Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Tancredo's Know-Nothing Campaign
Tom Tancredo, who is not my congressman, but his district starts five blocks south of here, gave the enemy a terrific, long term propaganda win yesterday by talking (hypothetically--yea, like that qualifier matters) about bombing Mecca in retaliation for a nuclear strike on the United States. On Hugh Hewitt's show yesterday, the Nativists were restless. Tom continued to dig at his news conference and refused to apologize and take it all back. What did Blake say about a fool persisting in his folly?
If history tell us anything (and I believe it tells us nearly everything) threatening the religious center merely makes the fanatics even more fanatic and causes the moderates to further cower. One of the things that caused Imperial Japan to hold out as we were just beating the snot out of them was the idea that we would arrest the Divine Emperor. Once that was off the table, surrender came quickly.
If history tell us anything (and I believe it tells us nearly everything) threatening the religious center merely makes the fanatics even more fanatic and causes the moderates to further cower. One of the things that caused Imperial Japan to hold out as we were just beating the snot out of them was the idea that we would arrest the Divine Emperor. Once that was off the table, surrender came quickly.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:28 AM 
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Couldn't agree with you more, leftie. Tancredo may be persona non grata in the hierarchy of the Republican Party but he won his district handily last time and it will be a safe district as long as he wants it. I do keep posting about Plame but it's not a dog returning to his vomit. sorry for that image.
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