Spurred by plunging approval numbers and his failure to produce
for the American people, the president’s term will come to an early
and untimely end on May 14. It seems the public has had its fill of
liberal fantasy-land President Josiah Bartlet.
The West Wing, cancelled after seven seasons on NBC,
has been a safe haven for those who can’t bear the reality that
somewhere, out there, large groups of Americans have elected and
re-elected George W. Bush. Some say the show actually mirrored real
life in D.C. and they may be correct. After all, sometimes it’s
easier to accept that Alan Alda is a Republican senator than say,
Arlen Specter.
But Josiah Bartlet isn’t the only fantasy president cooked up by
liberals. There is apparently, another Commander in Chief, and I
don’t mean Geena Davis. This president, far from acting in the
nation’s best interests, is alternately portrayed as a
Constitution-hating dictator, an exploitive warmonger, a greedy
capitalist, a scheming theocrat, and Adolf Hitler.
These views are understandable coming from those who dwell in
the lands of chocolate New Orleans and Hillary Clinton’s illusory
plantation, but they are surely at odds with much of the country.
Yet when it comes to President Bush, the fantasies of his imminent
demise persist.
To that end, the latest liberal talking points suggest that we
are losing not only our precious civil liberties due to the
sinister machinations of “the shrub,” but the War on Terror itself.
One would think this is foolish considering that the WOT is
regarded as the president’s strongest suit, but they are not
deterred.
Liberals have long had trouble understanding the terms “winning”
and “losing” when it comes to war — see Walter Cronkite and the
Tet Offensive — so their thinking becomes even more convoluted
when discussing it. And when confronted with the question of why
there have been no further terrorist incidents here at home, it
resembles the proverbial pretzel.
One such riff goes like this: “There haven’t been any attacks
here yet because the terrorists are busy in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
When it’s suggested that maybe that was the whole idea, they begin
searching for the third eye on your forehead and move on
to their next anti-Bushism.
The latest impeachable offense is the so-called illegal
wiretapping issue. Liberals love polls, especially those that are
manipulated to reflect their views while they tend to dismiss those
that do not. But one they’ve particularly ignored suggests that the
majority of the American people are in favor of the president’s use
of warrantless wiretapping to identify domestic ties to
international terrorists.
Not only that, half of those polled feel that those who blew the
NSA’s cover are traitors rather than whistle-blowers; those
selfless heroes who are so revered by the left, unless their name
is Linda Tripp. Americans may be receptive to liberal propaganda on
many fronts but fortunately national security is not one of
them.
Undaunted by their failure to win that battle in their war on
Bush, the Democrats’ latest strategy to retake the country is to
focus on congressional ethics. But while trying to morph the
dirty-doings of a few crooked Republicans into a “culture of
corruption,” they are painting with a brush that might be too wide
for their own good.
Their self-righteous claim that they received no direct
money from Jack Abramoff is akin to Al Gore’s famous remark after
collecting sacks of money from Buddhist monks: “I did not know that
it was a fund-raiser.” That there are crooks up on Capitol Hill is
not breaking news to the American people.
Yet they are sure that GOP corruption goes straight to the top.
Their proof? Photos of President Bush with the dastardly Abramoff.
Imagine that; a man photographed thousands of times a year poses
with a big party donor. Wonder what they would think if he was
snapped with sleazy drug dealers, Red Chinese bag men, or
lascivious interns?
But at least liberals have one thing going for them, as their
ranks may soon increase. It looks like all those who ran for the
border in 2004 to escape the dreaded reign of the Prince of
Darkness and Kennebunkport will be flocking south like so many
Canadian geese as conservatives have now recaptured the Great White
North.
When does The West Wing go into syndication?
