Bad Week For Democrats

"Never give a sucker an even break" -- W.C. Fields

This hasn't been a good week for the Democrats. Democrat hack Ronnie Earle had one bogus charge thrown out in the Tom Delay case. John Kerry used an unfortunate choice of words in an interview on CBS's Sunday news program, Face the Nation. And Howard Dean opened his mouth and once again, inserted his foot.

In the Delay case, the Charge of conspiracy was thrown out because it was proven that the law that Earle claims Delay broke was not a law when the so-called "crime" occurred. Once the other charges go before a jury, they will be dismissed, too. Mr. Earle will have to find another Republican to harass.

John Kerry (Viet Nam war veteran) chose some unfortunate words when he said, "There is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the -- of -- the historical customs, religious customs. ... Iraqis should be doing that."


Although the last thing I would want to do is defend Mr. Kerry, I believe in being fair, and in this case, I think it is only fair to point out that the only thing Kerry did this time, was to fail to clarify what exactly, he was trying to say.

This is how I see it: He was referring to the American soldiers going into houses searching for al-Qaida operatives, and disrupting the lives of the poor terrorist sympathizers who live in them. I am sure they have, on occasion, mistakingly entered the wrong houses and I can imagine that the innocents in those cases would indeed be frightened.

I think if there are women and children harboring terrorists, they don't have a complaint if a squad of soldiers invade their home. If they are innocent, they won't be harrassed, anyway.

Personally, it vexes me to hear Conservatives intentionally misinterpret what amounts to nothing more than an honest mistake on a Liberals part. There are so many intentional stupid remarks and lies they can point to without resorting to what is usually a Liberal tactic.

Still, he did say Iraqis should be the ones doing the terrorizing, didn't he?

What's even more outrageous is the fact that his spokesman didn't simply explain Kerry's intention the way I did, but instead launched an invective filled attack at those who reported it in an unfavorable light:

"Ken Mehlman's filthy and shameful lie about a decorated combat veteran is disgraceful. Political hack Ken Mehlman and draft-dodging doughnut-eating Rush Limbaugh have something in common. Neither of them know anything about how to make American troops safe".

So often, Democrats attack instead of admitting mistakes, which would have been easier and less offensive. Now, we are left wondering if maybe Kerry really meant what he said after all.

On the other hand, Howard Dean was just being typically (for him, at least) moronic, when he said:

""I wish the President had paid more attention to the history of Iraq before we had gotten in there. The idea that we're going to win this war is just plain wrong."

This is just another in a long litany of stupid statements he has made since he became Democratic Party Chairman. Would anyone like to take bets on when the Democrats finally jettison this human flotsam?

Here, again, instead of apologizing and/or at least owning up to the fact that he said something moronic (again), Chairman Dean's spokesmen went into full CYA mode by attempting to explain his statement away:

"Here we go again, the Republicans are cherry picking Governor Dean's words just like they cherry picked the pre-war intelligence."

By the way, even many Democrats are backing away this time. Some have said "he doesn't speak for them" and what he has said is "an embarrassment".

Here is what is really happening in Iraq instead of losing, as the Democrats would have us believe:

The Department of Defense reports that the citizens of Ramadi have turned in an al Qaeda terrorist known as "the Butcher of Ramadi." The townspeople brought him to an Iraqi and U.S. forces military base, where he was taken into custody. He was wanted for criminal activities including murder and kidnapping.

In one of his recent speeches, President Bush noted that the number of actionable intelligence tips received from Iraqi citizens is up about ten fold since earlier this year (from something like 400 per month to more than 4,000). This clearly is an important sign of progress, and the handing over by Iraqi citzens of "the Butcher of Ramadi" constitutes good anecdotal evidence of that progress.

It seems that the Democrat leadership are the suckers, and Conservatives don't intend to give them an even break. And why should they? Democrats would certainly do the same if the roles were reversed.