Posted 1:02 AM by Steve
Why "elitist" Democrats hate America.

a response to Jane Smiley's slate.com rant


First off, please note that "elitist" is in quotations. Here is why:

Democrats and the left, when it comes to politics and world events, are sort of like the "average white male" when it comes to sports. Every "average white male" thinks that they know everything about sports because they have watched them all their lives. If you walk into a barber shop and start talking hoops a 5'3" 250lb. man will not hesitate to tell you why Kobe is the best player and Shaq is a bum or vice-versa without having a shred of actual knowledge or athletic experience. Similarly, Democrats and the left tend to be "slightly" educated. In their "symbolism-over-substance" world education is often confused with wisdom. In this crazy leftist lens, a jobless, bike riding youth with a degree in english literature has more creedence than a man with a high school education who has worked for 40 years to build a profitable business and feed his family.

The left believes they are sophisticated, saavy and worldly. They truly believe that those who disagree with them are "ignorant". As usual the opposite is true. The same people that shop at video stores that carry "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Reifenstahl" fall hook, line and sinker for a demogogue like Michael Moore and his modern day "Triumph of the Will". How do I know? Because I used to work in that store.

They truly believe that every conservative is a bible-thumping, gun toting pick-up truck driving racist. The fact is that it's these same enlightened "elitists" that cross the street and clutch their purses when a person of color walks down the street. I have yet to meet a left-leaning biblical scholar.

They make assumptions about conservatives based on idiotic prejudices and then claim that they are "tolerant".

Ms. Smiley states that "red state types love to cheat and intimidate, so we have to assume the worst and call them on it every time." Not surprisingly, she cannot cite a single specific incident. Considering the plethora of reports during this election that prove exactly the opposite, this is an orwellian stroke of genius. Democrats have tried to intimidate voters, have violently stormed and ransacked Bush/Cheney headquarters in three states and fired weapons into at least one Bush Cheney office in Tennessee. Democrats have even traded a drug addict crack cocaine for new voter registrations that included known terrorists.

Posted 1:51 AM by Steve
What does the re-election of President George W. Bush mean?

It means Americans will not be intimidated by extremist thugs and the desperate atrocities of terrorist vermin.

It means that just because many Americans are obsessed with celebrity and obsess over what Hollywood stars and starlets are wearing, who they are dating or marrying that day, and the lifestyle of opulence and hedonism they have, few Americans pay heed to what Hollywood stars think about politics, the world, and reality.

It means that thanks to the plethora of blogs, chat rooms, message boards and the near omnipresence of e-mail, a scathingly hostile and biased media no longer has a monopoly or control of information.

It means that Americans believe in the short-term strategy of protecting this great nation against terrorist attacks AND the long-term strategy of "draining the swamp" ; transforming a terror-incubating region like the Middle East into a peaceful, productive and free democratic region.

It means that Afghanistan and Iraq were the right wars in the right places for the right reasons.

It means that fickle undecided voters and o'er hasty exit polls mean little in the final analysis. What an election comes down to is a unified and mobilized core group of voters who are willing to pitch in their time, effort and energy to get something accomplished.

It means that an arrogant Billionaire and hollywood millionaires can't purchase the White House no matter how much they spend.

George W. Bush, the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House, increased his own vote by over 3.5 million. He is the first president to win more than 50% of the popular vote since 1988. In a huge turn-out election the president received more than 59 million votes, surpassing Ronald Reagan's old record of 54.5 million.

The media, hollywood elites, many in Europe, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Jon Stewart, and Bill Maher want you to believe that the 59 million Americans who voted for Bush are dumb.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The 59 million Bush voters were clever and resourceful enough to sort through the biggest propaganda campaign since the Cold War: A series of huge distortions by the left-leaning, hostile media, bush-bashing around the globe, and an anti-Bush feature motion picture that only Leni Reifenstahl could be proud of.

The voters informed themselves despite of, not because, of the media this year and, in fact, the bias that has been lamented by the right for years no longer feels the need to hide it's grotesque head. The facade of objectivity is smashed.

Lastly, the re-election of President George W. Bush means that the economy will continue to grow and expand and Americans will continue to enjoy a rising standard of living. We will continue to prosecute the war on terror without ambivalence, weakness, or second guessing.



God Bless America and it's intelligent (and stubborn) voters!

Posted 3:03 PM by Steve
What conservatives must demand from Bush

1. We need more fiscal responsibility. Republicans must remain the party of fiscal responsibility and work to bring down the deficit and debt. A balanced budget should be the goal. Increasing the overall size of the economy will restraining spending will be a good start.

