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11/25/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy

Laying his cards on the table

Have indeed the democrats 'bent over'? Orson Scott Card says, if they have, it's because they're double-tagging the American public along with the American media.

In one of Patrick O'Brian's novels about the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars, he dismisses a particularly foolish politician by saying that his political platform was "death to the Whigs."

Watching the primary campaigns among this year's pathetic crop of Democratic candidates, I can't help but think that their campaigns would be vastly improved if they would only rise to the level of "death to the Republicans."

Instead, their platforms range from Howard Dean's "Bush is the devil" to everybody else's "I'll make you rich, and Bush is quite similar to the devil."

Since Bush is quite plainly not the devil, one wonders why anyone in the Democratic Party thinks this ploy will play with the general public.

There are Democrats, like me, who think it will not play and should not play, and who are waiting in the wings until after the coming electoral debacle in order to try to remake the party into something more resembling America.

But then I watch the steady campaign of the national news media to try to win this for the Democrats, and I wonder. Could this insane, self-destructive, extremist-dominated party actually win the presidency?

They might – because the national news media are trying as hard as they can to pound home the message that the Bush presidency is a failure.

Even though by every rational measure it is not.

read on...


Tuesday the 25th of November, prof_booty noted:


how the hell did you find this?


Tuesday the 25th of November, rafuzo noted:


I have my sources.


Tuesday the 25th of November, prof_booty noted:


the ansible?


Tuesday the 25th of November, awiggins noted:


excellent