Why Kerry Must Lose

[faithincowboys]

Why Kerry Must Lose

From a slender red book called A Cultural History of the United States: The 1980s:

The collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest victory for freedom and democracy since the end of World War II.

In the United States, some credited the hard-line anticommunist policies of President Reagan. Others pointed to the weaknesses inherent in the Soviet economic system. Former Soviet general Oleg Kalugin said, "American policy of the 1980s was a catalyst for the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, Strobe Talbot, offers another perspective:

The difference from the [Soviet] standpoint between a conservative Republican administration and a liberal Democratic administration was not that great. The Soviet Union collapsed: the Cold War ended almost overwhelmingly because of internal contradictions or pressures within the Soviet system itself. And even if Jimmy carter had been reelected and been followed by Walter Mondale, something like what we have now seen probably would have happened.

** Doubtless, Mr. Talbot is on a short list for something in a possible Kerry administration-- probably Undersecretary of appeasement. What a chilling prospect!

If Mr. Talbot believes that the Soviets were indifferent between an assertive Republican President and a virtuoso of incompetency like Carter or a softie like Mondale, he is more dangerous than I thought.

I wouldn't want an administration in the White House who used Talbot to procure paper clips, let alone shape foreign policy. The man is incomprehensibly, bizarrely stupid. Anyone who believes or even says he believes that a second helping of Carter malaise and four years of tax hikes and feckless foreign policy from Mondale would have netted the same result as Reagan is deranged.

[faithincowboys]

The fact that Dick Holbrooke is slated to be his Sec of State should the American people go brainless and elect him President is reason to worry.

[faithincowboys]

Sandy Berger will also be tapped-- that guy is a freakin disaster.

[TheBigB]

Bill Clinton as Secretary of Barbecue.

[faithincowboys]

No doubt. I don't know about you, but the Clinton idiots are the last people I want in charge right now. It's just not safe to vote Democrat, not least of all because their bench reeks so bad.

[AM2000]

Don't forget Kerry's statement that we can't fight Communism all over the world.

The man is a defeatist. The wrong kind of Command in Chief for times like this.

[faithincowboys]

Kerry is exactly who we don't need right now. the people he would put in positions of influence are scary. i can't imagine anybody wanting to vote for kerry.

By the way, if you're not too busy. Give me a hit (see tagline) and mail me any constructive criticism you might have. Thanks.

[AM2000]

I noticed you don't have FR on your list of links. I think you should :-D

And put something in there about Kerry being ready to "give up" against the Communists. If he was so willing to give up then, wouldn't he be willing to give up just as easily now? AQ is freaking crazy, they're bound to do something crazy eventually, we can't have a President who'll call it quits and pronounce, in that oh-so-intellectual tone of his that we simply "caaant" fight AQ.

[faithincowboys]

Yeah, I need to expand my links.

I definitely need to. Do you have Kerry's exact quote. Did you see the post that shows that in 2002 Theresa Heinz Kerry was #391 on the Forbes list of 400 Richest Americans and this guy has the stones to think people who make
$200,000 a yr are rich. I really think the gigolo needs to stop waging class warfare-- he is such a full of it mook. And the JFK impersonation has to stop--NOW!

[AM2000]

"They are not a free people, and we cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now....

Source: http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html

We did end up fighting Communism as much as we could, and we won. We didn't give up, even though Kerry thought we should. People who think they're intellectuals can be so cowardly.

[faithincowboys]

Excellent. Kerry is a total nightmare, what an appeasenik. He needs to quit politics all together-- what a disgrace!

[Truth29]

Don't know if it is a bandwith problem, but I couldn't get into your site. I received a return message that "the site was too busy to use right now."

[AM2000]

I call Kerry an "appeaser" and I see peoples eyes glaze over. The word is loaded with WW2 symbolism but most people are too unaware to get it.

When I refer to him as "willing to quit" a fight we eventually won, people seem to get it. Well, my friends anyway.

Words matter.

[Bullish]

Liberals like Talbot are deluded and dumb. There's no better way to desribe their idocy.

[faithincowboys]

You're right. That is an excellent way to break it down for people. Kerry wants to quit and run from Iraq.

Did you happen to catch the Countdown with Keith Olbermann (I Know!!) it had footage from a CIA drone of Osama in Afghanistan in oct 2000 (before the Cole in Decand 9-11). The CIA had a clear shot on Osama and his top guys, but the CIA was under WHite House orders to take osama alive. Olbermann of course blamed the GOP's congress impeachment of Clinton (even though the clear shot happened after the scandal fizzled in Oct 2000). Olbermann and the hack Wash. Post Editor he had on said that Clinton couldn't do it because it was on the eve of the Presidential election.

It's funny, the Left always provides excuses for Clinton. 9-11 is Clinton's legacy and the partisan media covers for him. If this fact were better known-- the Kerry candidacy would have no chance at all.

[AM2000]

9-11 is Clinton's legacy and the partisan media covers for him. If this fact were better known-- the Kerry candidacy would have no chance at all.

I'm not sure that's necessarily true. From where I am, the vast majority of votes for Kerry are actually going to be votes against Bush. So that goes to the problems many voters have with Bush. That's Iraq, and the Economy. If Bush can find those WMD and if hiring speeds up (the only economic indicator that actually matters), he'll be a shoo-in for 2004. I do not think Bill Clinton will be relevant in November at all.

[faithincowboys]

In the 4 months after 9-11, 1,000,000 Americans lost their jobs. 9-11 clearly had a terrible impact on our economy and the national employment figures.

Would we be in Iraq had 9-11 not happened?

Should we trust a party who didn't pull the trigger on our Nation's #1 enemy when it had a chance?? These are fair questions. Clinton's miserable legacy should prevent a Kerry presidency.

[Enduring Freedom]

No worries.

Spread the news.

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[Enduring Freedom]

Just love the title of this thread.

Let's see more of it.

BUMP!

[AM2000]

Would we be in Iraq had 9-11 not happened?

Very possibly. Bush did say, during the campaign in 2000, that if he found out that Saddam was building WMD's, that he'd "take 'em out".

The best case scenario for Iraq right now, as it relates to the Bush re-election campaign, is that Iraq quickly normalize and get out of the news. That means fewer attacks on US troops and fewer fatalities. To an extent, that already seems to be happening (somewhat). Once out of the news cycle, it may not matter as much. But tying the two together (9/11 and Iraq) won't wash with the independents out there who are sceptical of Bush's whole Iraq rationale to begin with. The partisans will buy it, but Bush already has their votes.

[faithincowboys]

But the independents must realize that Bush was hardly alone. It was a bipartisan belief that Saddam had weapons. Mr. Kerry can hardly be the hero of the antiwar independents. He also said Saddam had WMD. Yes, Kerry fled from his vote and stiffed the troops-- I can't imagine independents think that is acceptable.