Watched Hannity and Colmes last night and this morning (Tivo); they had Newt Gingrich on. Fun stuff. Colmes asking reasonable wussy questions and Hannity basically saying that Democrats who don't support their president are traitorous scum. I mean he didn't say that openly, of course; just suggested that our enemies will be watching the polls to see who the American people support.
Cal Thomas suggest the same thing in his column today. "Terrorists know they cannot win a conventional war against a behemoth power like the United States. But they also know the United States might lose heart and cut and run. It has happened before - in Vietnam and Lebanon and Mogadishu. That is what they are counting on. The president's speech gives them no reason to expect retreat. America's enemies will be watching the polls to see if citizen resolve matches that of the president."
The Right have apparently decided that President Bush's plan to fight terror is the only possible solution; and to fight against it is to fight against protecting America from Terrorists. Now I'll admit that some of the candidates have been more vocal in their criticisms of the President's plan than they have been in putting forward their own. Part of that is the influence of TV. The Democratic Candidates' attacks on the President are better television; you can show a two second clip of Gephardt saying that the President's plan has been a miserable failure and hold peoples interest. Try showing the five minutes when he lays out his plan and all America (or so they believe) reaches for its remote.
To sum up; it is entirely possible to think that the President's plan to fight terrorism is crap without wanting terrorists to come here and invade the United States.
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