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8th Day of "Reasons to Get out and Vote Republican"

Today's Reason: To teach them a lesson. Its not the Republicans I want to teach, its the Democrats.

Here's what I want to teach them:

"The Anti-war movement is electoral poison".

In my mind, the "anti-war movement" is just the gateway drug to the more corrosive and dangerous mental drugs of "Anti-American" and "Anti-Capitalist". If you stop the Democrats natural attraction of "Anti-War" then you can stop the move towards the next stop in the descent.

We've taught the Democrats before, and we can teach them again.
In the 2000 election, we taught the Democrats:

"The Anti-Gun position is electoral poison".

They used to run on "Anti-gun" like it was the first chapter of the bible. Now, they dont even mention it anymore. You see, Democrats can learn, hell even Rhesus monkeys in a lab learn to move the lever when they get a shock.

Democrats learn by losing, thats their shock. They cant believe it when you dont vote for them. It took weeks in 1994 for them to understand that they lost. They dont like to lose, but they are smart enough to learn from the experience. Republicans took 60 years to learn from the losses of the 1960's, they dont learn so fast, you have to beat them with a big cartoon mallet again and again and they still do the same dumbass things, like "Id rather lose on principal..." and crap like that. Democrats arent like that, Democrats react to losing power the way monkeys in a pharmaceutical cocaine study react to getting a carrot instead of their favorite derivitive of the coca leaf. They will do anything to get their fix, even give up on cardinal components of their movement, like their position on gun ownership.

1996: Gotta get a registration system going.
1998: We need a debate in this country about Guns.
2000: Its time to give up the guns.
2002: Anti-Gun? What are you talking about son, why I got me a
shotgun right here that my pappy gave me, of course I love guns, dont you got a gun? cant have enough guns!

As Republicans, we can debate what is and is not the proper conservative position on a budget. We can debate what is and what is not the proper position on immigration. We do it within the framework of "America the Beautiful", which is why the only debate we usually have on the military is "why the hell arent we squishing fill-in-the-blank-despot-of-the-moment" not the quality of the men and women in it. We can have a debate because we have a context that works. We know even when we lose a debate we come home with half a loaf of pretty good bread.

Their side doesnt have that context. Their side of the argument is often distilled into "America is wrong and you have too damn much money".

Now remember, until recently it was "America is wrong and you have too damn much money and too many guns", but we changed that.

We were successful at changing the other side from a dangerous idea. The Republicans were successful. Conservatives were successful. America, dare I say it, was successful.

And that was before we had an Internet. Just imagine what we can do now.Today we face a world where, like it or not, agree with it or not, desire it or not, fighting and dying in defense of this country is called for. Defense of this country is what is called for, in action and word.

We can no longer afford a political ideology that questions whether or not this country is worth fighting for. We cannot afford an ideology that says that defense of this country is inherently racist, imperialist, capitalist, "Only About Oil", and just plain wrong.

Why? Because its that sort of thing that gets more people killed around the world. It sets the stage for war. How many wars would get started if the people who wanted to start them with us, thought about it and said "No thanks!, We do that and Americans will want to hunt us down and kill us for sport, I'd rather try to be their friend, just look what happened to you-know-who..."

You want to stop terrorists? Stop treating them like they are heroes. Stop thinking that because they oppose the US that their cause must be "just". Stop thinking that every "rebel has a cause".

The "Anti-war" movement gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weak and that we can be beaten. This is what leads to more War and deadlier wars. What we see as a family disagreement and an intellectual debate is misinterpreted by the people that are out to kill us as a reason for them to step up attacks, its a reason to celebrate, its a reason to maintain positive morale in the face of devastating defeat.

"See, even the Americans support what we are doing, just look at their elections, look how so many of them actually argue that we are legitimate. They make fun of damned George Bush, We cant quit now, we've almost won!"

The "Anti-war" position kills people. It feeds our enemies. If you want to win a war (or end it) you need to starve your enemies, not encourage them. It's no more complicated than that.

If you vote for Democrats in this election, you might think youre voting for a perfectly nice centrist Democrat, but the "Anti-war" wing of leftist thought will take that perfectly nice candidate that you voted for and use it as evidence that their side in the argument is actually perferred by Americans. Not the "centrist American" side, but the loathesome "We hate America" side. Your vote will be used to prove it.

They will take that protest vote of yours to argue "America is in descent", that our sins have finally caught up with us and we need to be sorry for all the evil we have done in the world, and look at all the people who agree with us! They will argue that fundamental changes in our country are necessary to make up for our crimes of the past, that our its our military is actually what causes wars, that people in the military should be prosecuted and they are what causes other people in the world to hate us and not our lovely and socially relevent "pop-culture".

Look. Lamont is going to lose and Lieberman is going to win, but that is one race. That might be enough to make some Democrats scratch their head and think about the value of the "Anti-war" wing, but its not enough. If Democrats are tossed yet another defeat this time, they will learn. They will get the message. They will remove the leech of "Anti-war" from their crotch and we might start to see Democrats like Harry Truman again. Democrats who don't apologize for America or being an American.

And that will be good for all of us.

Until Then, Vote Republican, until the Democrats think of "Anti-war" like they now think of "Anti-gun".

UPDATE: Right on queue, Sy Hersh comes out and says this: "In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,” he said. “It isn’t happening now, but I will tell you – there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq."

By implication, Mr. Hersh wants to know why we arent filling the streets calling our soldiers in Iraq babykillers.

Murderers? Stupid? Babykillers? In a single week, with just a hint that they might win a part of Congress, this is what we get to hear.

Posted @ November 01, 2006 06:21 PM | Current Affairs