A political strategy that will surely kill us all

The Democrats have decided that they can’t convince the American voters that Democrats are committed to protecting us. They ran what they perceived to be a war hero as their Presidential candidate in 2004, not realizing that he came with loads of baggage that real war heros would recognize as snotty, elitist Hollywood faux-heroism.

Democrats realize that they can’t win the 2008 presidential election within the confines of the current state of affairs in the world – that being the global war against terrorism – without a candidate that can prove they are committed at any cost to defend Americans. They can’t find a candidate like that while their base voters are a bunch of Left-wing nutballs convinced that any war Republicans fight is illegitimate and some sort of conspiracy.

So what’s the Democrat strategy to overcome such an obstacle? Deny that there’s a war against terror. John Edwards is just the latest to tell us to ignore the man with the bomber’s vest behind the curtain. Last month Dick Durbin claimed that he knew the American people were being misled to war by the White House – there was no threat, but anyone who has been half-awake for the last six years knows Durbin would have leaked any damaging information to the press in heartbeat if he thought he could hurt the administration.

Dennis Kucinich, last month declared that the war was lost the minute the administration fabricated a cause to go to war. So there was no reason to go to war, because the Global War on Terror doesn’t really exist, except in the minds of some nebulous neo-con organization somewhere.

So that’s the strategy – deny there’s a war so they don’t have to prove that they can defend us. Mainly because Americans will never trust the Left with our National Security. Rational people might try to formulate a coherent policy to answer America’s problems. But, then, we’re not talking about rational people here.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Politics