[goldstategop]

The liberal ostriches bury their heads in the sand, preferring not to notice just how well things are going in Iraq. Mark Steyn has coined a new term to describe the Cut and Run Democrats lack of support for history's largest experiment in democracy-building: Defeaticrats. With all the cliches they're throwing around, you'd think al Zarqawi was standing on a mountain of American corpses. The Iraqi people will put all this self-flagellating braggadocio to rest when they vote again on Dec. 15th. The Purple Finger Revolution keeps chugging on despite the Defeaticrats' best efforts to discredit it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[goldstategop]

New Steyn Kerryism: "[I was] against the benchmarks before I was for them." Priceless!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[mal]

Already posted

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533688/posts

[backhoe]

Mark Steyn first came to my attention when he was Media Critic/Commentator for the old American Spectator. I usually find movie review columns to be nearly worthless for determining the watchability of movies or TV show- his was an exception, and he was always interesting to read.

He jumped further up in my estimation with an article in the Wall Street Journal during the Clinton nastiness titled "In Defense of Tabloid Sleaze," in which he took his fellow journalists to task for their faux outrage and curious lack of curiousity about "the most powerful man in the world being caught with his pants around his ankles."

A later WSJ column, "My Life is Not a Game" pointed out that all the machinations in Washington, and elsewhere, have real-world consequences that affect real people- like Steyn and his family- and were not merely some silly game of "gotchas" put on for the amusement of the chattering classes on TV.

[RoadTest]

Murtha has lost it. He's demented. Lieberman - there's something likeable about him.

[samtheman]

The Defeaticrats were against the benchmarks before they were for them.

They take a position. Change their position. Lie about ever having had different positions. And the media works with them hand-in-glove. And a few people on Fox News call them on it, in a disorganized way... but they're drowned out by the overall tone of Fox News these days, which is to be more balanced than dedicated to getting the story out.

This is the biggest story since WWII. How a political party and the media are conspiring to lie to the American people. And though there are plenty of people writing about it, like Steyn, and a few people talking about it on Fox, on the whole, this story is being covered up. Certainly on network TV its being covered up. Completely.

It will disappear down the memory hole. History departments in every university in the Western World (not to mention the Arab World) are busy rewriting history. It's a work-in-progress. The whole sordid history of the defeaticrats which includes their loud denunciation of benchmarks followed by their loud braying demand for benchmarks (after the benchmarks were already achieved), is being covered up by the media and rewritten by the historians.

It's a conspiracy. Not centrally led, but a conspiracy of like-mindedness. The biggest conspiracy of the modern era.

[Watery Tart]

Unexcerpted Ping!

[manwiththehands]

It must be awful lonely being Joe Lieberman in the Democratic Party these days.

It it were not for Lieberman's vote against impeaching Clinton I would be tempted to think that Senator Lieberman might be the only principled man remaining in the entire Senate.

Maybe he is still growing up, and has learned that principled people can handle the loneliness.

(MWTH thinks to himself: "listen to me. The only Senator I can say one decent thing about is a Democrat")

[ricks_place]

Hey Senator Joe, come into the light; escape from the dark side.

The Republicans have a big tent that holds everyone from Ronnie to Rudy.

[Gritty]

bttt

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That man is a pleasure to read! Defeaticrats! I love it! :)

[lawgirl]

Toppling Saddam was worth doing in and of itself.

Exactly. Everyone deserves to live free of fear of their own government- whether they are russian or north korean or chinese or rwandan. Everyone deserves freedom and the difference between us and them is that we believe that freedom is what people really truly long for. And I think it is a worthy cause to help people achieve a life where they are limited only by their own dreams and ambition, without fear of speaking their mind.

[mylife]

And here's where the scale of the Bush gamble becomes clear. Islam and "the West" have a long history. And, without rehashing the last millennium and a half, the Muslim conquest of Europe and then the Crusades and the fall of Andalusia, if you take out a map of the world and look at the rise of the European empires you notice a curious thing: in conquering the world the imperial powers for the most part simply bypassed the Islamic world. They made Africa and South Asia and Latin America and everywhere else seats of European power, but they left the Middle East alone. And, even when they eventually got their hands on the region, after the First World War, they made no serious attempt to reform the neighborhood. We live with the consequences of that today.

Thank God GWB is unwilling to accept the status quo. Quite honestly the europeans made a complete mess of the middle east after WWI and GWB was unwilling to continue along with the consequences of thier actions/inactions

[Irish_Thatcherite]

And here's where the scale of the Bush gamble becomes clear. Islam and "the West" have a long history. And, without rehashing the last millennium and a half, the Muslim conquest of Europe and then the Crusades and the fall of Andalusia, if you take out a map of the world and look at the rise of the European empires you notice a curious thing: in conquering the world the imperial powers for the most part simply bypassed the Islamic world. They made Africa and South Asia and Latin America and everywhere else seats of European power, but they left the Middle East alone. And, even when they eventually got their hands on the region, after the First World War, they made no serious attempt to reform the neighborhood. We live with the consequences of that today.

That is true.

[hattend]

BTTT

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Defeaticrats were against the benchmarks before they were for them.

Democrats: The American surrender donkeys.

[300winmag]

Not the media and certainly not Lieberman's colleagues in the Defeaticrat Party.

I had to read that five times before it dawned on me the word was not "defecate". Although either way makes a lot of sense.

[FairOpinion]

An excellent article.

I think we should start using "defeaticrats" as a key word for articles dealing with their demands to cut and run.

[FreedomNeocon]

Steyn ZING!

But Kerry drones that we need to "set benchmarks" for the "transfer of authority."

Actually, the administration's been doing that for two years -- setting dates for the return of sovereignty, for electing a national assembly, for approving a constitution, etc, and meeting all of them. And all during those same two years Kerry and his fellow Democrats have huffed that these dates are far too premature, the Iraqis aren't in a position to take over, hold an election, whatever.

The Defeaticrats were against the benchmarks before they were for them.

[shield]

I Love Mark.... Defeaticrats'