Reading Bill Murchinson's article today on The Disunited States of America. Nice article. Says directly what many of his colleagues are dancing around. Running against President Bush for President gives comfort to the enemies of the United States.
"Maybe, provided you believe polls produced nine months before the election, the president is about to retire in disgrace: a political Bernie Ebbers. Whatever the case, we should brace for the possibility of a campaign in which the leader of the war on terrorism is daily called, by many of his own constituents, a fraud and a betrayer.
If you were an Iraqi Baathist or a Shiite ayatollah, an American infantry corporal or a potential Islamic suicide bomber, a French foreign secretary or a United Nations diplomatist, how would you receive the news that Americans are fed up, potentially, with the president who started this war? Would this encourage or discourage you concerning prospects for the drip-drip of American hands being washed, Pontius Pilate-style, of a deadly and burdensome commitment?"
Well there it is. Although Murchinson turns to attacking Kerry specifically, doesn't this line of reasoning apply to any Democratic candidate? Presumably any candidate who loved their country would chose to set this out, and the fact that we've had 10 candidates running for the Democratic ticket shows the depravity of the Democratic Party.
That is, of course, if you believe that President Bush has done a good job on the war on terror. If you believe he's done such a good job, that to criticize him is a willful act of blindness stemming from a disdain for America. I don't. I think President Bush has done good in some areas (small ones), but for the most part he has not handled the post September 11th world very well at all. His invasion of Iraq in particular appears to have been a blunder in a number of ways (the rationales for the war have crumbled like crumb cake, they insufficiently planned for victory, and so on).
I mean if you thought President Bush was doing a bad job, well, wouldn't it be your patriotic duty to in a democratic fashion remove him from power?
In other news, those of you who read yesterdays article on David Brooks might be interested in James Pinkerton's take on the article from Salon.
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