What a great pleasure to communicate directly with the DNC. In the mail last week, the 2008 Presidential Survey. Seems they want my help chosing a campaign strategy.
Several questions were illustrative of the post-Clinton Democratic Party. Here’s the first offense,
How many times are they going to push this thoroughly discredited meme? It has been exposed as dishonest and cynical by the likes of the Columbia Journalism Review, Annenberg Political Fact Check and the Washington Post Fact Check blog.
Once again, here’s what McCain said, in context,
Questioner: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for fifty years…
McCain: Maybe a hundred. Make it one hundred. We’ve been in South Korea, we’ve been in Japan for sixty years. We’ve been in South Korea for fifty years or so. That’d be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. Then it’s fine with me. I would hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
I’m left wondering if the DNC thinks their constituents are stupid? At a minimum, they must assume that they aren’t paying attention.
Ah yes, the Swift Boat attack. Here’s a question for Howard Dean: How likely is it that the Democrats have been questioning John McCain’s military service for months?
ABC News
April 08, 2008“Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, who has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said that Sen. John McCain “has a temper” and, according to the story, “believes McCain has become insensitive to many human issues.
McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues.”
Dem Guru: McCain ‘Limited’ by POW Years
June 30, 2008
ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Molly Hunter Report: While Barack Obama was urging supporters not to devalue the military service of rival John McCain, an informal Obama adviser argued Monday that the former POW’s isolation during the Vietnam War has hobbled the Arizona senator’s capacity as a war-time leader.
“Sadly, Sen. McCain was not available during those times, and I say that with all due respect to him,” said informal Obama adviser Rand Beers. “I think that the notion that the members of the Senate who were in the ground forces or who were ashore in Vietnam have a very different view of Vietnam and the cost that you described than John McCain does because he was in isolation essentially for many of those years and did not experience the turmoil here or the challenges that were involved for those of us who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam war.”
“So I think,” he continued, “to some extent his national security experience in that regard is sadly limited and I think it is reflected in some of the ways that he thinks about how U.S. forces might be committed to conflicts around the world.”
No need to even get into Wesley Clark. Steve Huntley of the Chicago Sun Times informs the DNC of how effective this strategy is likely to be,
It was perverse — not to mention tone-deaf and foolish — for Barack Obama’s supporters to pick the week of July Fourth to attack John McCain’s military background. The cliche rings true: With political friends like these, Obama doesn’t need enemies.
The next question was about the GOP’s “Voter Supression Schemes”. Thankfully I have alerted the DNC to the Supreme Court ruling this session on the Voter ID requirement. Seems it is not cruel and unusual to require a valid identification in order to cast vote in a U.S. election. By a 6-3 margin, the Supreme Court uphelp this draconian limitation on illegal immigrants, er, “potential voters”. Here is the AP summary of the case,
Said states can require would-be voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights. The 6-3 ruling validated Republican-inspired voter ID laws. Democrats and civil rights groups had argued that laws requiring voters to produce photo identification in order to cast ballots violate the Constitution. The court disagreed, upholding Indiana’s strict photo ID requirement.
Opponents had argued that the Indiana law could deter poor, elderly and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said the photo ID law was needed to deter electoral fraud. The justices agreed that states can take such steps to protect “the integrity and reliability of the electoral process,” as long as they don’t impose “excessively burdensome requirements” on any class of voters.
More than 20 states require some form of identification at the polls. The opinion came a week before Indiana’s presidential primary. (Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, 07-21, Indiana Democratic Party v. Rokita, 07-25)
The DNC, and their candidate, are willing say anything they need to in order to get elected. They are, in fact, the Old Politics they claim to detest.
What will it take to get the moonbat out of the Democratic Party? Perhaps blowing the most gift wrapped election in history? We can only hope.