is that it's their adversaries who have all the guns.