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WHAT LIBERAL ADVICE IS WORTH TO REPUBLICANS
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As soon as McCain folded, Bush bounced
ahead of Gore in the polls. Liberals said it was
all because he was "moving to the center."
Liberals told Bush he had to get to
the magic "middle of the road." After
all, that Magic Center was the way Robert Dole and
Bush Senior made themselves such successes in the
post-Reagan era.
But let's take a look at reality.
Recently, Bush was beginning to falter in the polls.
Then he picked a vice presidential running mate
who was to the right of the NRA on gun control,
and solid on other conservative issues. Margaret
Carlson led the liberal mourning, with Bill Schneider
following up: This was a disaster! This was away
from the Magic Middle liberals and Jerry Ford (another
big Republican middle-of-the-road winner) always
recommend for Republicans.
So, immediately after the Cheney move
sank in, Bush took a bounce in the polls, and is
back in double digits. This demonstrates again that
Republican middle-of-the-road politics are only
successful from the DEMOCRATIC point of view.
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ANOTHER
WRITER IS PROUD TO HAVE NO FEELING FOR HIS HOMELAND
OR HIS PEOPLE
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In case you think I repeat "anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews"
too much, let me point to recent reviews of Mel
Gibson's movie, "The Patriot." In these
reviews, Gibson's character is repeatedly portrayed
as a Nazi type, as are his fellow patriots.
Absolutely everything, according to these reviews,
is Nazi.
For example, the movie is criticized for showing
atrocities which review writers say should only
be blamed on Nazis!
Serious atrocities are reserved for attacking Nazis.
If you blame them on anybody else, including those
who actually committed them, you are anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews!
This is a new twist: if you mention atrocities and
don't mention Hitler, you stink of Nazism!
Here's another one. In its continuing campaign to
remove both the Confederate flag and the Confederate
monument, "The State" had an editorial
by a guy named Asquith. Asquith uses another aspect
of the "anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews"
line.
Asquith explains how he is above any feeling for
the South:
"My blood is patriotic, not for a place or
a people (that's nationalism) , but for a constitutional
order that my nation represents."
Asquith does not have to state the Establishment
line as to what "nationalism" means. We
have been told that many times:
Nationalism = National Socialism = anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
In "CAN A MELTING POT
REALLY EXPECT LOYALTY?" I discussed this
form of "patriotism." Asquith is proud
to say that he has no loyalty to his people or his
place of birth. He only needs to be true to some
words. So what if, in his opinion, somebody comes
along who has a slightly better set of words? What
is to keep him from betraying his country without
a second's hesitation?
This condemnation of anyone who has any feeling
for his people or his place of birth is supposed
to be in the name of fighting Hitler. But, as I
pointed out in "CAN A MELTING POT REALLY EXPECT LOYALTY?," the
United States refused to enter the war against Japan
until OUR SOIL was attacked and AMERICAN BLOOD spilled.
We did not begin to fight Hitler until he declared
war on us.
And why did Hitler declare war on us? He said he
was honoring his alliance, and taking the side of
"heroic Japan." Not only was the Pacific
War NOT being fought on German soil, it was literally
as far away from Germany as it could be on the planet
Earth. And Hitler took the side of the non-white
Japanese against an overwhelmingly white America!
WE fought because our land had been violated and
OUR blood spilled.
As I understand it, this makes the Americans nationalists
and therefore it makes us the real Nazis in World
War II! To reach liberal conclusions, you have to
add some amazing twists!
Meanwhile, back here in the real world, loyalty
to words is "Wordism,"
(May 15, 1999) and it has killed more people than
a hundred Hitlers.
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Wordist thinking made liberals feel free during the Vietnam
War not just to criticize the war itself, but to carry
the flag of the enemy in their Peace marches. In Havana,
Bella Abzug cheered loudly as a film was shown of an American
plane being shot down by the North Vietnamese.
It is exactly this idea, that a nation is just a set of
words, and you can pick the best set of words to be loyal
to, that made outright treason such a routine thing in
the 1960's. Abzug's loyalty was with her good guys, the
Cubans and the Viet Cong. She felt they had a better set
of words. The fact that the pilot going down was from
the country where she was born and raised meant nothing
at all to her.
That would be nationalism, you see. If she didn't cheer
the killing of Americans, Abzug would have been a Nazi,
you see
During a trip to visit her heroes in North Vietnam in
the 1960s, Jane Fonda posed for a picture manning a Communist
anti-aircraft gun which was used against Americans. She
apologized for that again last week.
But, if we use Asquith's argument, why should she regret
what she did? Unless she is at all loyal to "her"
land of birth or "her" people, she did exactly
what she should have done. In the 1960s, Fonda proclaimed
that, if Americans knew what Communism really was, they'd
fall to their knees and pray for it. Unless she was a
Nazi, how could she not be for shooting down American
pilots?
At the time she posed at the controls of that gun, she
felt the Communists offered a better constitutional order,
or set of principles, than did the United States. In that
case, loyalty to the United States would have made her
a nationalist, or anaziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
Like many on the right, I was against the Vietnam War.
Like Reagan, my position was that we should fight it seriously
or get out of it. Unlike Reagan, I stuck to that position.
But my loyalties have always been to my own people and
my own country.
Nowadays, old liberals say they were completely patriotic
in the 1960s. They say they were just for Peace and Love.
Naturally, when they say that on television, respectable
conservatives get that goofy grin on their face, nod vigorously,
and wipe the drool from the side of their faces.
During the Gulf War, all the old leftists claimed they
had been against the war in Vietnam, but they were all
for the troops. Respectable conservatives nodded and drooled.
Back on planet Earth in the 1960s, the standard terms
the leftists used for American soldiers in Vietnam was
"paid killers" and "baby killers."
Some of them also bombed buildings. At Kent State, they
burned down the ROTC building and every leftist peacenik
I know of defended it.
Another thing some of those Peace Lovers used to do was
to call parents and wives of soldiers in Vietnam, pretend
to be from the Defense Department, and tell them their
son or husband had been killed in action.
But they were all for the troops. Right, respectable conservatives?
Fonda's treason during Vietnam was not unique. It is just
that that photo put her beyond the protection of respectable
conservatives. Seeing that photo, even they can't grin
and say she was just being sweet.
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