How Far Did General PetraeusMove the Debate on War?THE DEFEATIST CORNER DEMOCRATS HAVE PAINTED THEMSELVES INTO

by Mondoreb

From the Captain's Quarters:

How far has General David Petraeus moved the debate on Iraq? His testimony on the surge, and the effects of the surge itself, has made it much more difficult for Democrats to argue for withdrawal and defeat. In fact, at last night's debate, the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination couldn't even commit to a withdrawal.

Slowly, like a noose tightening around their necks, the leading Democratic candidates are starting to realize something: while the War in Iraq is not popular, a large percentage of American adults realize it was necessary.

The constant Democrat pandering to the Huffington Post and TheDailyKOS crowd is not without it's consequences. Come November next year Americans will cast ballots on a President. Many of those voters will vote on the person they feel can defend the country best in a time of war. Looking over the entire Democrat line-up does nothing to inspire those voters who consider national defense a key to their vote.

Regardless of what the Nutroots, the Mainstream Media and the Democratic candidates shovel out onto the news compost, a majority of Americans seem to liken the War in Iraq to cleaning out a hornets' nest in the garage: an unpleasant task, but it has to be done. And forget anyone else coming over to your garage to do it for you.

The Democrat Debate last night provided evidence of the dilemma the Dems have charged into. None now guaranteed a speedy withdrawal. TheDailyKOSsacks must have been spazzing out in suburban basements all across America. The 'Mad Pakistani Bomber', B. Hussein Obama: "I think it's hard to project four years from now," (from Yahoo News.


Perhaps the Democrats paused over this week's Rasmussen Poll which found that only 28% supported the abhorent MoveOn.org ad on "General Betray Us". 58% disapproved. Maybe Congressional Dems might want to rethink their disgusting attempts at turning the Petraeus Report hearings into one long Democrat Party election soundbite.

The Petraeus Report hearings will make an election commercial all right. Just not the one that opportunistic, defeatist Democrat Party pols thought they were getting.


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TODAY's DEMOCRAT PARTY: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Leadership

by Mondoreb
The Democrat Party has control of the Senate(Harry Reid), control of the House(Nancy Pelosi) and more presidential candidates than Rosie has chins. From these vast resources, one would think that a leader would emerge--any leader.

Yet, nothing save the same tired rhetoric stumbles from these strongholds. Whether it is nurturing and preserving capital in the world's bastion of Capitalism or fighting the War on Terror, responsible Americans tune out the Dems.

New ideas? Forget it, the Democrats (and liberals in general) have had only one interesting idea in the last 40 years: using tax credits as an innovative method of financing Social Security reform. However, as this is an issue that Dems refuse to even discuss, it's almost an 0-for.

The Democrats leadership was on display this week at the Petraeus hearings: pandering to "new center of the Democratic Party", the DailyKOS kooks, Democrat after Democrat exhibited the usual eternal thirst for trying to score political points. There was no interest in leading Americans anywhere, except perhaps into one of the myriad interest groups which make up the modern Dem party.

A vigorous nation has to have two viable political parties in order to thrive. Ideas need to be debated seriously. When one side effects the attitude of 17-year-old Valley Girls--I'm bored, it's too hard to be serious--the national conversation on vital issues suffers. When you have no new ideas, the only strategy is to smear anyone who disagrees the Dem viewpoint.

The Democrats spend millions on political consultants. Is there not one who will honestly say, "Americans have only given us a majority of votes in a presidential election 3 times in the last 58 years. Something is wrong"?

History will be fair to G.W. Bush for undertaking and persevering in a war that has become unpopular. Harry Truman's historical stock is far higher now than it was during the Korean War. History will largely assign today's Democrats to the dungheap, along side their ancestors in the Copperhead wing of the Democratic Party during the Civil War.

Leadership means getting out in front, explaining unpopular issues to the electorate and expending political capital for the 'good fight'. The Dems of today are the rigid, reactionary government Establishment: carping, criticizing, destructive. If they wish to be more than the sad collection of pandering hacks they've become, they'll have to take time out from their focus groups; stop their political hair-splitting; stop putting their collective fingers in the wind.

Propose some constructive alternatives and drop the Valley Girl whine.
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Petraeus Report: The Only War Democrats are Willing to Fight

by LITTLE BABY GINN and MONDOREB


The Left's usual, reliable poodles are yapping again. This time, they're nipping at the heels of the upcoming report by General Petraeus on the situation in Iraq.

Fueled by this MoveOn.org ad in the New York Times this morning, the LA Times, Yahoo News, and like-minded MSM toadies, the 'surrender drums' are beating louder for a US defeat in Iraq, by any means necessary. It's a steady, unrelenting, unyielding, never-ending 'BOOM, BOOM, BOOM' from Leftards desperately needing, yearning, aching for a US defeat--any US defeat. They would support another invasion of Viet Nam if they were assured that US troops would die and we would run away.

If a US defeat might be possible, Harry Reid couldn't be pried away from it with a truckload of earmarks. On Friday, The Pride of the Democratic Party weighed in on General Patraeus:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid got personal, questioning Petraeus' credibility:
"He's made a number of statements over the years that have not proved to be factual," Reid said. "I have every belief that this good man, General Petraeus, will give us what he feels is the right thing to do in the report that is now not his report. It's President Bush's report."

So, a senator who bankrolls half his family on US Senate Pork, paid for by US taxpayers, is pronouncing moral judgements on a military man who's risked his life so that Reid can throw one more syncophantic log on his payroll fire? Am I the only one that thinks this is Democratic Buffoonery at it's most absurd?
Reid hungers for defeat as a crack whore hungers for a $10 trick. It's disgusting to watch. Even more so, it's a certainty that Reid the Meek would be leading the Democratic Whine Brigades should another terror attack hits the US.

He'll primp and skip in front of the cameras. "Why didn't we do more", he'll demand in front of the Running Dog Media. And the Peace Movement will march in support of anything they hope will defeat America: the country that's made it possible for them to march--thus giving meaning to otherwise unfulfilled, meaningless lives.

I expect the goofy, aimless Peace Movement to do their thing during times of war. Without the War in Iraq, they'd be nailing themselves to trees or hunger-striking for 'Rainforest Whales', or agonizing over whether they should have the mocha or the double latte.

And I expect MoveOn.org to attack America: it's what they do. If I were a billionaire, ala George Soros, I'd probably seek meaning to my life, too.

But to the men and women in the US Senate and Congress: laboring at comforting America's enemies in a time of war; slandering those who risk their lives defending this country; sacrificing the defense of the USA for partisan gain; to you I say:

"A particularly hot place in the inner ring of Hell eagerly awaits your wretched demise."

SOURCES:
LA TIMES
Harry Reid: Patraeus No Good
LA TIMES

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