Republicans held to different standard than Democrats by American media
HOUSTON—I always feel right at home sitting with Republicans, while invariably feeling more than slightly uncomfortable sitting with Democrats.
President George W. Bush, a man of decency, dedication and courage, is in the sights of the American Liberal-Left, particularly the Lib-Left media, and howling Democrat politicians such as failed lifeguard Senator Teddy Kennedy, pedantic Nevada Senator Harry Reid, and shrieking California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.
One shudders at what will be the direction of the U.S. should the Republicans lose control of the Senate in mid-term elections in November, and even worse if the Democrats actually win the presidential elections two years later.
Indicative of Democratic hypocrisy is the fawning for Patrick Kennedy, son of the above loathsome Teddy Kennedy, supposedly impaired by prescription drugs, narrowly missed hitting a police car in Washington, only to slam his own car into security barriers.
Patrick Kennedy was excused from taking a sobriety test after pleading he hadn’t been slurping alcohol, but had only been taking prescribed drugs for a variety of ailments. He was, he insisted, heading for an essential vote in the House of Representatives. This was at 2:30 a.m., and the House had closed down six hours earlier!
Next day, bold as brass, he sanctimoniously announced on TV he was again entering “rehab” to free himself from an unfortunate addiction to pain killers. Everyone understood. The poor lad. How commendable. No one should have the gall to question him.
This contrasts with what happened to Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who also admitted being addicted to prescription painkillers.
Police hounded him. Limbaugh was hauled before the courts. The Lib-Left smelled blood. Limbaugh was painted as a disgrace. He should never be allowed to show his face in public again, that sort of thing.
Yes sir, there is one set of rules when Conservatives get into trouble, quite another when Liberals do.
Which is why senior Democratic Senator Robert Byrd can gloss over his years with the Ku Klux Klan as irrelevant, but GOP Senator Trent Lott was ripped apart for paying homage to 100-year-old Strom Thurmund, then the longest serving senator in U.S. history, who decades earlier backed segregation.
It’s the same fraudulent attitude they take with Bush.
Senator Hillary Clinton led the charge against Bush over the abortive Dubai World Ports deal, even while her husband, Bill, was secretly lobbying on behalf of the Dubai World Ports.
Bill, naturally, had at one time been paid several hundred thousand dollars for appearances in Dubai.
Bush is blamed for the chaos in not responding quickly enough to Hurricane Katrina, even though the Lib-Left stalled the modernization of the levees in New Orleans on environmental grounds, and even as the Democratic governor of Louisiana and the Democratic mayor of New Orleans stonewalled while Bush desperately tried to get emergency services moving.
The president is condemned for the liberation of Iraq and going into Afghanistan, even though it was two Democratic presidents, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who declared the U.S. should use its power to bring democracy to the world and strike out at enemies before they had a chance to strike out at you.
Wilson learned from the First World War, and Roosevelt from the Second World War.
Wilsonian philosophy declared the U.S. must be the standard bearer in the world, and Roosevelt swore after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour the U.S. must never be caught napping again.
It wasn’t—until 9/11. Which came about because Clinton had ignored a continued buildup of radical Islamic attacks during his term in office.
Come 9/11, and Bush responded exactly as Roosevelt had done.
On a closer look, Democratic president Harry Truman was of the same ilk as Wilson, Roosevelt and Bush.
It was Truman who responded to the threat of communism, not only with containment of the Soviet Union under the Truman Doctrine, but with the defence of South Korea when North Korea, backed by Red China, invaded.
Truman also established the unfairly maligned Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which the Democrats now love to hate.
Sadly, Democratic president Jimmy Carter thought spies were immoral, and so he hacked away at Truman’s creation, firing overseas intelligence officers and telling the CIA to rely on electronic surveillance, especially from satellites.
That’s why the world was so shaken when the Soviet Union and its empire suddenly fell apart—satellites couldn’t provide the intelligence that spies on the ground could.
Bush actually does not only embody the philosophy of Wilson, Roosevelt and Truman, but also of beloved president Ronald Reagan. It is not only a tragedy, but almost treason, that the Democrats and the Liberal-Left pack would try to undermine their nation’s security—and the security of much of the rest of the world—simply to gain political points for the upcoming midterm elections.
May their insidiousness fail them.
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