Posted on 08/20/2006 3:17:03 PM PDT by FairOpinion
IN the 1960s, my sister was part of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. She was arrested in a civil rights sit-in. Naturally, she was a lifelong Democrat.
Today, she is a “9-11 Republican.” She is not alone.
My sister is no less committed to civil rights than before. But she believes that not being murdered by Islamist terrorists is also an important civil right. She is not sure that the Democratic Party completely agrees with her.
For 9-11 Republicans, this is the most significant political issue. The GOP “gets it,” while the Democratic Party doesn't.
Many recent former Democrats are astonished and a bit embarrassed to see where they have landed politically. The rest of the Republican program may leave them cold. They may have doubts about Bush's handling of the war, treatment of prisoners and everything else. But unless and until the Democratic Party fixes its national-security problem, my sister and others like her will not vote Democratic in November's congressional races, nor in the 2008 presidential contest.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailynews.com ...
"Paul Kujawsky is a member of the California Democratic Party Central Committee."
The excerpt is the front part of the article, then he proceeds to explain that the Dems need to adopt a platform:
"While not the only issue facing America, this war is the single most important issue of our generation.
We must unequivocally win this war, however long it takes. "
This is EXACTLY the Republican platform. The Dems must do at least a "me too", but they are doing exactly the opposite, doing everything they can to hinder us in our pursuit of the War on Terror.
Even some of hte Dems are starting to see this and that the American people will vote to LIVE, which means vote for Republicans, because the Dem policies will kill us all.
Was the article written before W negotiated a cease fire between Israel and Hezbullah with France?
I believe that more and more Democrats will be expressing these same sentiments.
With the Dem moonbats kicking Joe Lieberman out of the party, they also kicked the rest of the moderate Dems out with him.
French and living up to their word rarely collide in the same sentance.
It's holding up -- France hasn't fired on either.
The Bush haters would rather see us living as Dhimmis than admit that he is right about ANYTHING concerning the War on Terror.
---She is not sure that the Democratic Party completely agrees with her. ---
LOL, you just cant make-up this stuff folks. lol
They don't just hate Bush, he is simply the most visible symbol of what they hate most: westerm civilization
"The Bush haters would rather see us living as Dhimmis than admit that he is right about ANYTHING concerning the War on Terror islam."
There; now it's correct.
It's all about political power and their lack of it. There's nothing more amusing than watching Dem operatives recite their talking points with that look that says even they don't believe what they're saying.
Make no mistake, Dems will claim the mantle of nabbing bin Laden once in power and will wave the war flag high.
This is the big variable the MSM is leaving out in its prognosticating about the November elections. And Dems. rejoicing over a liberal judge halting NSA wiretaps, the very week it was discovered they helped to unravel the London airline plots, will only reinforce in voters' minds that the Democratic party is more anti-Bush than they are anti-terrorist. They'll gain little ground in November as a result.
Another concept the Democrats need to wrap their minds around is the fact that United States citizens are not going to vote for politicians who bet against the home team.
We are not at war with Islam, only the radical murdering terrorists, who use Islam as an excuse. Just the way the Nazis and communists used their ideology as an excuse to murder and subjugate people, the terrorists are trying to justify their subhuman actions with Islam.
Indonesia has a large Muslim population and most of them are very peaceful.
I'd like all that right here, too.
Islam does justify the subhuman actions of the terrorists.
The author is completely correct and has next to no chance of seeing what he wants to have happen occur. Which is a shame.
Liberal base = Al-queda sympathizers
Wrong. islam is the enemy of Western Civilization.
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/15227
You can deny that all you want, F. History will show that as fact in coming years. The so-called radicals are merely the visible tip of the iceberg. So-called 'peaceful muslims' are simply afraid to stand-up and voice their opinion. Their trash manual of death, the unholy koran/curan or whatever, clearly states what the horror of islam, is really all about.
If you're unable to identify the enemy, you're going to lose this war.
Nazism and communism theology use murder and subjugation as routine means of population control; history validates that fact.
