Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Shriveled Peas
Mark Steyn says all there is to say about Democrats and their National Security credentials in his recent piece in the Chicago Sun Times.
This portion is priceless, best of Steyn:
In fairness to Kerry, he didn't invent the Democrats' tortured relationship with the military. But ever since Eugene McCarthy ran against Lyndon Johnson and destroyed the most powerful Democrat of the last half-century, the Democratic Party has had a problematic relationship with the projection of power in the national interest. President Jimmy Carter confined himself to one screwed-up helicopter mission in Iran; Bill Clinton bombed more countries in a little more than six months than the Zionist neocon warmonger Bush has in six years but, unless you happened to be in that Sudanese aspirin factory, it was as desultory and uncommitted as his sex life and characterized by the same inability to reach (in Ken Starr's word) "completion." As for John Kerry, since he first slandered the American military three decades ago, he's been wrong on every foreign policy question and voted against every significant American weapons system.
To be sure, like Kerry in 2004 deciding that the murderers and rapists were now his brave "band of brothers," the left often discover a sudden enthusiasm for the previous war once a new one's come along. Since
A shriveled pea. How apt a description for Democratic plans in general, that not even committed liberals want us to read before voting.
Unserious, frivolous, partisan, and weak. No way to go through political life, I’d say.
(Via Instapundit here and here)
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