Posted on 9/25/2002, 5:01:48 PM by johnqueuepublic
War And Gore
By William A. Mayer
If any of you needed even the tiniest additional clue that Al Gore is neither a smart man nor is he even remotely a world class politician, all you had to do was listen to a bit of his laughably confused reading of the script delivered by him on September 23, in Baghdad by the Bay.
The speech, as wrongheaded as it was in its message, was hobbled by Gore’s punch drunk delivery – he seemingly confused as to exactly which iteration of his personality had shown up.
Would it be the slightly crazed podium stalker we saw in the first presidential debate - leaping up like a bad Peter Sellers character, struggling not to allow his public transformation into Mr. Hyde?
How about the slightly effeminate, Lisping Al - sibilants swishing and popping like so much pink taffeta?
Would it be Rugged Al – draped in Bloomingdale’s best imitation camouflage jacket?
Would it be silly Al, the Daft Campaigner – unaware he is speechifying and raising funds in temples?
Or would it be Stoner Al – dude, like…spouting an eclectic junk science trail mix of granolaisms about climatology?
Or, God help us, would Lover Al be in the house – all buffed up, bulging and pouty-faced salivating for some hot Tipper lip locks?
If you picked from and chose the worst traits of Gore’s multi-personas you would get precisely what showed up, a Frankenstein’s monster barely composed - of warring parts – a befuddled, lisping, droopy haired, near crazed left-winger who, to compound matters, appeared also to be drooling.
Not a pretty visual.
Gore manages, when he lets this side of him show, to remind us why the Democrats are really unfit stewards of our nation. He is the prototypical ideologue that killed the party of Jefferson in McGovern’s 1972 coup de etat.
Gore is demonstrably dim, continually getting facts wrong, flip flopping, making outlandish claims and then backpedaling, clumsily. At the same time he is monstrously self important – seeming to know, as befits the most committed central planners, the best government solution for every problem.
Yet he has a sector of the population convinced that he is bright, even…dare we say…an intellectual.
Stop laughing, it is unfortunately true.
Call them the “Stupid Sector” and they and their wholly appropriate candidate feed on each other, as do the Harpies in the press who serve as the real storm troopers, massaging a bad act into something hopefully a bit more palatable.
Gore has a lot of undealt with issues still clattering around his psyche regarding the election, it has unhinged him in large part.
He is angry, it comes through in his herky jerky body language and in his vague references, he’s not attacking GW Bush…others are…people who say they are our friends… he is just repeating them, for historical accuracy perhaps?
Gore says he feels “betrayed” by GHW Bush because the former president – followed the intent of the coalition and governing UN resolutions, and did not push on to Baghdad.
Gore neglects to mention, as does the media, that he was not even a genuine supporter of the Gulf effort having sold his Desert Storm vote to Bob Dole for the crass coin of television face time.
This is what passes for leadership in today’s Democrat party.
Protestations to the contrary, Gore’s San Francisco Iraq address was, from the get go, a calculated politically motivated partisan and unjustifiable attack on every aspect of the Bush administration.
“From the outset, the administration has operated in a manner calculated to please the portion of its base that occupies the far right, at the expense of solidarity among all of us as Americans…the president is on the campaign trail two or three days a week, often publicly taunting Democrats with the consequences of a no vote [on the Iraq war]. The Republican National Committee is running pre-packaged advertising based on the same theme…apparently in keeping with a political strategy clearly described in a White House aide's misplaced computer disk which advised Republican operatives that their principal game plan for success in the election a few weeks away was to, quote, "focus on the war…Vice President Cheney, meanwhile, has indignantly described suggestions of any such thing as reprehensible.”
The misplaced alleged errant computer disk aside – why do these things always seem to surface through the Democrats? – Gore is livid that the necessity of defending the United States against aggressive terrorist states is proving politically popular.
If nothing else the speech is schizophrenic:
“Now, I believe that this is unfortunate, because in the immediate aftermath of September 11th, more than a year ago, we had an enormous reservoir of good will and sympathy and shared resolve all over the world. That has been squandered in a year's time and replaced with great anxiety all around the world, not primarily about what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.”
(APPLAUSE from the Stupid Sector chastening us to have stoked this “reservoir of good will” by doing nothing to offend the religion and culture that attacked us - therefore incurring a nuclear or bio weapon hit in short order.)
You can almost see the wheels smoking in his head, “No, its not me saying these terrible things about Bush, It’s other people, folks who claim to be our friends, and they may be our friends, I just don’t know…I was a reporter in Vietnam and I’m just the messenger, right?”
The fatal problem with Gore, Daschle, Kerry, Biden, Leahy, Kennedy and the rest of the anti-military Democrat leadership is that deep down inside they know that their party’s credibility was destroyed in Vietnam.
It has not recovered.
During that fiasco they proved themselves half-hearted, conflicted and ineffectual warriors, at best.
The flames from their public humiliation at the hands of Uncle Ho have seared them frightfully. To the extent that not only are the current crop of Democrats unable to identify military threats when they exist, but are incapable of effectively dealing with them when and if spotted.
And lest Gore be charged with simply playing politics - which he is - it goes much deeper.
You see for at least 30 years the Democrats have sought accommodation with the unthinkable, they wanted peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union, not their defeat.
They fought Reagan placing Pershing missiles in Germany to counter aggressive Soviet moves, they supported the Nuclear Freeze movement - a movement riddled with Soviet propagandists - they refused to see the danger of communism in our own hemisphere, currying favor with people like Daniel Ortega and Fidel and ignoring the Monroe Doctrine.
They did not want to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Blinded by moral relativism they feel that one political system is just about the same as any other, different strokes for different folks. Their squishy belief structure does not support a functioning moral compass.
This is Gore’s heritage – raised like a hot house flower in a Washington hotel room, prepared away from public scrutiny and spoon fed the most far left party line, groomed to be its messenger – delivering the same garbled weasel words of appeasement offered by Chamberlain, McGovern, Carter, Dukakis and Clinton.
This is a message of surrender to the enemies of the United States and as such it is proving to be simply unacceptable to the majority of Americans.
This is a message of surrender to the enemies of the United States and as such it is proving to be simply unacceptable to the majority of Americans.
The RATs need to remember that the Attacks on 9-11-01 changed everything....Americans now realize that the 'talk and do nothing' strategy of Clinton, Gore, Daschel, et al is dangerous....it can mean death to many of us in a future more lethal attack!
Gore is utterly unprincipled.
I pray Daschle's meltdown gets some of the RATs kicked out of the Senate! Americans want our national security to come first......I believe that most realize that is what President Bush wants as well.
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