Indonesia is a sewer and will explode once the murderous muslim-islamic-arabs gain complete control and begin exercising their murderous and subjugational controls over the entire population. Watch for it. Pol Pot's 'killing fields' will pale in comparison to what's coming.
As opposed to what we have now, which is raiding all individuals, and forcing them to live a communal lifestyle? Why, yes, of course I am, lol.
Essentially he is saying that Democrats need to flap their jaws and do nothing.
So you raid all individuals and force them to live a communal lifestyle?
"So you raid all individuals and force them to live a communal lifestyle?"
If a group of people want to freely associate and live a communal life, without reaching into my pocket to do so, that is perfectly acceptable to me, so long as I am not forced to participate.
We can only hope and pray. Ironically, the nation's future may depend on the integrity of disaffected 'rats, while disaffected pubbies stay home in a snit.
In other words as long as they don't force people in it or force people to stay in it again their will then you accept it?
53% of Dems are centrists. I don't buy that junk. Just look at how many votes Kerry received in 2004. Polls that ask questions about ones self-professed political ideology are ususally well off the mark. I'd say the vast majority of Democrats are liberal, with at least a 1/4 being ultra liberal. I'd be surprised if 10% of Dems fall into the catagory of strict conservative standards. 5% sounds more reasonable.
Communism is not perfectly acceptable to ME. If other people wish to freely associate and live a communal life, without forcing me to participate, either personally or monetarily, then that is their choice and it does not affect me. But, of course, Communism in practice is the antithesis of free association, isn't it?
Now, on to Nazism. How does your logic exercise hold up in this instance?
This is an insight that needs to be announced loudly and clearly and repeatedly. To take it a step further, if you are politically afraid to name the enemy publicly, even if you know who it is, you stand to lose this war. The people won't support a war against an abstraction (as George Bush is learning, belatedly and to his dismay.)
Those members of Islam who remain silent in their opposition are in essence implying their support of those who actually do the killing.
You are giving far too much credit to too many who are guilty in some forms.
If someone wants to not associate with people of other ethnic backgrounds that is his or her business. If they want to marry only with in a very small gene pool I will not force them to do otherwise.
How would their doing that effect you?
Great cartoon, G! Good catch!!
"How would their doing that effect you?"
Now we're getting somewhere. The notion that murder and subjugation, in Nazism and Communism, were somehow the purview of an isolated set of fanatics is the falsehood in the original analogy. Murder and subjugation, when directed at me, will affect me greatly, perhaps to the point that there would be no "me" to engage in tit-for-tat rationalizations on internet message boards.
And now, let's go full circle, back to Islam, shall we?
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Granted but we are talking absent those things.
And yes there are some groups that absent those things do follow those philosphies.
How do they effect you?
Here in Maine our ""republican"" senator (yes she deserves 2 sets of quotation marks) is up for re-election but is secure so Im focusing on the governor race and also supporting the candidate running against Tom Allen.
But if your state is secure this election year there are other republican candidates in other states that could use your support.
"Granted but we are talking absent those things."
This constitutes a logical fallacy concerning Islam. Subjugation or murder ... why does this sound so familiar in the context of Muslim belief? Could it be that, since the very definition of "Islam" is "submission," and that since the Koran admonishes believers to kill all nonbelievers, in more than just a few instances, that subjugation or murder is the foundation of the religion, as it relates to the world outside of Islam, referred to as "Dar es Harb" or the world of war? What Muslim groups do not follow these "philosophies?" For that matter, what Nazi groups do not?
I know some life long democrats who are very unhappy with the democrat party. They are all socially moderate also, so a big tent philosophy would appeal to them.
What Muslim groups do not follow these "philosophies?"
Just off the top of my head the Druze are a sect of Islam that does not.
Big mistake.
Druze: Religious community generally considered to be Muslim but whose practices also contain elements of Christianity and paganism.
Democrats: The Party of 'Cut N Paste'. (From the Republican Playbook).
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