The Central Focus
By Randall Nunn (11/18/03)
Billionaire financier George Soros recently pledged $5 million to a liberal activist Internet group that is a virtual unofficial arm of the Democratic Party, saying that beating President George Bush in 2004 is "the central focus" of his life. George, you really need to stop obsessing about something you and your money cannot control.
Otherwise, you are going to spend a lot of time and money only to find out that seldom does money buy an election result when the American public focuses on issues that concern the survival of our country and our way of life. You are setting yourself up for a great disappointment and a depressing evening on election night in November, 2004. Spend your millions on wine, women and song and you will be the happier for it and millions can then point to you as a perfect stereotype of a rich financier.
Mr. Soros is like a person who so badly wants to see the favorite in a horse race beaten that he puts all his money on the remaining nine burned out nags who don’t have a prayer of winning unless the favorite stumbles and breaks a leg. In the case of the presidential race, that is not likely to happen. The economy is on the mend and the Bush administration is likely to get Iraq under control before next November. The liberal media will keep up the negative drumbeat, and probably get downright apoplectic before next fall, but talk radio, the Internet and the American citizens’ innate common sense are beginning to blunt the effectiveness of liberal propaganda and money. No doubt someone will say that I have it all wrong—that the Republicans are the party of big money. Not today. Look at the amount of money from contributors giving $1 million or more—90% of those high dollar contributions are going to the Democrats. That probably surprises many, but it shouldn’t if they are paying attention to the big money going to leftist candidates from Hollywood, labor unions, trial lawyers and big business.
The leaders of the Democratic Party have become elitists who seek the votes of those at both ends of the economic spectrum while doing little to help those in the middle. They pander to those at the bottom of the economic ladder while socializing with those at the top, intending to pay for the entitlement programs which are so much a part of their ideology largely from the incomes of the middle class. This might be a good plan so long as the voters who owe their government largesse to the Democrats, combined with the various interest group constituencies of the Democratic Party plus the elitists at the top whose supreme intelligence qualifies them to tell the rest of us how to live our lives, outnumber those who are paying for these programs. Today, the split between those making payments to government and those receiving payments from government is fairly close. But, fortunately for the country, an issue has intervened that is causing many to reassess where their real interest lies. That issue is the attack on our country by terrorists who wish to see us and our system of government utterly destroyed.
Many of those people receiving payments from government realize that the first priority today is the survival of their country and their form of government. And some of these people trust the ability and resolve of the Bush administration more than that of any of the Democratic candidates. Thus, if the economy continues its comeback, the Democratic elite must make it appear that the Bush administration cannot win the war in Iraq or the war on terrorism if they are to retain the votes of those who otherwise see the Democrats as their economic saviors. The problem with this is that few believe any of the Democratic candidates come anywhere close to being equal to Bush when it comes to national security. The Democrats and their loyal allies in the media can call Bush a "cowboy" who goes it alone, but when the rustlers are in your herd cutting out your best steers you want a determined and fearless Rowdy Yates—not Elmer Fudd on a hobby horse calling for a resolution from the United Nations. Nor do you need a "greenhorn from back East" like George Soros, writing multi-million dollar checks while comparing President Bush’s ideology with that of Nazi Germany. President Bush probably can’t say it, but someone needs to tell Soros to "smile when you say that, mister." Smile or no smile, Soros’ words are inappropriate and offensive—and they are also an indication of the fear running rampant among the far left ideologues. Soros’ problem is that he does not have a "central focus"—only a highly-skewed to the left focus.
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