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« Today's Reading List | Main | Liberty Church » December 3, 2005It Moved MeDavid All, communications Director U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Georgia, Vice-Chairman of the House Republican Conference, reports that MoveOn.org's anti-war ads in the Congressman's district have proved a flop. All writes: So I wanted to follow-up with you to give you the results of MoveOn.org's efforts... Drumroll please....Has any political organization ever raised and spent as much as MoveOn with so little to show for it? Posted in War on Terror
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Oh they have something to show for it: The Democrats really are the best reason to vote Republican. Bush is a horrible president on domestic issues but everyone the Democrats have put forward is at least an order of magnitude worse. If only the Dem's would put forth a Joe Lieberman type of candidate then maybe the Rupublicans would have to put forth a conservative candidate. Posted by: Ross at December 4, 2005 4:02 PMI want to be angry with these guys, but I find myself asking whether we could have any better, more effective allies. Posted by: Jonathan at December 4, 2005 4:04 PMDemocrats--- the best reason to vote Republican! That is so true. Many times the only reason if truth be told. Posted by: dougf at December 4, 2005 4:32 PMI love it when a plan comes together. Posted by: John at December 4, 2005 4:47 PMSadly, truer words haven't been spoken in a long time. Posted by: countertop at December 4, 2005 5:03 PMJoe: I'd say Democrats are the ONLY reason to vote Republican, which demonstrates my disappointment at the sad state of politics in this country. Posted by: jf at December 4, 2005 5:22 PMAnecdotal evidence that Soros, Kos, and MoveOn et.al. are becoming tiresome bores: On Manhattan's Upper West Side, a virtual bubble-universe of collectivist, Statist sentiment, I increasingly encounter unsolicited rants against "Bush-ocracy", "Bush robots" (our American troops), Bush as crazed Evangelical, Bush as corrupt Oil Magnate-- Bush this, Bush that. These ventings are so totally lacking in substance, so absurdly without logic or any sense of political give-and-take, that one has to conclude: The Left has lost it. Outwardly normal, educated, functional intelligences have succumbed to a bi-polar disorder rooted in narcissism that now borders on megalomania. These people exhibit true psycho-pathological behaviour marked by paranoia, raging obsession, self-identification with "mass movement." They are Eric Hoffer's "True Believers", T.S. Eliot's "hollow men"; Yeats warned against them, saying "an intellectual hatred is the worst." You cannot argue with these people; and yet, they stand for nothing. Any suggestion that they propose alternatives, or acknowledge that "9/11 mattered", is met with vile obscenties, choking rage. Whence cometh this descent to idiotarian repugnance? I think it's because their phony little elitism is threatened-- the world has changed. Their extreme reaction seems a juvenile-regression syndrome, incapable of distinguishing wishfulness from adult reality. For anyone who has not experienced these people in person, meeting one will come as a surprise. They are hateful, malignant, totally unprincipled. They admire Castro and Saddam. They will advance literally any cause, if it contravenes bedrock American Bill: I'd like to add something here, but your previous commenters have been so effective at driving the nails into the Democrat Pary coffin of defeat and denial, all I can say is: "If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning... I'd hammer in the evening, to bring VICTORY to this land!" 2006 is upon us... keep those hammers handy! Posted by: Mike's America at December 4, 2005 5:54 PMjf, Please don't use the word "PRICELESS" it reminds me of those wierd Visa commercials Posted by: Stan at December 4, 2005 6:15 PMJohn: I was born in 1960, my brother in 1964. Both of us are quite conservative, and my brother served about 10 years in the US Army. The ones who graduated in the 60's to 1973 got the party. All we got was the hangover: inflation, gas lines, defeat in Vietnam, high unemployment when we graduated from high school or college. In other words, the Democratic Party 'dream' for America. So it saddens me in particular to see that the current Republican party is not the party of Reagan, but as others hae noted above, they still beat the heck out of the socialist defeatists in the Dhimmicratic party. Posted by: PierreM at December 4, 2005 8:07 PMPierre, Not that I don't wish this to be true, but... ...how the hell does a Republican congressman's aide have access to numbers that MoveOn would presumably go to some effort to keep quiet if they were this bad? I have my doubts that