2. Republicans must remain the friend of business. Business is, after all, the backbone of our economy. When business succeeds, investors, owners, managers, employees and consumers all benefit.

3. More victories on the war on terror. Iraq and Afghanistan are important, and we have taken out much of al-Qaeda's network, but we must continue to put the pressure, both militarily and diplomatically on those enemies that would seek to harm American interests. We found Saddam in a spider hole and all of America will rejoice when Bin Laden is found in similarly humiliating circumstances.

4. We must keep our promises to seniors and make sure our obligations to future generations are secured.

5. Finally, we need the Bush administration to do a much better job of communicating with the American people. It has been a mistake to avoid dealing with a combative press and allow left-wing idealogues to set the agenda and tone of the political debate in this country. Ronald Reagan knew the importance of communication and just because George W. Bush isn't the best communicator doesn't mean he can't get better.

Posted 1:54 PM by Steve
MANDATE!!! BUSH BREAKS ALL-TIME POPULAR VOTE TOTAL, SURPASSING REAGAN...

This is a huge victory and a huge rebuke of the liberal, left-wing vitriol and hate that was spewed with the funding of arrogant billionaires and millionaire Hollywood stars. Thank you America!

Posted 9:13 PM by Steve
REALITY CHECK


The United States and its allies have distrupted, destroyed and infiltrated terror networks on every populated continent. International terrorists, their leaders, and state sponsors of terrorism have surrendering, been captured or killed.

Terrorist commanders from Iraq to Indonesia face life sentences in prison or await execution. Those who remain find their networks in tatters, their funding sources starting to dry up and fewer places to hide.

Things have changed since 9/11. The terrorists now are the prey, though still a dangerous one.

Despite deep and emotional divisions over the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the Arab-Israeli hostilities, the overwhelming success of the U.S.-led offensive against the world's terrorists and their friends has started to transform the world.

The United States still has strong allies in all the relevant nations.

President George W. Bush has racked up an impressive string of victories. He led an unheard-of Marine invasion and Naval bombardment of landlocked Afghanistan, destroying the terrorist, Wahhabi-backed Taliban regime, tearing up the sanctuaries of al-Qaeda and freeing a grateful people from a Dark Ages nightmare. He commanded an audacious and spectacularly successful invasion of Iraq, breaking records of military history in a campaign that ousted Saddam Hussein and ripped up the totalitarian Ba'athist Party.

Human casualties have been relatively low and, even with occasional insurgent activity and car-bombs, Iraq is a safer place than it was prior to the removal of Saddam Hussein.

No major terrorist attack has succeeded on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, and the terrorists have far less freedom to operate as the war goes on around the world. The State Department's annual report on terrorism, released earlier this year, shows a 44 percent drop in attacks by "international terrorists" in 2002 from the previous year and down to its lowest level since 1969 - more than three decades ago.

Even some of the regimes the State Department has designated as state sponsors of terrorism, including Syria and Sudan, have found it necessary to extend varying degrees of cooperation. "Friendly" governments such as Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf state of Qatar have stopped, as far as can be seen, funding Taliban-like movements that sheltered al-Qaeda. European allies, some supportive of U.S. policy and others openly critical, actively have been working together and with Washington to defund and neutralize terrorist entities. Asian allies, particularly the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, have put their combat forces to work as well as their police.

Quick actions by the United States and other countries have foiled plans for scores - some say hundreds - of terrorist attacks and have disrupted or destroyed terror networks from Manila to Miami. Even Saudi Arabia and Iran are cracking down at home on al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

"Since Sept. 11, 2001, more than 3,000 al-Qaeda leaders and foot soldiers have been taken into custody around the globe, nearly 200 suspected terrorist associates have been charged with crimes in the U.S. and as many as 100 terrorist attacks or plots have been broken up worldwide," the FBI says in an assessment statement. Some administration officials estimate privately that the United States and its partners have killed thousands of terrorists and trainees. More than half of the senior leadership of al-Qaeda has been captured or killed, according to an official Justice Department estimate.

New laws and legal procedures, especially the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, have provided the FBI and others with the authority to go after terrorist cells at home much more aggressively - so much so that civil libertarians have joined with terrorist-linked groups to complain. The Treasury Department's March 2002 raids of suspected terrorist financing fronts in Northern Virginia were possible in part because the USA PATRIOT Act had provided additional authority for federal judges to issue search warrants, according to a sealed federal affidavit in support of the raids.