Thursday, January 25, 2007
Stand Up, Sit Down, Fight, Fight, Fight!
The State of the Union speech on Tuesday, about which I had no expectations, wasn't half bad. However, it did reveal something we on the right side of the political aisle had strongly suspected for a while--that is, that the Democrats don't care if we win the war we're in; they are, at best, indifferent to victory. Lorie Byrd said it pretty well.
The most dramatic statement in the president’s State of the Union address Tuesday night did not come from the president, and it was made without speaking a single word.
The President said:
This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in. Every one of us wishes that this war were over and won. Yet it would not be like us to leave our promises unkept, our friends abandoned, and our own security at risk. Ladies and gentlemen: On this day, at this hour, it is still within our power to shape the outcome of this battle. So let us find our resolve, and turn events toward victory.
At the word "victory," the Republicans stood up and cheered, the Democrats stayed seated in the main and did not cheer, many did not clap.
If you don't enthusiastically support the very concept of our country's victory in a current armed conflict, I have no use for you, politically. I won't support you. I won't stop criticizing you. I won't forget your inaction.
Hugh Hewitt is recently fighting against the defecting Republicans who feel they must hurt our troops' morale and build up the enemy's resolve by undercutting our commander in chief with a bit of political theater called a non-binding resolution. As bad as the Republicans messed up over the past few years, at least you could count on them really to support our troops by standing united and strong against the Jihadists who want to kill us. Maybe not all of them.
I support a slightly smaller but stronger party, with a metaphorical 'night of the long knives' purge of the weak of spirit. Republicans do best when they act like true Conservatives and completely screw the pooch when they act like Democrats of the early 1960s, as they are doing now. No wonder we got slaughtered last cycle.
The most dramatic statement in the president’s State of the Union address Tuesday night did not come from the president, and it was made without speaking a single word.
The President said:
This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in. Every one of us wishes that this war were over and won. Yet it would not be like us to leave our promises unkept, our friends abandoned, and our own security at risk. Ladies and gentlemen: On this day, at this hour, it is still within our power to shape the outcome of this battle. So let us find our resolve, and turn events toward victory.
At the word "victory," the Republicans stood up and cheered, the Democrats stayed seated in the main and did not cheer, many did not clap.
If you don't enthusiastically support the very concept of our country's victory in a current armed conflict, I have no use for you, politically. I won't support you. I won't stop criticizing you. I won't forget your inaction.
Hugh Hewitt is recently fighting against the defecting Republicans who feel they must hurt our troops' morale and build up the enemy's resolve by undercutting our commander in chief with a bit of political theater called a non-binding resolution. As bad as the Republicans messed up over the past few years, at least you could count on them really to support our troops by standing united and strong against the Jihadists who want to kill us. Maybe not all of them.
I support a slightly smaller but stronger party, with a metaphorical 'night of the long knives' purge of the weak of spirit. Republicans do best when they act like true Conservatives and completely screw the pooch when they act like Democrats of the early 1960s, as they are doing now. No wonder we got slaughtered last cycle.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 5:14 PM 
