Hillary; Terror helps Republicans

According to the NY Post this morning, Hillary told supporters that a terrorist attack on the US would help Republicans in the 2008 election;

Discussing the possibility of a new nightmare assault while campaigning in New Hampshire, Clinton also insisted she is the Democratic candidate best equipped to deal with it.

“It’s a horrible prospect to ask yourself, ‘What if? What if?’ But if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the world,” Clinton told supporters in Concord.

“So I think I’m the best of the Democrats to deal with that,” she added.

Of course she’s correct that it would indeed help Republicans – but she sidesteps the entire issue of “why” it helps Republicans. Maybe Democrats know the answer and don’t need to discuss it – but they need to face the issue regardless. Democrats are HORRIBLE on national defense. The whole damned world knows it, and now Hillary says that she admits it, too. Not that she’ll do anything about it, though.

Democrats have been terrible on National Defense since Korea. The last good thing Democrats did for our national defense without having a political reason for doing it was sending troops to Greece to turn back the communists there in 1948 – every move since has been a political calculation.

The only reason Johnson sent troops to Vietnam was to overcome the Republican charge that Democrats had been soft on China. Kennedy started out well supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion, then collapsed for political reasons. Carter forgot he had a military, and Clinton, well, Clinton used military operations to distract the public from his domestic lies and scandals.

So instead of being better on National Defense, Democrats concocted the “bumper sticker slogan” defense – that Republicans manufactured a needless, illegal war for political reasons in order to minimize the importance of the war against terror. But the only people who really believe that are the head-in-the-sand internet freakazoids who engage in discussions from behind the safety of their computer screens.

Seems to me that a Democrat candidate that was truly concerned about this nation would try and convince their party to be better on National Defense – instead of caving in to the squeaky wheels.

Category: Politics, Terror War