April 08, 2004

Steyn on Dems & the Terror War. "If you take a walk on the wilder side with the cyber crazies, you realise that the real liability for the Democratic party is not the loonies but the leadership: though they’re more tonally savvy and use fewer four-letter words, the party’s most prominent figures have signed on to the same worldview as the nutters — the war in Iraq was a crock cooked up by Cheney to enrich his oil buddies, etc. Somewhere between Afghanistan and Iowa, a bunch of hitherto dull, unremarkable senators bought into the central tenet of the deranged Left — that hatred for the Bushitler trumps all other considerations. Or as Al Gore recently howled, trying out his latest new accent, ‘Heee-aaaah be-aaah-tray-ud us!’ The degrees of separation between the fringe and the mainstream have vanished: Ted Kennedy quotes approvingly Karen Kwiatkowski, who calls the US a ‘maturing Fascist state’ and predicts senior administration officials will wind up ‘sitting beside Hussein in the war crimes tribunal’ .. ". More MARK STEYN. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack