Opposition Politics

Yes, we have discussed this slow boat to an extreme position that the party has taken ... but I think your description is more apt then in any of our previous posts, "opposition politics." The problem with being a purely opposition party of course, is sometimes your opponent is going to be correct, and where does that leave you? I mean "you" in the sense of a Democrat, not Titus.

And its a sound theory - each of those administrations left their respective parties in tatters, and the GOP was fortunate to have a political "savior" if you will. Well done T - and I mean that sincerely, not just because it was a post that anyone familiar with this blog would have assumed had my name at the bottom (i.e. the Reagan compliments and so forth). There has to be some reason for the nonsensical course they're on, and this is as sound as any I have heard.

And perhaps much of this "Obamamania" is due to their wanting that "savior" to finally arrive. The only problem is he's making Democrats feel good about being Democrats (shouts of empty "change"), rather then Americans taking pride in being American.

Speaking of him, for the first time I grew literally, "scared" of an Obama win. He was asked on the Today Show just prior to the Patreaus/Crocker testimony, if he could really just withdrawal troops from Iraq the moment he takes office (and this dove tails with your intolerance of Feingold's position) and he stated quite clearly that he will bring, "one to two brigades home a month and have all US forces removed with 18 months." I just, I honestly can't comprehend how completely out of the realm of rational thought that is. Just to picture what that nation will look like if this occurs is LITERALLY frightening. How many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, have staked their lives, their actual lives on a bet that the United States wont just up and leave? I don't think the word "genocide" is an inappropriate term to evoke here. Set aside that it will be a proxy for an Iran. That it will become an Al Qeda stronghold, and that Musadir will set himself up as the nation's Ayatollah. Don't they realize the death purges that will occur? These people will die.


Let me leave you with one quote I particularly like of JFK, since I agree with your assessment that he was the last of the "iconic root" bearers in that party. I'm certain you've heard it before but it bares repeating. It's from his inaugural address January 20th, 1961...

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This much we pledge—and more."

"... In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. "

Quite a ways away from refusing to wear an American flag pin on your lapel, don't you think? Its a shame... and I mean that sincerely. If each party, not just one, were to embrace these priciples of our obligations to freedom, then nomatter who loses in November, America wins.