I supported John McCain in 2000, but in 2004 I nearly went ballistic when he said that John Kerry was his best friend in the Senate, the same traitorous John Kerry who has been slandering and libeling him of late.
LESSON FOR McCAIN: don’t put “friends” in your cabinet: Bush’s failures were all Texas buddies: AG Gonzalez, Hud Secy A. Jackson, Karen Hughes, press secretary McClellan, etc. Look for the best talent available.
McCAIN: War in Iraq: The Democrats and main stream media are trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as they did by having CBS’s Walter Cronkite tell us we’d lost when we’d in fact won
the Tet offensive. (ch. 10 TET in Victor Davis Hanson’s CARNAGE & CULTURE)
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is being ruined by DC porkmeisters. Rep. Jeff Flake, a porkbuster, was kept off the Appropriations Committee by Majority Leader and porker Boehner. Sad . In 1994, the party’s best intellectual, Newt Gingrich, borrowed much of the Reform Party platform, called it the Contract With America, printed it on one page in TV Guide and regained the house for the Republicans for the first time in 40 years. And they kept their word to pass this reform legislation in 100 days. But, alas, they came to do good and, like the ministers who went to Hawaii, they did well. We need a new batch of idealists.
PERSUASION: N We not only have Fox News channel, talk radio, the Internet but great columnists like VDH, Christopher Hitchens, Mark Steyn, Thomas Sowell, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan et al and a brilliantly persuasive or wickedly funny column can be emailed to political buddies faster than a speeding bullet.
WHAT AMERICANS THINK ABOUT THE MILITARY: The military is much admired these days. Young men are enlisting in record numbers and at a time when the young American male had turned into a hip hopping rude slob with his pants hanging off his butt, the military is actually producing very attractive, trim young gentlemen, who say:” Yes, Ma’am, No, Ma’am.” which we women find most attractive. And I read that with the fleet in town in Manhattan, a sailor couldn’t pay for a drink. That sounds like support to me which doesn’t show up in polls, whose questions are written by fools to be answered by fools.
WHAT AMERICANS THINK ABOUT THE WAR IN IRAQ AND THE WAR ON TERROR: Hollywood film makers haven’t been able to profit from anti-war films. But TV, which depends on ratings, and is hence more market-driven has had hits like 24 (Islamicists worked mightily to have the villains not be Muslims, leading to some silly seasons). THE UNIT (written by FORMER liberal David Mamet). NCIS is on CBS and in syndication on USA, and even had a marathon on Memorial Day weekend competing with ratings behemoth L&O. JAG is still in syndication. All of these have Iraq stories and are popular with the public, just not so much with the critics. Meanwhile, anti-war protests have dissapointed middle-age, Birkenstock-wearing hippies who hoped to relive their anti-war glory days.
War is always unpopular when we’re losing, but ever since General Petraeus took over, we’re WINNING, Jihad is on the ropes and muslims world-wide are losing their enthusiasm for it. Why were they initially so enthusiastic about Jihad? Because muslims thought that Osama Bin Laden (who actually had a very minor role) had defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan, and so surely would be able to defeat us. . Alas, Islam has to be slapped down hard every few generations (Jefferson sent the Marines to fight the Berbers aka Barbary Pirates who were hijacking our ships and selling our citizens into slavery (p. JEFFERSON: AMERICA’S AUTHOR, Christopher Hitchens)
BUSH AND THE WAR: Lincoln was very unpopular and on the point of being defeated by a non-fighting General McClellan (much like the Pentagon Princes surrounding Obama) until he found Generals Grant and Sherman (read Victor Davis Hanson’s THE SOUL OF BATTLE and his many essays here at PJM. Americans like victory and finally we’re WINNING.
support George Bush 1000% on the war in Iraq. Actor Omar Sharif, an Egyptian, has said that democracy will never take root in the middle east and when he has a problem he goes to his Sheik.
