Four More Years Is A Forgone Conclusion
By Ron Marr (12/01/03)
It has to be the ultimate nightmare of the Democratic party. Not only do the donkeys lack a viable candidate for president, they are losing what were to be the key issues that would allow for nasty campaign ads. I suspect the left is feeling the same sense of nausea experienced by the right during the ascendancy of Bob Dole.
Sorry folks...but I'm amused.
Lets take a look at this. In terms of candidates the Democrats have drawn an empty hand in a high stakes game. The front runners aren't contenders; they are merely the dregs. They appear in televised debates and literally cannibalize each other. Kerry? He's history. That guy is even behind in the polls of his home state. Ketchup money won't save the "man who would be Kennedy."
Gephardt? Give it a rest. Forgetting the fact that a dude lacking eyebrows can never win the Oval Office, Little Richard is nothing by a tired replay of a Top 40 hit long ago consigned to the discount barrel. Clark? Edwards? Sharpton? In that trio you see the logical successors to Larry, Moe and Curly. Lieberman? Oh yeah...the wobbly fellow who hitched his star to the rusted Gore machine.
Dennis Kucinich? Please....it hurts too much to laugh. Run Kucinich as a candidate and you will witness a thrashing surpassing Nixon's annihilation of McGovern. I can't even view a picture of Dennis Kucinich without recalling a scene from "Rowen and Martin's Laugh In." Dennis is Henry Gibson, befuddled look on his face, holding a daisy in his hands and mumbling inane poetry.
Howard Dean? This is the best one of all. Dean has as his sole weapon the anger of Democrats who are still smarting over their loss in 2000. He will implode in public one of these days; his little gaffe regarding Southerners was just a taste of what will come and likely already cost him most of the states south of the Mason Dixon. Dean is basically John McCain...a gent who is not wrapped real tight, full of simmering resentment, a tiny volcano just itching for a chance to erupt.
And these folks actually think they stand a snowball's chance against George W Bush? They are competing against a seasoned incumbent who - like it or not - has done everything he said he would do. That in itself - the honesty factor - would probably win him the election. He has shown ethics and morals and values and courage. He confronts our enemies with force - admitting from day one the reality that wars are not won overnight. He faces down our lackadaisical allies, doing what is right rather than buckling under to the wishes of feckless European collaborationists. He brings common sense to the Executive Branch, and does not suffer fools.
And all his opponents and detractors can say is "he's stupid," or "he swaggers too much." They say this because their idea of stupidity is a failure to posture and preen for the cameras. Saying what you mean and meaning what you say is a foreign concept to such people. They hate the swagger because a leader with confidence, one who has taken us off the path of ambivalence and cowardice, goes against their desire for a nanny state.
And now, the one issue which the Democrats hoped to use as a divisive wedge has all but vanished. Keep in mind that liberals become giddy when times are bad...misery and misfortune make them smile.
Be assured they are certainly not smiling over the fact that Bush's economic policies are working. Retail sales are up. The residential housing market is booming. Unemployment is down, and as a whole the economy grew 8.2 percent in the July to September period (one of the largest jumps in history). Personal income was also up in this period by .4 percent. There is an increasing demand for more high tech goods and tourism is showing healthy growth. Thanks to the slow dismantling of some of the excessive and pointless environmental restrictions of the Clinton years, core industries are once again bouncing back. More mining, more logging, more jobs, more money. And less reliance on imports for our raw materials.
It is really hard to imagine what kind of person would wish to disregard such proven success. Who in their right mind would seek to tear down such increasing prosperity, would become appalled that the US has regained it's rightful place as the most powerful nation in the world. But, malcontents will always exist. They are the people who wish to be cared for from cradle to grave, who seek to just get along, who will trade the joys of freedom and individuality for a few table scraps from the table of tin-pot dictators at the beck and call of the United Nations.
There is a name for such misguided souls. Well, actually there are lots of names.
I just call them sore losers.
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