Pundit Review’s good friend Bill Lalor proprieor of Citizen Journal Blog has this fantastic peice published in the American Thinker on the Bolton Confirmation Hearing.
He explains clearly how Karl Rove could not have hoped for a better gift than the anticipated opposition to Bolton’s nomination. It’s stuff like this that gives me hope that in spite of a dispirited conservative base that the Republicans will hold on to their Congressional majorities. Liberals just don’t get the average Americans who they claim to represent.
Senator Christopher Dodd, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, took the lead and promised a â??bruising fightâ? in the event President Bush has the temerity to re-nominate Bolton. â??The problems still persist,â? Dodd explained, vaguely. Senator Doddâ??s comments were significant on two levels. First, in terms of crass political calculus, it seems clear that as we head into Novemberâ??s elections, Boltonâ??s re-nomination is perceived by Democrats as an opportunity to castigate the President (whatever might be â??good for the countryâ? places a distant second). Once again, Demsâ?? myopic zeal to destroy President Bush blinds them to an inconvenient truth: most Americans appreciate Boltonâ??s principled, unambiguous approach to diplomacy. In the end, Republicans stand to gain from each time Senator Doddâ??s internationalist sentiment is repeated. More significant, though, is a point that may have been unintentional.
Read entire article here.