Lots of good ideas for Dems to run on if they only will {Helen Thomas Moonbat Alert}

Chron.com ^ | June 24, 2006, 1:55AM | HELEN THOMAS

[Popman]

When are the Democrats going to get their act together?

Surely, they are not going to let President Bush's political guru, Karl Rove, snooker them in the mid-term November election campaign as he did in the last two presidential elections.

What is he going to pull out of the hat? Soft on terrorism? Gay marriage? Flag burning? 9-11?

Are the Democrats going to be such easy prey again, neutralized by phony wedge issues and neglectful of the real issue, which is the administration's flagrant use of falsehoods to justify a war of choice?

It could happen again. The leaderless Democrats, speaking in a cacophony, are being outgunned by the conservatives and members of their own party representing the Democratic Leadership Council who are at heart "Republican lite."

The Democrats should campaign on the slogan "It's the war, stupid." Do any of them have the courage to take a stand on the Iraqi quagmire?

There are a handful, including Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a Vietnam veteran who is calling for a speedy U.S. pullout from Iraq. He also took a swipe at Rove on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday for pushing the war while "sitting in his big air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside, saying 'Stay the course.' "

He was responding to Rove's speech in New Hampshire last week in which Rove attacked Democrats for what he called "that party's old pattern of cutting and running."

Rove — who prides himself on being a history buff — obviously did not remember when President Gerald Ford ordered American troops out of Vietnam in April 1975. They departed — some clinging by their fingertips to helicopters — as North Vietnamese forces advanced on Saigon.

[Popman]

After posting such an biased editorial, she should resign from the white house press corp

O.K. I can dream.

[frankjr]

Who is Helen Thomas? Is she hot? Does anyone have a pic to post?

[gov_bean_ counter]

OOOh no. Way too early for that.

[Popman]

As President Bush prepared to visit Europe this week, Die Zeit, a German weekly, declared that Americans have "lost their moral credibility in Iraq."

The newspaper also said "America's entire Iraq policy is out of control."

Of course we should base our war strategy and foreign policy on what a German newspaper says. The democrats seem to want to do just that

[alloysteel]

Dem'crats being Dem'crats - working with Howard Dean's dream of being competitive in all fifty states - they will drizzle away all possibility of winning a majority in either the House or Senate in 2006. Howie, you see, has a much bigger vision, and it may take as long to build as the span between Woodrow Wilson, in 1912, and FDR, in 1932.

Yeah, 2012 sounds about right. All they need, by then, is a major depression and a Herbert Hoover clone they can demonize as the source of all their woes.

[Popman]

We should have a anti Ann Coulter rule: No Helen Thomas pictures allowed under being banned as punishment

[gov_bean_ counter]

obviously did not remember when President Gerald Ford ordered American troops out of Vietnam in April 1975. They departed — some clinging by their fingertips to helicopters — as North Vietnamese forces advanced on Saigon.

I thought Congress pulled the funding on that war.

[Puppage]

[Popman]

Since Helen is a moonbat liberal, history doesn't exist, it starts new everyday according to whatever taking point is prescient for that moment.

Liberalism 101

[Reaganesque]

We still have troops in Germany and Japan. Does that make WWII a quagmire?

[backhoe]

Normally, I avoid anything mentioning That Old Troll, err, the Esteemed Journalist, because of the gawd-awful pictures which inexorabley get posted, but I'm glad I looked.

If this is the best they've got, they're doomed.

[TruthWillWin]

I only checked in here to see the pictures.

(Trying to lose weight)

[Cinnamon]

Dems are toast

[lafroste]

After posting such an biased editorial, she should resign from the white house press corp

Exactly. Such naked (oops, shouldn't use THAT word with helen!) partisanship from a "journalist" is simply appalling.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Coming soon under a bridge near you.

[RedRover]

So is she saying the Democrats had a different policy about Vietnam? More germane to the particular issue is that Murtha spoke out for an immediate withdrawal from Somolia and that directly emboldened the Islamfascists.

[RedRover]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[DugwayDuke]

"The Democrats should campaign on the slogan "It's the war, stupid." Do any of them have the courage to take a stand on the Iraqi quagmire?"

What an interesting choice of words: taking a stand on a quagmire?

[no dems]

"Rove — who prides himself on being a history buff — obviously did not remember when President Gerald Ford ordered American troops out of Vietnam in April 1975."

EXACTLY!! AND EVERYONE OF THE 55,000 AMERICANS WHO DIED IN THAT WAR DIED IN VAIN BECAUSE NIXON CAVED IN TO PRESSURE FROM THE ANTI-WAR CROWD AND PULLED OFF HIS "PEACE WITH HONOR" CRAP.

Sorry for the upper case rant.

[YaYa123]

This shows Helen Thomas' blind ignorance:
" endless war for no known American objective"
There she goes again, denying 9-11, denying the need to protect the country from terrorists.

The following shows Helen's inclination to lie out right in order to smear this administration:
"President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant"

And laughably, Helen urges Democrats to follow the lead of an anti-American German tabloid. She's old, she lives on hatred for President Bush, and I suspect, even among elected Democrats, she's an embarrassment.