Posted on 08/12/2002 7:04:05 AM PDT by johnqueuepublic
Bush’s September Surprise
By William A. Mayer, Editor & Publisher - PipeBombNews
Imagine back, only a few short months past - that awful moment.
Maybe you were already at your job, maybe you were dropping the kids off at school – if you were like me, you had Fox News on in the background only to be confronted with the surreal and macabre image of a chubby looking airliner sharply banking and then soundlessly gliding towards the World Trade Center.
Eruption.
First the shock, the bludgeoning hammer between the eyes - then the realization of what had transpired, then anger – hot, molten and loosed from its crucible.
Still so hard to believe.
Sometimes it seems never to have happened, a dark recurrent dream perhaps.
But yet the dead remain in their final resting places – nearly atomized, jerked from life by an insane religion of death - and the anger is still there, seething for recompense; demanding blood.
We have not killed nearly enough of them yet, a small down payment has been made, at best.
But now September 11, 2002 is nigh upon us and now starts an inexorable process whereby, slowly, the disgraced party of Clinton is finding its loathsome policies becoming - correctly - branded as the tinder, which lit the World Trade Center conflagration.
September 11 will forever hereafter be a reminder, appearing - like Banquo’s ghost in Macbeth, just 50-odd days before the election; forever tormenting the party, which has lost its soul.
Of course the Republicans, in their usual ham-fisted effort to appear fair, will do their best to screw up the association, but it is [thank goodness] out of their hands in large measure
Public opinion has already moved significantly in that direction and, as time passes and events transpire – the upcoming war with Iraq for example – Clinton’s wanton decimation of the US military, his steadfast refusal to address the US Embassy bombings by Al Qaeda in Kenya and Tanzania, the outrage in Mogadishu, the USN Cole attack - not to mention Clinton’s refusing Sudan’s offer of Bin Laden’s head on a platter - will be cast as his legacy.
The Democrat party leadership knows this, deep in their wallets, and that is why they have been running around like speed crazed weasels nip-nip-nipping at George W’s heels in search of something damaging with “traction” for the spin monkeys to dance to.
The useful idiots in the media – Time Inc. being only the most recent and brazen example [featuring a wholly made up story possibly having been penned - under the influence of cooking sherry - by Maddie Albright herself] – stand poised to inject more lies in perpetuation of “salt the earth” politics.
However effective it may appear short term, this trench warfare has damaged the Democrat's reputation and the blowback has tarnished the media stooges who, like the NY Times' Howell Raines, publish garbage under the guise of journalism.
It may not be apparent, a sea change in public perception does not happen overnight, but the Democrats are circumscribing themselves within increasingly smaller, more radical, circles.
Moderate Democrats with some sense of pre-Carter history are becoming less and less likely to vote for candidates who appear to be heading endlessly farther left, and the real swing vote - higher income voters who, though conservative monetarily, are only marginally concerned about the culture war and who have voted for liberal national candidates – are not going to let social philosophy dictate their voting patterns as the Democrats crank up the class warfare, big spending parade, while at the same time impeding the war on terror.
The Democrat party is diseased, its base has eroded and the only effective weapon they have is fear - but it's not the genuine article - it is manufactured.
As America becomes conditioned to real fear, learns what it actually is - a process which started last September – the sinister pipe dream scenarios mongered by the Democrats about Social Security, Medicare and Republicans dragging black people to death behind pickup trucks, becomes less motive.
People are able to put relative fears in perspective, ranking potential fiery death in a high rise or a nuclear detonation in a major city far above that of some far-off economic worry.
Of course it may not happen - Churchill was unceremoniously booted out of office in 1945, cast aside in the mad European rush to embrace the very philosophy the Allies had just defeated - such is the quirky nature of public opinion.
Will 9-11 become the albatross around the neck of the American left?
Events are conspiring to make that a very distinct possibility, with a little shove from the right it may well be inevitable.
© 2002 PipeBombNews.com, all rights reserved.
I wish that I shared this writer's optimism. Unfortunately, there are many voters who still let the NY Times or Peter Jennings or even Conan O'Brien tell them what the facts are and whom they should elect. Those too lazy to research the facts form the base of the Rat party, and they will not be pulled away easily.
If the work of the Democrats over the last 50 years isn't enough to have them marched out into the street and shot, then nothing is.
GWB bent over backwards to avoid politicizing the war against terrorism, and the fruits of that effort will be seen in the election. I'm not the slightest bit optimistic about November '02. Anybody care to place bets?
Don'tcha mean the DNC?
Someone just skimming headlines would think that GW is up to no good.
You really need to go back to LBJ to get to anyone in the democratic party who is/was pro-military. The 68 convention in Chicago was a coup by the radical left. And they are still in control of the party.
Agree! But, IMO the GOP(and the right in general) really has a talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I have made that statement many times in those exact words. It is like a quote from me in this article. I hope the author speaks for millions, not just me.
That is exactly right. There are a couple of people like Zell Miller, Scoop Jackson, and Ike Skelton, but most of them are pariah's in thei own party.
What a picture...hehehehe... Spin "monkeys" ...heheheheh....
LOL -- "Conan O'Brien"??
Yes. Whether the Republicans capitalize or not, the Left has been severely damaged in its Holy Trinity of anti-capitalism, racism, and anti-Americanism. The GOP may not get it . . . yet . . . but political nature abhors a vacuum and some smart politicians WILL step in.
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