Being conservative on the west side of LA is, shall we say, very interesting. I often wonder if I had pro-GOP stickers on my vehicle, or were to start wearing pro-conservative attire out in public if it might not be hazardous to my health, or my paint. I know for a fact that it would be extremely detrimental to our family income. The level of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) out here is way past level orange, and people are aghast if they find out that you are a Republican. At my precinct, their are 4-5 to 1 Democrat to GOP voting stalls. It may be just my imagination, but I swear that the volunteers shudder a little and then shake their heads sadly when they hear me asking for a GOP ballot. But hey, this is America, and they can all get over it!

The real question is: How long can our great country last if we follow the Liberal doctrine of Cut & Run in regards to the war in Iraq and the GWOT itself. With House and Senate Democratic leaders ready to abandon the Iraqi people at the very juncture of their securing their independence from generations of tyranny, with the likes of Kennedy, Pelosi, Harmon, Boxer and Doggett ready to stick their heads in the sand — hoping that the big, bad Islamists will just go away already. Kinda like the infantile thought process of if I can’t see you, you’re no longer there.” Can the Democrats be saved from themselves, or are they doomed to an ever escalating slide further to the Left? Hugh Hewitt’s answer to that is succinct:

But it is too late. The Kos-led attempted purge of Joe Lieberman is just the first exercise of the extremists’ new power within the party. Once Harry Reid showed up at YearlyKos to praise the virtual mob, the direction of the party was cemented.

If Democrats win either house, the United States will simply abandon Iraq, and with it, any forward strategy in the war against the Islamists. It will be a replay of the Democrats’ abandonment of southeast Asia in the ’70s, but this time the massacres that follow won’t be limited to the countries left behind.

It’s hard for this ol’ Okie to comprehend that there are so many Americans that refuse to try and understand the world’s political situation from a reality-based viewpoint. The Left is so focused on its own narcissism — the politics of “gay marriage”, “abortion”, “embryonic stem-cell research”, “multiculturalism”, “purging all religion from the public square (except for Islam and Atheism of course), “state provided & run free health care”, “taxing the rich to pay for everything” and “providing indoctrination into Progressivism for all via a free college education” — that it has no stomach for the hard work of defeating a determined, brutal, ideology-driven foe like the Islamic Fascists as embodied by al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Hugh links to this explanation by Mark Steyn:

And what I think people should understand is that whatever the argument for going into Iraq, once you’re in it, you’ve got to have even better arguments for getting out of a was without victory. And I think for America to actually announce an exit strategy, to say you’re right, this is a disaster, we’re getting out of here, we’re going home, it would end the American moment. If America cannot even withstand in fact what is a relatively successful operation in Iraq, if even that is too traumatizing for a society of 300 million, then that’s the end of the American moment. There’s no reason for Russia and China to pay any attention to America ever again. Not only that, there’s no reason for Belgium or Luxembourg to take America seriously ever again. It’s over. You go the John Kerry route, it’s over. And if Americans really want to be the kind of defeatist loser nation that Kerry-Kennedy & Co. paint them as, so be it.

Steyn does go on to say that he believes that the GOP will maintain control of Congress this fall. One can only hope so — unless one is a Kos-led, self-absorbed narcissistic nutter. Now, where’s my “Vote Republican” tee shirt? (db)

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