Kristen Breitwieser over at the HuffPo explains why this election is one of those rare events in American politics – an election that is not local.
Usually, during an election, Americans vote for the person rather than the party. But when the party is as corrupt, vile and un-American as the republican party has become citizens of good conscience simply cannot – and should not – vote for a politician who is a member of a party that has been responsible for the assaults upon our constitution and our national soul that the republicans have been responsible for under the reign of George Bush.
I’ve never considered myself a Yellow Dog Democrat but this November 7th if the Democrats were to run a yellow dog in my congressional district I’d gladly vote for it even if it’s opponent were Abe Lincoln himself.
Kristen’s entire piece is here,
“Go ahead. Call me a Democrat. But, I am not; I’m anti-terrorist–which means that I cannot support the Republican agenda.
Go ahead. Call me crazy. But, I am not. I favor common-sense logic, sound judgment, and smart leadership proven by and rooted in truth and reality–which means that I cannot support the Republican agenda. Truth and Reality: Five years since 9/11, the Republicans have done more to further the terrorist agenda than Osama Bin Laden could have ever hoped for on the morning of 9/11.
The Republican’s pre-emptive war in Iraq gave Bin Laden exactly what he dreamt about on the morning of 9/11: it has strengthened terrorist organizations worldwide; made American Republican policy makers and leaders look weak, ignorant, and arrogant; drained U.S. military personnel ranks and morale; eaten up massive amounts of our national budget; destabilized the world; harmed the U.S.’s reputation in the world; weakened U.S. Constitutional principles and the ideals of free and democratic society; allowed North Korea and Iran to not only become emboldened but also real, credible threats to American security; and left our homeland defense alarmingly vulnerable to a dizzying array of future terrorist attacks (i.e. biological, chemical, nuclear, aerial, nautical, etc).
In short, Republican leadership since 9/11 has been (to quote our Defense Secretary) a “catastrophic success.” “Catastrophic” to us Americans. And a “success” to the terrorists bent on killing us.
Republicans scare us with their smoke and mirrors; their quick double-talk and their expensive campaign tactics, advertisements, and distractions. None of which are rooted in truth or reality. Republicans boast that they are the only ones to keep us safe from terrorists. Republicans have threatened that a vote for a Democrat is a vote for the terrorists. Republicans draw attention to the fact that we haven’t had another attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
But, the aftermath of the Republicans maintaining their majority in Congress will likely bring: more worldwide instability; more unjustified and illegal wars against the wrong targets; more U.S. soldiers’ lives placed in danger to defend dead wrong Republican policies; thousands of innocent lives lost in the cross-fire of the Republicans’ lethal “stay the course” agenda; and apparently a never-ending and ever-ballooning vulnerability to our homeland security due to Republican bad judgment and misfit priorities.
Know this: the Republicans have had five years to make this nation markedly (not merely marginally) safer from terrorist attack. They’ve chosen not to do so.
The Republicans have had nearly three years to enact the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. They’ve chosen not to do so.
Once the war in Afghanistan was justifiably under way, the only thing the Republican’s have chosen to do in the past five years is to start an illegal and deadly war in Iraq that has made our nation (and the rest of the world) less safe and made mass-murderers like Osama Bin Laden more lethal.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has committed to enacting the 9/11 Commission’s Recommendations within the first 100 hours of the Democrats taking power in the House. To me, that sounds like smart leadership. To me, that sounds like someone who knows how to fight terrorists. To me, that sounds like a leader who is rooted in truth and reality.”
And if you’re one of those mouth breathing cretins who needs to parrot Ken “I’m Secretly Gay But I Take It Up The Ass Really Quietly So As Not To Offend The Religious Right” Mehlman and the RNC and say “yeah, but the Democrats haven’t come forward with any plans of their own.” I’d say firstly, “thats not their job you asshole, thats the job of the national command authority (the president)” and then I’d ask you this,
Do you really think electing Democrats across the board could be any worse than what you’ve already saddled this country with? Do you honestly believe that the Dems could possibly do worse than George Felix Allen, Conrad Burns, Bob Ney, Mark Foley, Rick Santorum, Denny Hastert, Duke Cunningham, Tom Delay, Scooter Libby, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney or George “There Hasn’t Been A Business I’ve Ever Been Involved In That I Haven’t Fucked Up” Bush? Do you really think it’s possible to do worse?
I could replace all of those guys with the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and the Little Rascals and have a more competent government than we have now.
President Alfalfa
Sec. of Defense Buckwheat
The President’s Cabinet
