This morning, a heinous plot to smuggle bomb components onto planes and detonate them in-flight over the Atlantic was foiled by officials in the UK. Thousands of lives were saved and a 9/11-style attack was prevented. One would think that this would be a time for both sides of the aisle to come together in unity and work to ensure that American passenger jets are safe.
Instead, the überLibs are viewing this as a "wag the dog" situation. What we have here, friends, is the primary reason the Democrats won't do as well as they hope in the midterm elections. Instead of acknowledging a real and credible threat, they pass today's announcement off as a manufactured crisis by the Bush Administration to be used as a political tactic in the elections this fall.
Clearly, they underestimate the intelligence level of the average American.
Scotland Yard reported this morning that 21 individuals were taken into custody in connection with this terror plot. They've also banned any carry on items on aircraft in the UK. Here in the US, we have banned any and all liquids past the security checkpoint: shampoo, lotions, soda, bottled water. With few exceptions, American air travelers must face longer lines at security and more stringent procedures to ensure the safety of all who travel.
So, in my mind, this begs the following question: what will it take for the überLibs to believe that any given threat is credible and not politically motivated? More hijacked planes? More dead Americans?
Therein lies the rub. If the Bush Adminstration reacts to a terror threat, it's nothing more than a political stunt in the eyes of the Democrats. If they don't, or if another terrorist attack occurs on American soil, they'll say that the Bush Administration has botched the job so bad that they got more Americans killed. While they think they are creating a "damned if you do/damned if you don't" situation, they're really just cutting themselves off at the knees.
Follow...the Democrats lost the election in 2004 because they are perceived--rightly so--as soft on national defense. If I'm a Democrat strategist, what's the most effective way to change that perception? Is it to call a real terror threat a political stunt? No, of course not. The Dems could have unified and been part of the solution today and that would have gone much farther to shaking off the perception, but they didn't.
They had a chance to come out and acknowledge the job done by the Brits today, as well as to applaud DHS and TSA for implementing new travel restrictions with only a few hours of lead time. Instead they chose to take the opportunity to criticize and level false accusations.
That's going to go a long way with the average voter, isn't it?
The Left has a fatal flaw: überLibs don't believe that the Islamofacists want to eliminate us all and destroy our way of life. They can't fathom that there's a group of human beings on the planet that want to kill as many of us as they can more than they want their own survival. We've seen what the Islamofacists can do. They have put their blatant disregard for human life and western civilization on display too many times, thanks.
How much more evidence do the Democrats need before they actually step up to the plate and do something? They want people to vote for them? Fine...show us why. Do more than say that "Bush lied and people died" and actually take a tough stand on national security. Do more than John Kerry did to say you've got a plan and then not provide any specifics on what it is. Do more than whine and complain about George W. Bush and offer an actual solution to something.
That, friends, is the other part of their fatal flaw: they can't.
The Democrats have reached a critical juncture before the midterms. They're under siege by the anti-war überLibs and, as Joe Lieberman has demonstrated however unintentionally, any left-leaning person who comes out as strong on defense doesn't have a future in this new Democrat party.
I am thankful that no one was killed today by those murderous zealots. This wasn't an exercise of politics, it was the Government doing its job in protecting America and averting a tragedy.
I truly have to wonder if the Democrats would have been to achieve the same result. That's not a political posture or a partisan statement. That's not me trying to sensationalize the topic. That's my honest to goodness fear. Historically, the Dems have not been as strong on defense and, to paraphrase George W. Bush, we have to be right every single time. The terrorists only have to be right once.
One time. That's all it takes.
We can't afford the fatal flaw of the überLibs becoming the fatal flaw of each and every one of us.
William Smith
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