Posted by
Gamecock on Saturday, March 17, 2007 6:38:56 AM
I regularly refer to liberal Democrats as sissies, when it comes to defense and foreign policy, which they most assuredly are and have been since at least 1972.
I define a sissy as one who seeks the path of least resistance when challenged, which usually requires that one accept the characterization of the issues, if not the facts and the resolution, as defined by one's adversary.
For the sissy Dems, this means blaming America first along with foreign adversaries in an attempt to lure enemies into dialogue with the promise of appeasement if they will please not kill us.
But we Republicans have a number of sissies in appointive and elective office and sissy tendencies when it comes to dealing with the mainstream media's characterization of ordinary events as crises requiring penance from republicans but not Democrats.
Alberto Gonzales' pathetic response to the media's trumped up crisis from the non-story surrounding the firing of U.S. Attorneys embodies the sissified approach of too many elected and appointed Republicans in general and the, while hawkish abroad, too often sissified at home Bush Administration in particular when it comes to dealing with the Democrats and the media.
I recently covered some of the legal issues and The Competence of Harriet Miers.
The "new tone" Bush vowed to carry out after the preceived trauma of the Clinton politics of personal destruction impeachment years, has come to resemble the behavior of a pathetically weak spouse bullied by their mate.
The Dems and MSM are the abusers and Bush's boys are the enabler/battered spouse that refuses to leave. Are DC Republicans victimes of Stockholm Syndrome? Or are they just punks that lose all of their principles and common sense when surrounded by Katherine Graham and the Potomac?
Or do they look at Scooter and the potential jury pools and just decise to try and wait out the day they can flee to a red state without being indicted along with ham sandwiches as OJs walk?
They still don't understand that being nice won't cause the Dems and MSM to like them and stop trying to destroy them anymore than pulling troops out of Iraq will prevent bin Laden from bombing one's European country.
They don't understand that the New York Times and Washington Post are not empowered by law to define the rules of the game in NYC, DC or any place one can see.
We do not have to say "how high" when the press says jump.
When Gonzales made the mistake of playing the NYT game of "mistakes were made" it was like spilling blood in the water. He showed domestic weakness to domestic enemies as obvious as the weakness foreign enemies see every time a democrat opens their mouth in Washington.
Bring back Ashcroft. After 9/11 he rounded up the Arab and Muslim nation foreign nationals and probably did more to prevent follow up attacks than any man in the country and may have saved more lives that any one man in US history.
He was blunt and relentless and never appeased CBS.
Much like Reagan and PATCO, for instance.
Gonzales makes me ashamed with his incompetence and pathetic going through the motions dance to the MSM's tune while he awaits a SCOTUS appointment or a return to Texas. Heck, Texas is ready for you now.
Alberto, the monkey to the MSM grinder.
Pitiful.
And I haven't even yet mentioned his legal advice not to prosecute media for violating laws against revealing intelligence that endangers Americans and aids our enemies during war.
Mr. Ashcroft, American hero,
America misses you.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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