I’m as happy as anyone else that the GOP is finally calling Democrats like Dean, Kerry and Pelosi to account for their eagerness to encourage the enemy that American soldiers are currently fighting (the new vid is here), but I also find it harder lately to keep laughing at what Victor Davis Hanson today describes as “the Democratic Implosion.” After all, it’s not like we haven’t been here before. There has, obviously, been a continuous effort by these and other elected American Democratic Party leaders to portray the United States as the bad actor in the war on terror generally, and the war in Iraq more specifically, and to maintain that we can’t prevail. There comes a point when laughing at their wrongheadedness and self-destructive instincts has to take a back-seat to mourning the fact that the “loyal opposition” in the United States at this time is in fact genuinely disloyal (excepting Joe Lieberman and a small handful of others). Is it too much to ask that the two main political parties in the United States should agree that defeating those who are pursuing the objective of “death to America” is a good thing? I don’t mind disagreeing on everything else: economic policy, social issues, global warming, UFOs, whatever; but can’t we just agree on fighting our external enemies, so that a shift in the power balance in Washington won’t be essentially a victory for Bin Laden, Zarqawi and the rest?

Obviously, it’s way too much to ask at this point in history, and today, to me, that’s depressing.

It’s depressing, because as much as Democrats are being hammered over their recent missteps (i.e. their mistake of stating a little too clearly what they actually believe), it will only result in the various players pulling their heads back into their shells until they again feel that there is an electoral advantage to be had by preaching defeat. It is no coincidence that George W. Bush was at his lowest point ever in the polls just before Rep. Murtha (the well known warhawk) came out with his public call for troop withdrawal, endorsed by Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi. They didn’t orchestrate that disgrace because they realized it would blow up in their faces; they did it because they looked at the polls and thought that enough people were now pessimistic about the war that this call for withdrawal would be the beginning of the end—with a steady stream of former war supporters jumping ship and a clear sail to defeat and futility in the style of Vietnam. Of-course Bush’s anemic poll numbers were always more about gas prices than anything else, as any seasoned observer of the moods of the American public should have known (if gas is $3 a gallon, the average person is not going to say the country is headed in the right direction). The failure of the Democratic anti-war crew to understand this displays their stupidity, yes, but something else is demonstrated: whenever they perceive the beginnings of doubt or fear on the part of the American public, they will jump forward to stick the knife right in there and twist it. If the will of the American people to keep up the fight can be transformed into a shortsighted desire to get stories about IEDs off the evening news, then Democrats shall be there to lead the way.

If I had one question to ask of John Kerry and crew it would be this: do you realize the extent to which your actions and statements are the embodiment of the Zarqawi/Bin Laden plan for victory, according to their own words (i.e., a gradual erosion of the American people’s will to fight)? And if you realize it, as you must, what is it that is stopping you from slitting your own wrists in shame? No—seriously. What keeps you from hanging yourself?

Perhaps when the mid-term election rolls around, and Democrats, going by present behavior, continue to shoot themselves in every foot and contribute only to an increased Republican majority—perhaps around that time I’ll be able to laugh again at their idiocy. As of today, though, it’s only making me sick.

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Addendum: The above being quite a downer, you might want to go check out the stoic Iowahawk for some relief:

POLL: 61% BACK TORTURE OF HOWARD DEAN

New York – A new IPSOS/CNN survey of Americans released today showed widespread support for using “aggressive interrogation techniques” on DNC Chairman Howard Dean, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and forced reading of Andrew Sullivan.

The surprising result comes amid growing controversy over US-run foreign “black site” detention centers, and Dean’s interview remarks that “the pathetic US Military is doomed to defeat in Iraq, against Zarqawi’s gallant legions of dashing and invincible super he-men.”

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