August 10, 2006

"...Now I think I'm going down to the well tonight

       and I'm going to drink till I get my fill

    And I hope when I get old I don't sit around

       thinking about it

    But I probably will

    Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture

       a little of the glory of,

     Well time slips away

       and leaves you with nothing mister but

     Boring stories of

     Glory days

 

     Glory days, well they'll pass you by

     Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye

     Glory days, glory days..."

 

                    Lyrics from the song "Glory Days",

                    by Bruce Springsteen

 

 

To All,

     It's deja vu, all over again:

 

 

The In-A-Box Step:

 (with apologies to Tom Lehrer)

 

     (Left-wing) Democrats have tried to mix socialism with politics. From Henry Wallace to.... Dennis Kucinich (?!).

 

    But George McGovern was the star, who's done the best by far... in emblemizing what the Far Left would propose to do if ever given The Great Joystick of Power for just a little while.

 

      It is thus the antiwar platform of that misbegotten 1972 Presidential Campaign that Howard Dean and the rest of the MoveOn.org wing of the Democrat Part wishes to return. This was despite this being a place philosophically where Democrats were slaughtered at the polls (politically speaking) like so many "Hezbo's" caught in the open without the benefit of hiding behind women and children.

 

    And it is only with this little factoid in hand that yesterday's Connecticut primary victory of Ned Lamont, over Senator Joseph "Slow Joe" Lieberman, can be truly analyzed.

 

     For in truth, the only real difference between the veteran Lieberman's record, and what Lamont has promised during his campaign, has to do solely with how the war on terrorism is conducted.

 

     Lieberman belongs to the "take it to the enemy" side of realpolitik, on the principle that it is better to whack your enemies mightily offshore (perhaps the only kind of offshoring broadly acceptable to the American people) than to be held hostage to an annual negotiation over danegeld.

 

    Lamont, on the other hand, appears to belong to the Molleycoddle Crowd, who appear intent on giving succor to the philosophical descendents of Karl Lueger, Adolf Eichman, and Haj Amin al-Husseini simply due to an antipathy against any American power projection whatsoever (Something on France's "Promote This" list since De Gaulle was in knickers).

 

     Of course, The Molleycoddle Crowd's main problem lies with who (and what) they would wish to "mainstream" into society in the first place. They would "do the deal" with an Islamofascist rump, giving a loose amalgam of Yesterday's Nazis the means and moral authority to propagate a system that would deconstruct Western "liberalism" through violent means.

 

     And as tempting as it would be to subject whole herds of feminists to the customs of sharia (Think of the effect on the body politic of putting the likes of Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Helen Thomas "under the veil"), such mainstreaming would also attempt a nullification of some 600 years of struggle to liberate the human mind from the yoke of clerical hegemony.

 

     Targeted in this movement towards this deconstruction is the invaluable gift of the Founding Fathers, whose enlightened work product gives us the freedom, the will, and even the means to be able to defend the Republic to this day. Freedom would be replaced by the poll tax-like construct of "dhimmitude", simply because the Deans and the MoveOn.org denizens would want us all to quietly enter the Showers of Intellectual Darkness (perhaps physically as well as intellectually) with hardly a squeak or squeal.

 

     Fortunately there is the historical example of the 1970's (a period that this poster came of age in) to remind us as to the ineptitude of the McGovernites and their designated heirs, from Jimmy Carter on through today. And it is, perhaps, this very cautionary tale of hapless and naive Liberalism that bodes well for the future of the Republic.

 

     It may not be necessary to re-live the Malaise Days of the 1970's, just because a Confused Few wish to relive glory days now made obsolete by technology as well as historical lessons learned. But it will take the tried and true techniques of grass-roots political action to stop the "Dean-Dongs", Soros' Gang, and other assorted political vandals from implementing their misguided philosophy. Given the prognostications from such observers as Michael Barone, it is more than likely that America the Exceptional can be preserved for future generations to come if action is taken now. As always, it will take both faith and elbow grease to make this come true. Stay tuned.

 

 

Respectfully,