democRATs in BIG BIG Trouble!
The Party Of Ideas
November 20, 2003
The Brilliant & Beautiful Ann Coulter
(Attn. Liberals: Insert your usual vicious, left-wing, hate-filled
personal attacks HERE if unable to refute the article... as Usual!)
WITH ECONOMIC growth and name recognition of the average democRATic
presidential candidate both running at about 7 percent, the democRATs
are in trouble. Unable to rouse more than the Saddam-supporting left
with their kooky foreign-policy ideas, the democRATs had been counting
on a lousy economy.
It turns out that, given a choice between "shock and awe" and "run and
hide," the American people prefer the former. Now that the Bush tax
cuts have already started to kick in and boost the economy, it was
beginning to look as if the Treason Lobby would have nothing to run
on.
But the democRATs have discovered a surprise campaign issue: It turns
out that several of them have had a death in the family. Not only
that, but many democRATs have cracker-barrel humble origins stories
and a Jew or lesbian in the family. ***** Gephardt's campaign platform
is that his father was a milkman, his son almost died and his daughter
is a lesbian. Vote for me!
So don't say the democRATs aren't the party of ideas. As they keep
reminding us, their ideas are just too darn complex to fit on a bumper
sticker. Consequently, the democRATs can't tell us their ideas until
after the election. Instead, their version of a political campaign is
to stage a "Queen for a Day" extravaganza - which has special
resonance in the case of the democRATs.
Al Gore famously inaugurated the family tragedy routine at the 1992
democRATic National Convention, where his idea of an inspiring
political speech was to recount the story of his son being hit by a
car. At the 1996 convention, Gore told a tear-jerker about his
sister's long, painful death from lung cancer. It got to the point
that Gore's family members had to fear any more runs for higher
office.
In the current campaign, Gephardt has taken to spinning out a long,
pitiful tale of his son's near-death three decades ago. If a lingering
family medical tragedy is the main qualification for becoming a
democRATic presidential candidate, what's Michael Schiavo waiting for?
At dozens of campaign stops, Mrs. Gephardt weeps anew as her husband
tells the same gut-wrenching story over and over again. The relevance
of his son's illness to Gephardt's run for the presidency is this: It
inspired Gephardt's call for national health insurance. With his wife
softly weeping in the background, he intones, "I get it."
At least when Gephardt exploits a family tragedy, he doesn't expect
praise for not exploiting a family tragedy. John Edwards injects his
son's fatal car accident into his campaign by demanding that everyone
notice how he refuses to inject his son's fatal car accident into his
campaign.
Edwards has talked about his son's death in a 1996 car accident on
"Good Morning America," in dozens of profiles and in his new book.
("It was and is the most important fact of my life.") His 1998 Senate
campaign ads featured film footage of Edwards at a learning lab he
founded in honor of his son, titled "The Wade Edwards Learning Lab."
He wears his son's Outward Bound pin on his suit lapel. He was going
to wear it on his sleeve, until someone suggested that might be a
little too "on the nose."
If you want points for not using your son's death politically, don't
you have to take down all those "Ask me about my son's death in a
horrific car accident" bumper stickers? Edwards is like a politician
who keeps announcing that he will not use his opponent's criminal
record for partisan political advantage. I absolutely refuse to
mention the name of my dearly beloved and recently departed son killed
horribly in a car accident, which affected me deeply, to score cheap
political points.
I wouldn't want John Edwards to be president, but I think even Karl
Rove would be willing to stipulate that the death of a son is a
terrible thing.
Howard Dean talks about his brother Charlie's murder at the hands of
North Vietnamese communists. Bizarrely, after working on the failed
George McGovern campaign, Charlie Dean went to Indochina in 1974 to
witness the ravages of the war he had opposed. Not long after he
arrived, the apparently ungrateful communists captured and killed him.
Hey fellas! I'm on your s-- CLUNK!
Howard Dean wears his brother's battered 1960s belt every day. (By
contrast, Ted Kennedy honors the memory of his deceased family members
with several belts every day.) Dean told Dan Rather about his
brother's death at some length on CBS News: "It gave me a sense that
you ought to live for the moment with people; that you really - you
really need to tell people you love them if you love them. It was
certainly the most awful thing that ever happened to our family. It
was terrible for my parents; it was even worse
for them than it was for us."
Dammit, if a man wants to be my president, I have a right to know
where he stands on the issue of when to tell the people you love that
you love them! Couldn't the democRATic Party go back to plagiarizing
British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock like Sen. Joe Biden, rather
than plagiarizing "Lifetime: TV for Women"? Do any men at all vote for
the democRATs anymore?
Carol Moseley Braun's personal tragedy is that she's being forced to
run for president even though it turns out the democRATs won't need
her to split the black vote anyway. Please, can I drop out now? Al
Sharpton is only polling at 2 percent. I hate this!
Sharpton is the counterpoint to his sob sisters in the democRATic
Party. Sharpton libeled innocent men in the Tawana Brawley case. He
inflamed angry mobs in Brooklyn's Crown Heights, leading to the murder
of Yankel Rosenbaum. He incited an anti-Semitic pogrom against a
Jewish-owned clothing store in Harlem, Freddy's, ending in a blaze of
bullets and fire that left several employees dead. So while the other
democRATs talk about their personal tragedies, Sharpton goes around
creating personal tragedies.
In addition to having a number of family deaths among them, the
democRATs' other big idea - too nuanced for a bumper sticker - is that
many of them have Jewish ancestry. There's Joe Lieberman: Always
Jewish. Wesley Clark: Found Out His Father Was Jewish in College. John
Kerry: Jewish Since He Began Presidential Fund-Raising. Howard Dean:
Married to a Jew. Al Sharpton: Circumcised. Even Hillary Clinton
claimed to have unearthed some evidence that she was a Jew - along
with the long lost evidence that she was a Yankees fan. And that, boys
and girls, is how the Jews survived thousands of years of persecution:
by being susceptible to pandering.
Clark said that when he discovered he was half-Jewish, he remembered
growing up in Arkansas and feeling "a certain kinship" with Jewish
families in the dry-goods business. (I, too, have always felt a
certain kinship with Calvin Trillin.)
The democRATs' urge to assert a Jewish heritage is designed to
disguise the fact that the democRATs would allow the state of Israel
to perish as Palestinian suicide bombers slaughter Jewish women and
children. Their
humble-origins claptrap is designed to disguise the fact that liberals
think ordinary people are racist scum. Their perverse desire to
discuss the deaths and near-deaths of their children is designed to
disguise the fact that they support the killing of more than a million
unborn children every year. (Oh, by the way, what did their milkman
and millworker fathers think about abortion?)
If the democRATs start extolling you - get a gun.
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Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, selfish, intolerant,
bigoted and racist.
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