this story will stand up for another day. Posted by: Mgmax at December 4, 2005 8:54 PMMr. Blake, your analysis of the frothing far left is spot on. They ARE a part of the boomer generation, but not a majority. You're right, there's no way to convert or dialogue with these people, you can only outlive them. Politically though, they can be reduced to irrelevance. Once they've caused the massive reduction of the democratic party's elected ranks, realists will take over, or produce a substitute organization. Only then will the two party system be restored. Posted by: Larry Faria at December 4, 2005 8:59 PMMgmax, the aide was reporting on how many calls/emails/letters the ad generated to the congressman's office - perhaps because the ad was aimed at the congressman. The ad had a "call your representative" tag at the end, with the congressman's phone number. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at December 4, 2005 9:13 PMU.S. Rep. Jack Kingston has an A+ grade from the immigration-reduction movement. Living in a state (Georgia) that is home to somewhere between 1 million and 2 million illegal aliens now, Jack can weather anything the Democrats throw at him. Go, Jack. Posted by: Donna Locke at December 4, 2005 9:42 PM"Priceless" is the MASTERCARD tag line. Anyway, some iinspired commentary here. Posted by: Mister Snitch! at December 4, 2005 10:08 PMAnd we all know that Kingston's office wouldn't lie about the number of calls they received, because Republicans never lie, do they? Jesus, Hobbs, you'll believe anything anyone ever tells you as long as they have an (R) after their name. Posted by: Paul Frederichs at December 4, 2005 11:11 PMI love it when a plan comes together It would have worked if it hadn't been for those pesky kids... Posted by: triticale at December 5, 2005 12:02 AMmoveon reps the mcgovernite wing of the party. as llong as they call the shots, the dems have NO CHANCE. i've been a dem since 1974. clinton's cenmtrism was a pose. now the old lefty gang is back in control. and they are a REAL threat to the GWOT. if they do take over the Congress or the WH, then we will abandon the Iraqis the way they forced us to abandon the South Vietnamese and the Contras. IOW: the dem party cannot be trusted with national security as long as the moveon lefties are in control. thnak God the moveon left is so incompetent. but that could change. so let's NOT let down our guard. Posted by: reliapundit at December 5, 2005 12:21 AMMore on the anti-Bush zombies: What is even more galling is that they refuse to accept their responsibility for putting Bush in the White House. After all, the Democrats in their infinite wisdom nominated first Al Gore and then John Kerry. John Kerry was the doofus who suggested that U.S. foreign policy should be handled by Jacques Chirac! That is to say, in all their ranting and raving againt Bush-this and Bush-that, they apparently never stop to think that, if not for Bush, John Kerry would be in the White House! Once again, the best reason to vote Republican is...the Democrats! Did anyone else notice the banner headline in the New York Times? "LET'S SURRENDER NOW!!!" (Actually, I made that up. :-0 ) Posted by: jaafar at December 5, 2005 8:01 AM"Bush is a horrible president on domestic issues..." And yet, somehow, the Dems and MoveOne still manage to get this meme swallowed whole cloth. I don't doubt the sincerity of the author, but I'd prefer to have some reasons behind this very strong evaluation. In the face of War and the gravest attack on American soil since the War of 1812 the President's domestic economic policies have still managed to enable strong growth, low inflation and high employment. Despite the most dire Christian-fundamentalist boogey-man warnings I have yet to see a cogent argument that Bush has meaningfully shifted the country toward an evangelical bent. Despite the ACLU promises of jack-booted thugs reading everyone's mail and looking over your shoulder in the library courtesy of the Patriot Act the only poster boy offered is Jose Padilla, a man who has eventually been charged with terrorist conspiracy and by most accounts would happily kill you and your kids given the chance. I'm not saying that I agree with everything Bush has proposed or done or that I don't think there are better ways he could have done it, but this assesment is usually made as a qualitative evaluation of performance rather than a critique of method. Or to put it another way, if Bush has really been "horrible ... on domestic issues," please provide a counter example of a President who is perceived as having been "good" (or even "competent") and contrast the two. Posted by: submandave at December 5, 2005 10:11 AMGloat! Posted by: Bleepless at December 5, 2005 9:50 PMPost a comment
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