Damn the Stupidoes, Full Speed Ahead*

Completely clueless or devilishly devious are two possible descriptions for the Obama campaign with this latest revelation of Soviet naval vessels being used as a backdrop while a liberal, former admiral was addressing the Democrat convention. Navy Times is reporting that while retired Admiral John Nathman, a rare liberal among the retired, multistar-wearing military, spoke to the delegates in Charlotte, the Democrat campaign operatives showed their true colors by providing him a backdrop of Russian warships.

Was it a screw-up or was it by design and symbolically significant? Democrats have such a lack of real understanding of our military that it could just be attributed to their intrinsic stupidity. On the other hand, one can imagine that some too-clever mind in the campaign structure saw it entirely fitting for a left-wing admiral to be backed up by a Soviet fleet as he supported a party and a platform that betray the very forces he once led. Whatever, I’m sure the Democrats, now that they’ve been outted by Navy Times, will want to hide behind the excuse of it being nothing more than an oversight. Regardless of whether it was ineptitude or exceeding political cleverness, it was, indeed, a stupid mistake.

While admittedly requiring a stretch of the imagination, it could be possible that, in a political party that has become increasingly left-wing and hostile to traditional American values, a deliberate use of Soviet vessels was meant to be a subliminal, message to the far-left faithful. Surely the Democrat Party can’t possibly believe they can sell a low key hard left message to America at large. The majority of this country rejects such left-wing sentimentality. Ronald Reagan is remembered and lionized primarily for bringing the Soviet bear, including its burgeoning navy, to its knees. Yet the leftists at the core of the Democrat party believe they can get away with such imagery? Hope must indeed spring eternal in the breasts of those so politically demented.
As for John Nathman, if he knowingly stood before those Soviet ships, the only honorable action available to this turncoat to the United States Navy and all its history and traditions, is to figuratively fall on his officer’s sword by sinking into retirement, to forever run silent and run deep. Entire careers were spent by American sailors to confront and defeat the Soviet navy during the multiple decades of the Cold War.

Ronald Reagan’s rebuilding of our own Navy, and the sailors who manned all those new American vessels in countless confrontations around the world’s oceans, played an overlarge part in the collapse of the Soviet Union. For those seamen, that war was not cold at all but carried with it the very real peril of imminent death on a daily basis. This lefty admiral has betrayed those naval warriors’ honorable heritage by defending a party friendly to Soviet principles and relentlessly hostile to our military.

And doing so before a scrim featuring their former foes.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mobile_Bay#Damn_the_torpedoes

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