The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
By Randall Nunn (02/07/05)
On Wednesday night, President Bush delivered one of his best State of the Union messages and one of the better such speeches to be delivered since President Ronald Reagan. That was “The Good.” Afterwards we were treated to “The Bad”—the response by Senator Harry Reid and Representative Nancy Pelosi. Their response was arrogant, nasty, inaccurate and just awful. And then there was “The Ugly”—the hate-filled response from the mainstream media.
President Bush delivered one of the most effective State of the Union addresses we have heard in some time. He was confident, direct, sincere and determined while laying out a clear description of the state of our union and a roadmap for the future. For those conservatives who have been a little fearful that President Bush might lose some of his interest in pursuing initiatives that further the conservative agenda, he showed determination and fire. He hasn’t been taken in by the media’s ploy of suggesting that we need accommodation and understanding of the left and the mantra that we all need to “heal the wounds” and “just get along”—which really means, “Now that you won a major victory and confirmed the country’s conservative mood, why don’t you show magnanimity by ignoring the desires of your supporters and pandering to the leftists you just defeated.” For the first time in a long while, there is actually hope that the philosophical underpinnings of our government may be brought back into proper adjustment, allowing this country to advance and prosper, even while combating terrorism and advancing liberty.
The political opposition, led by Senator Reid and the well-dressed and groomed Nancy Pelosi, showed that the Democratic Party is adamantly continuing in its opposition to anything that enhances free choice at the expense of government control. Reid and Pelosi showed that the Democratic Party is planning to continue its obstructionism and to defend the status quo, not based on any considered and reasoned political analysis but simply because they are unwilling to compromise and change, even when it is clear that their pet government programs have been failures and that the country has forcefully rejected the liberal philosophy of ever-increasing control by a nanny-state government. Senator Reid captured the arrogance and elitism of the left with his story of the young boy who wanted to be just like the Senator when he grew up, and Nancy Pelosi demonstrated the detachment from reality by her statement that our soldiers in Iraq are an “occupying force”. The contempt and disdain for the average American citizen (represented by the voters in the “red states”) and our military’s sacrifices could not have been clearer. The historical misunderstanding and lack of awareness exhibited by Reid and Pelosi is of a magnitude similar to that of the Czar of Russia prior to the revolution. The Democrats are going down fighting. But the sad thing is that they are fighting for an out-moded and rejected ideology that has been a colossal failure.
The Ugly came later that night as the mainstream media and network pundits sharpened their knives and went to work, slashing at the truth, the genuine emotion of the moment when President Bush paid his, and the nation’s, respect to the parents of a Marine sergeant who had been killed in Iraq and the call to move forward on certain issues on a non-partisan basis. President Bush has infuriated the mainstream media by winning a crucial election even though the media waged an all-out war against President Bush, utilizing the mountains of money from George Soros, special interest groups and the Hollywood glitterati to orchestrate the most biased, negative and uncontrolled attack on a sitting president seen in our lifetime. After winning such a hard-fought campaign, the President had the unmitigated effrontery to deliver a speech in which he sought to advance the philosophy of liberty and less governmental intrusion that he espoused during his successful presidential campaign. A president who repudiates the philosophy of the left must be made to pay for his insolence. And the way to do that is to continuously ridicule his words, his ideas, his supporters, the way he walks and speaks, and his quaint ideas and beliefs. The only problem with this reaction by the liberal media is that a majority of the country largely agrees with the president and views the attacks upon him as attacks upon the ideas and beliefs that are shared by most of us and that are the foundations of our history and our culture.
The ugly attacks on the president and his message, and on the genuineness of the grief and pride of Sergeant Norwood’s parents serve to illustrate the pettiness and viciousness of the left. The winds of change are stirring, yet the left wing of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media continue on in ignorance and unconcern, like a herd of dinosaurs grazing unaware of the changes taking place all around them.
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