In its death throes, GOP will say anything to cling to power
In an election cycle that promises to deliver a stinging rebuke to the GOP for its disastrous policies, increasingly desperate Republicans are resorting to truly disgusting and disgraceful means of keeping their claws on the levers of power at any price.
This is what Bush and Cheney had to say yesterday:
“However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses. That’s what’s at stake in this election. The Democrat goal is to get out of Iraq. The Republican goal is to win in Iraq.”
Bush is not content to share power with Democrats, no–who are, after all, red-blooded Americans just like him. Any victory whatsoever by the Dems, any loss of absolute power in Washington by the Republicans, means nothing less than the ignominious defeat of America and a complete victory for terrorists. He makes this statement in the same breath as claiming the GOP wants to win in Iraq, while failing to explain how he intends to do that and while avoiding the NIE statement that the war is actually worsening terrorism.
Bush and Cheney are not alone in their vile rhetoric. In Tennessee, Republicans recently aired two racially tinged commercials against Harold Ford (who is black in a deeply conservative state): a universally condemned one in which a white female stripper asks Ford to call him (evoking interracial sex anxieties for voters) and a radio ad that beats jungle drums whenever Ford is discussed. In Virginia, George Allen slammed Jim Webb over fictional novels Webb had written describing hellish life in Vietnam during that conflict. And, of course, there’s always gay marriage.
These are your leaders, America–schoolyard bullies who show their true colors and throw a tantrum when threatened with losing their disastrous hold on power. It’s time to give them the butt-kicking that all good bullies deserve.
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Well said, Joe. What strikes me as especially vile in this circumstance is the probability (if the leaks are true) that James Baker’s panel to recommend how to “correct” our Iraq strategy is going to conclude that the kind of victory that Bush and Cheney uphold as the only viable outcome is actually a quite impossible outcome.
All the while they deny that they ever claimed we needed to “stay the course” in spite of video evidence that that has been their drumbeat for years now. We cannot stay the course. And we cannot achieve the victory they promise.
Nobody, left or right, should be surprised by this. This administration has failed repeatedly to deliver on their promised forumla for victory.
Bill Maher said it best on a recent program. You can hear what he had to say on YouTube…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Aw-rvDYt6w
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