http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_mi_070621_if_reid_were_rove.htm...Have you heard about the two American soldiers captured and gone missing in Iraq? Maybe, maybe not. Well, if Reid were Rove, you’d never hear the end of it. It would be a national obsession, just like OJ and Natalee Holloway and Paris Hilton and god-help-us-whoever-is-the-personal-story-blown-completely-out-of-proportion-du-jour – and, indeed, just like the American hostages in Iran were, all the way back in the hopelessly naive days before Reagan. It would be all hostage, all the time. ‘News’casts, especially some lefty equivalent of Fox that knew where its corporate bread was buttered, would keep a relentless clock running, and you’d never hear the end of "America Held Hostage, Day 43!", as if two soldiers were an entire country of 300 million.
The president would be increasingly portrayed as weak and ineffective as he was unable to rescue these two heroes. Of course, that would mean that he would lash out with some act of semi-random violence in order to be seen to be doing something, anything, probably the only result of which would be a boatload of senseless violence and death, likely to include the two soldiers themselves. But when practicing cynical politics, one doesn’t worry about such trivialities.
If Reid were Rove, the only consideration would be winning, and American hostages make lovely tools for that purpose...
...If Reid were Rove, Democrats would make sure we saw endless loops of the president looking under his desk for the missing WMD and turning their absence into a joke. Then we’d be reminded that over 3500 Americans have gone to Iraq, supposedly to protect us from those WMD, and have since returned in body bags. While the president who sent them there clowns. Maybe it’s just me, but somehow, I don’t think the White House attempt at humor would appear quite so funny in 2007...
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If Reid were Rove, you’d never hear the end of how Bush’s wondrous Department of Homeland Security (which, we’d be reminded, doesn’t include the CIA or the FBI) allowed a guy to enter the country carrying a deadly strain of tuberculosis, even though he was on the no-fly list. We’d be asked over and over again how we could expect to be safe from terrorism with a government that can’t even deal with a known medical threat crossing our borders...In fact, if Reid were Rove, we’d be reminded that today is Day 2098 of the unsolved anthrax attack from 2001. And that tomorrow is Day 2099. And that the next day is...
...But Reid is not Rove, and so you don’t see any of this, and you’re not likely to. Is it because Democrats are morally superior to the GOP and to conservatives when it comes to the game of politics? To their credit, yes. Who could not be, when compared to these human horror movies of the right? But there’s more to the story, as well.
Democrats are also embarrassing wimps, afraid to throw a punch, and often even to block one. And, they are complicit in far too many ways in the depravities of the right, even if they mostly just go along for the ride...READ ON
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