I profoundly disagree with Roger L. Simon. The election of any Democrat (or Ron Paul style Republican) to the White House in 2008 would be a disaster. The polling data clearly shows that far too many Democrats do not really believe in the war on terror. As matter of fact, it is now the consensus view among their intellectual class that the threat of Islamic totalitarianism is greatly exaggerated. More importantly, and this is what Simon fails to comprehend: America is allegedly at fault for the enraging Osama bin Ladin and his terrorist allies. We imperialist have filthed on the dark skinned people of the world. The Democrats, it is very fair to say, are mostly self-hating Americans.
Everyone should read James Pierson’s Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism. I consider this work to be the most important book of this year. The author contends that the phenomenon of self-hating Americanism begin immediately after the Kennedy assassination. Left-wing Democrats conned many Americans to believe that somehow their own country was responsible for the murder of their national leader. The reality, of course, is that Lee Harvey Oswald—a committed Communist, assassinated JFK.
There are few center-left Democrats remaining within the Democratic Party. Joseph Lieberman did not run as a Democrat in his last election. The pacifism of George McGovern dominates the party. Harry Truman and Hubert Humphrey are long dead.
